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How is the biggest HMO on the West Coast currently handling CV 19 in its clinics and hospitals?

In late March of this year, it would have been easiler to get into the NSA or CIA than into any of this HMO’s hospitals, if you were a family member of a patient in a Hospital of this HMO>

If your loved one had a severe health problem or needed emergency surgery, you could not even go into the hospital with your loved one. You had to park in the parking lot and could not come into the hospital to be with your loved one. This was SOP for most hospitals in America and still is.

We had friends, who had dropped off relatives at the ER doors of this HMO and couldn’t see them again, until they were discharged. Even then the patients were brought out to the curb to be loaded into their family’s vehicle. The relatives could not go inside the hospital. Again, this was apparently SOP at hospitals across America.

All of these precautions were apparently based on the current data at that time on CV19 re transmission and so called lethality of CV19.

Even in mid August, rules re going into this HMO’s hospitals/clinics were very stringent. I was re scheduled for September for foot surgery.

The foot doctor wanted me to have some heavy duty pain pills so he ordered a small amount at their pharmacy in my home town. Again this was Mid August, 2 months ago.

We had to park at special signs and phone the pharmacy. They sent a pharmacy tech out to check my ids and HMO card. Then, he escorted me to the parking lot entrance. 2 RN’s did separate electronic temp checks, and I signed a note that I felt okay. Again my member card and California ID was checked. My wife had to stay in our car and was told she could not get out.

Then, I was escorted to what had become a huge waiting room. After about 10 minutes I was escorted to the pharmacy tech to get my rx. Then, the pharmacy tech escorted me to my car and my wife was still inside the car. Then, a uniformed security guard told me to follow him to exit the parking lot.

Flash forward to the 3rd week of September for my foot operation, and their CV 19 world had changed.

We went into the hospital via the parking lot, and we had 2 temp scams from big machines attached to the ceilings. Real RNs in that area told us that we could go to where my operation would be done. That was it. The temp checks at the door to the hospital.

Post op, my wife brought me down in a wheel chair. I was loaded into the car, my wife drove me home.

A couple of weeks later, we went back to the hospital to have my stitches removed. There were no RN’s manning the entrance. A security guard was there and told us to go on to where we were going. He said that the temp checks had been done. We did not hear the process that we heard before.

We walked unescorted to the foot clinic. After my stitches were removed we left. Again no escorts.

On 27 October, I went to our local HMO clinic for some lab tests. I had zero temp checks. I was just asked if I had a fever or didn’t feel good. I told them that I was fine. They gave me a disposable mask and that was it. No escorts to the lab. I went there and got into line like other patient. After about 10 minutes, five of us were called to go into the drawing station. I had to show my picture ID again.

After my blood was drawn, I left the lab unescorted and went to our vehicle. I asked the parking lot guard if I could leave our vehicle there for a few minutes, while we walked to a grocery store across the street. He said no problem and walked away. We brought our groceries, walked back to our car and said Hi to the security guard and left.

Unknown to us a friend had dropped off another friend at the local hospital (non HMO) at their ER doors. This hospital is about 6 blocks away as a sober crow can fly. Our friend, the driver could not go into the other hospital and drove home. She came back in a couple of hours to pick up the dropped off friend, post her procedure. Again no entrance to the hospital, the patient was wheeled out and loaded in our friend’s vehicle.

So what has changed at this major HMO re their Covid 19 precautions in less than 3 months?

Obviously, their real data/reality is totally different than the daily Covid B$ we are fed here on Free Republic, via the mediots and our Karens!

Why aren’t the patients at this huge HMO dropping and dying like flies after be exposed to the dreaded CV19?