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Economy
Hospitals Are Empty & Going Broke As Normal Healthcare has been Suspended
2020-04-25
[ArmstrongEconomics] The lockdown was justified under the theory that Hospitals did not have the capacity to take care of the millions of people who would be struck down by the rapid coronavirus. All of that justification to lock down the nation never materialized. The ramifications have now turned to a denial of healthcare for the regular population and now doctors and medical staff are facing being laid off because normal health services are shut down. I personally could not even see a dentist because they were told to shut down by the American Dental Association.

Ironically, now hospitals are in danger of going bankrupt. We were told that we had to flatten the curve because there were not enough bed spaces. Then they did the subtle switch and the lockdown was justified until COVID-19 was eradicated. The interesting thing is how many institutions are sending us various materials because mainstream media will not cover it when it goes against their position of maintaining this lockdown. They are endangering our lives for political nonsense by refusing to report the truth.

Here is a letter
[in link]
from the Virginia Hospital & Healthcare Association to Governor Northam asking that these emergency orders preventing healthcare for normal people be terminated. Where the justification was to protect public health, this lockdown is now threatening public health and the leftist media refuses to report the truth.
Posted by:Clem

#12  Every flu season. Especially if a Republican is in office.
Posted by: Dale   2020-04-25 13:08  

#11  #5 Covid kills by causing a massive over-reaction...


This will be the real healthcare crisis to come out of this.
Posted by: charger   2020-04-25 12:03  

#10  Glenmore, sorry to hear about that. I'm fortunate with my dentist - I've known him for fifteen years when he was still at Boston University, so I'm certain he'd sign off of anything as an emergency, at least with me and a handful of other people.
Posted by: Raj   2020-04-25 11:05  

#9  My wife's respiratory tech called to check on her and said the hospital had prepared for a "surge", but it never happened..he says things are pretty quiet.
(She has been doing "tele-med" calls with her Doctors..)

San Diego,Ca.
Posted by: crazyhorse   2020-04-25 11:00  

#8  Ran, dentist was told that didn’t qualify as an emergency.
Posted by: Glenmore    2020-04-25 09:04  

#7  It's one ugly baby, and when the politicians all start saying "It's not my baby," the real fun will begin...
Posted by: M. Murcek   2020-04-25 08:32  

#6  Baby, bath water.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2020-04-25 08:14  

#5  Covid kills by causing a massive over-reaction...

Ironic eh?
Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2020-04-25 08:08  

#4  My dentist told me that if I have an emergency, just meet him at the office, as they are allowed to do emergency work. Whether he's got any staff to back him up is another matter.

It's well past time to end this 'mandatory closing of unessential business' bullshit; it never should have been enacted in the first place. Run every one of those SOB's out of town, starting with that fascist battleax in Michigan.
Posted by: Raj   2020-04-25 06:54  

#3  JERUSALEM’S HERZOG Medical Center has joined other Israeli hospitals in converting some of their units into special inpatient divisions for cases of COVID 19. According to HMC spokeswoman Ayelet Mishor, the 160-bed underground section of HMC will be reserved for coronavirus patients. This total separation from the rest of the hospital will protect other patients and will enable HMC to easily absorb coronavirus patients from Beilinson, Sheba and Rambam Medical Centers.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2020-04-25 04:24  

#2  Sorry to hear, Glenmore. Know that you're not alone, and that -- unbelievable as it sounds -- it's even worse for thousands in NY, CA and many other states.

Cancer patients have had essential surgeries put off because they're not deemed "urgent." Others have died needless deaths because care and resources were diverted to try to prolong the lives of nonagenarians by a few months. Probably as many of the latter have actually been killed by the practice of stuffing ventilator tubes down their throats as have seen their lives briefly prolonged.

An age of madness, hysteria, unreason. Hang in there and hope with the rest of us that reason will prevail soon.
Posted by: Lex   2020-04-25 03:49  

#1  Temporary dental crown broke but dentist not allowed to fix it, hope to not break or shift the exposed stub before being allowed to install permanent crown and have to do the whole expensive thing over.
Posted by: Glenmore    2020-04-25 00:40  

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