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I worked in hospitals for years. Trust me, their ICU beds were gone on day 2.
Do you think any of those 10,000 beds were filled? Or did they move everyone out to make room for these guys?
As Joe Biden says, “Come on man....think”
This stuff is happening while the rest of the hospitals business goes on. You guys think this is happening in a vacuum. Babies are born. Heart stents are put in. Kidneys are transplanted. Stuff cannot wait.
Do you think they have EXTRA rooms for that stuff?]
I think the hospital system in the US would roll over just as fast.
Yes a ton of money has been injected. And what will they do with it? Go out an buy new equipment for ICU facilities?
Again, think this through. What are they going to buy? And from where?
Do you think there is a factory in the US pumping out hospital beds, vents, telemetry systems, and dialysis machines?
Do you think they will magically come up with staff to build out, furnish, and then come up with doctors and especially nurses?
Why do you think money is going to solve this?
Finally...if a similar situation happens in the US how long do you think the hourly staffs at any hospital are going to stick around? Do you think the $12 an hour transport person is going to see bodies stacked up in the morgue and think “his” life and his family’s life is worth THAT?
They will hit the road so fast your head will spin. Clerical staff, phlebotomists, transport folks, the technicians who fix the equipment, and even the cafeteria people will simply fade into the woodwork.
Think of an army without any privates or corporals. Except you cannot shoot them for desertion.