Officials warn status quo will 'overwhelm' health care system, as Dallas County reports 1,085 new COVID-19 cases

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[BusterDog]

“We need to do something to keep this under control,” Huang said. “The numbers we’re seeing, if we continue to increase at this rate, are going to overwhelm our system.”

[BusterDog]

This is happening because the media, local and state government officials, and the two national political parties feared the protestors and feared being called racist. They feared the mobs and the cancel culture. They tried to appease them.

They would not call out the protestors for engaging in unsafe behaviors during a novel virus pandemic. They would not say, "Sure, you can protest, but if you don't social distance during, if you don't wear masks during, and if you start looting, you will be dispersed and or apprehended quickly!"

So, quite understandably, good intentioned people, from all over the political spectrum, who had been told they had to social distance, wear masks, stay home, etc. and that they could not go to church, out to eat, shake hands, etc., people who were doing their very best to comply and support the community efforts, people who had lost jobs, opportunities, and businesses, decided, "To hell with it, if it's ok for them to protest, loot, and arson, then it's ok for me to do the things I want to do and I'm not going to comply with their orders, I don't believe a thing they say."

Now we will get to see whether or not our health care systems were ever going to be overwhelmed by it.

So, Dr. Huang, there is nothing that can be done at this point to put this virus under control. You blew it.

[VanShuyten]

When he demands 40,000 ventilators from Pres. Trump, then we’ll know he’s serious.

[ClearCase_guy]

We've been struggling to "flatten the curve" since late March. At no point has our healthcare infrastructure been overwhelmed. NY state was hit as hard as any state and they had hospital ships set aside for use during this pandemic and NY didn't use the ships. Didn't need the ships. Because their healthcare facilities were not overwhelmed.

Here it is July. And we're still in quarantine. Still desperately trying to "flatten the curve". Still panicking. And still not at all overwhelmed by the virus.

It's fear-mongering.

[A_Former_Democrat]

Or a hospital ship up the Trinity River

[ifinnegan]

You believe this sky is falling con?

[goodnesswins]

Soooo...I’m reading the common cold registers as Covid19...sooo they can take their numbers and shove the where the sun don’t shine.

[RebelTXRose]

Now that’s a thought!!

I’d rather hear from hospital CEO s about hospital capacity n patient numbers.

[ncalburt]

Spare me
the antibody count.
How many true icu admits with primary diagnosis .
the rest is pure double count bs .

[tennmountainman]

How many are in ICU and how many deaths are DIRECTLY due to COVID 19. Why do we never see these numbers anymore.

[dp0622]

The huge marches in nyc haven’t made the numbers go up.

Or maybe they did but since it was young folks they got it but didn’t show any signs.

[RummyChick]

from your state

Moxley2:45p, 7/1/20AG What a difference a few months makes. In late March, many of us were being forced to use PTO for one shift a week due to low census. Now I'm getting begged to come to work every night with huge shift bonuses.

Our census is running very high, very unusually high for the month of July. Our Covid volume hasn't spiked in terms of inpatient hospital stays, but we have many nurses and ancillary staff popping up as positive and who are on quarantine. Nurse staffing is becoming a huge problem.

This is the side effect of the virus I've been worried about more than the actual virus itself. We were at the point last night where we didn't have enough staff for the acuity of patients we were trying to take care of. I had a patient start bleeding from an arterial surgery site and was holding pressure while at the same time the bed alarm of a confused patient went off and no one was able to get into their room before she fell. All of us were taking patient loads beyond our usual staff grid. -----------------

Albert Canales @McHiPride For those of you that think this is a hoax, I was told my dad has to wait in the ambulance until their is room in the second hospital he has tried to enter. Was turned down by McAllen Medical due to room! So our first responders, can’t respond to other emergencies! Sad! Prayers!
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'Exposure to non-isolated patient and/or failure to properly don PPE. We aren't testing all patients. We've had many strokes and altered mental status patients turn up positive after a few days of being admitted to regular floor. Not using N95 on all patients although we probably should be. Still in mindset that Covid is cough, temp, groundglass opacities. I had to convince a doc to test a confused old lady the other night who had no other symptoms and she turned out to be positive. Our stroke unit has a lot of staff down. Makes sense when you think about endovascular complications. I'm begging them to make it a policy to test all admits but so far it's a no go. It is putting our staff at risk.":

[BusterDog]

“You believe this sky is falling con?”

I think it’s going to be bad, yes. I think in 6 weeks or so, people will be wearing masks and it won’t be because of a mandate.

How bad, I don’t know. Everything is politicized, even the science, and there is ineptitude and self serving foolishness at the highest levels of every public and private institution that we have.

[Theoria]

Sooner the virus spreads, the sooner we can move on. Better to do it now, instead of the fall.

[mrsmith]

“STAUS QUO...” the beuracracy’s stalwart defense...

[Theoria]

NY has more immunity due to earlier exposure. That is why they haven’t had the spikes from protest and riots.

[KTM rider]

Its a Virus Protection extortion racket.

It would not surprise me one bit if the Biotech Industrial Complex labs were sending out doses of COVID on the test swabs

if we dont give them absolute socialist control they will burn down everything

[ifinnegan]

Did you think the same thing in March?

[goodnesswins]

Oh...pulllleeaassseee...the only reason it will get worse is people wearing dirty masks, not getting out in the sun, and mostly the LIES about the numbers

[BusterDog]

“Sooner the virus spreads, the sooner we can move on. Better to do it now, instead of the fall.”

It may very well end up being that way in the long run. As the President calls it, “Going Herd.”

[BusterDog]

“Did you think the same thing in March?”

Yep.