Posts Made By: Rod Kaufman

Originally Posted by Brian McFarland

Oh please. The only reason nobody replied to any of those posts is because everyone was hiding under their desks in fear of being schooled by Richard.

I wonder if he's being represented by Lauren Boebert in (Rifle) Colorado:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnT_oawVywQ

It's so bad in Idaho now that, in addition to rationing care, the cases are are spilling into neighboring states like Spokane Washington and the latter is asking for federal help in dealing with it as they scramble to provide care to non covid cases. In Idaho, "94.69% of deaths with known race were White." CNN carried the story this evening of a brother of a registered nurse who refused to take the vaccine based upon something she read on social media and subsequently died from covid. The brother got vaccinated today "out of fear" and is now taking care of his sister's two small children. His mother is recovering from a medically induced coma after being intubated for covid and had to be told by him that her daughter had just died a few rooms down from hers...

"Health care workers are exhausted and angry. Some of Idaho’s coronavirus vaccines are expiring because they have sat unused for so long. And coronavirus case numbers and deaths continue to climb, putting the state among the worst in the nation for the rate of new COVID-19 diagnoses."
" there is no end in sight to the surge."
“The numbers continue to increase, and we expect them to continue to increase,” 
"Urgent surgeries have been placed on hold, some patients are being treated in hospital lobbies or field hospitals,"
"Nearly all of the new COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations and deaths have been among unvaccinated residents, the governor’s office said in a news release.

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/health/idahos-covid-outlook-is-dire-as-cases-continue-to-climb/

"Washington Gov. Jay Inslee (D) criticized neighboring Idaho’s leadership late last week, saying that Idaho Gov. Brad Little’s (R) policies were “clogging up” Washington’s hospitals."
“Today in my state, Washington citizens in many cases cannot get heart surgery, cannot get cancer surgery that they need, because we are having to take too many people of unvaccinated nature and unmasked, many of whom come from Idaho, and that’s just maddening frankly,” Inslee said in an MSNBC appearance on Friday.
“So we are calling for Idaho and the leaders there to lead and take some commonsense measures,” Inslee continued. “I’m disappointed the governor of Idaho has spent more time trying to reduce protection by reducing vaccine usage instead of concentrating on this, and then clogging up my hospitals.”
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/573379-washington-governor-to-idaho-officials-stop-clogging-up-my-hospitals

Idaho Coroner: "We're packing them in there"! But the Trumptoids won't stop: "You're making money off this!" "You're fear mongering"! "You're making this up"!
https://www.cnn.com/videos/health/2021/09/25/coroner-ada-county-idaho-covid-deaths-sot-ndwknd-vpx.cnn/video/playlists/coronavirus/

Originally Posted by Greg Shaffer

I dont doubt for a second there are hot spots for covid infections......how could there not be? That said, there are approx 6500 hospitals in the country and per the worldometer today approx 22,000 serious/critical cases. That works out to about 3.5 persons per hospital.....yet the media would have us believe there is a nationwide crisis. Sorry....the figures say there is some BS at work here.....

That's nuts to think you can cherry pick the entire hospital system of america and then divide the covid patients that are presently hospitalized to come up with a number that accurately represents acute covid care throughout the country.
Here's a properly formatted site that looks at acute covid care in individual states where it is obviously meaningful:
https://ourworldindata.org/covid-hospitalizations

Originally Posted by Richard Davis

Umm... just a refresher in grammar and logic .  

Referencing the entire hospital system of America as you called it, is the exact OPPOSITE of Cherry picking.  

LOL!  

Lol! How frigging stupid  can you be?! 

From today's report from 'The Hill":
"Coronavirus patients are flooding and straining hospitals across the U.S., particularly in Western states, where administrators are put in positions of needing to ration care as their facilities are pushed to their breaking points by the delta variant."
"Alaska this past week joined Idaho in adopting statewide crisis standards of care that provide guidance to health care providers making difficult decisions on how to allocate limited resources. Several hospitals in Montana have either activated crisis standards of care or are considering it as the state is pummeled by COVID-19.'
'As of Friday, the ICUs in Alabama, Georgia, Idaho, Kentucky and Texas all exceeded 90 percent capacity. The ICUs in Alaska and Montana, meanwhile, were 84 percent and 77 percent full, respectively, according to federal data."
“The vaccine deniers obviously in many of our minds are like really, really, really hurting like the whole system, whereas someone who has a heart attack is only attacking their own heart — they're not attacking everybody else's,” Kelen added."
“In a country as large as ours, that 25 percent minority can cause an awful lot of damage,” Biden said. “And they are causing a lot of damage.”
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/573897-more-hospitals-forced-to-ration-care-amid-delta-surge

Here they are again today: anti-masker anti vaxxer Trump supporters dressed in Trump outfits, as per Fox News, storming a food court screaming "my body! my choice!":
https://www.foxnews.com/us/anti-vaccine-mandate-protesters-storm-nyc-food-court

"COVID-19 hospitalizations hit new high in Idaho, health leaders worried about rising number of infected children"
"They expressed concerns about hospitalization rates, the mistreatment of health care workers and the rising number of children coming down with COVID-19."
https://www.ktvb.com/article/news/health/coronavirus/covid-hospitalizations-hit-new-high-in-idaho-health-leaders-to-hold-weekly-media-briefing-at-230-pm-live/277-93bbb5bb-4a32-4e8e-891a-76d79ff5c833