Here in Ohio Dr.Acton is our state health director on all of this. She is the one who does the news conferences with DeWine and has his ear. What she tells him goes.
Everytime she talks it’s with great drama in her voice. She sounds as though she’s ready to collapse in agony and depression. She sounds as though we are not heeding her warnings and we all just don’t understand the gravity of the situation. As a result she has the usual fan base on social media pearl clenchers as being the greatest heroine the state has ever seen.
Yesterday she talked about dorms and hotels being readied to act as ICU units. She has been spewing this kind of hype for weeks.
As of yesterday hospitals are at 60% capacity across the state, we have yet to reach 10 deaths, and are still well under 1000 cases. Meanwhile our economy is in a death spiral.
“Drama... spewing of hype...”
It is somewhat reminiscent of any given hurricane approach in the Southeast, with at least a week of “worst ever” hype.
“You will die” unless you follow the wildly premature and over-conservative direction given many days in advance, only to have 8 hours of gusty rain bands cross your area when the thing goes through.
At least the hurricane hype comes and goes in about a week, and only the bread and water disappear from store shelves. I’m sure the next hurricane preparation will add a run on TP.
I wish I could easily post pictures here. I drove by both Jewish Hospital in Kenwood and Bethesda North in Montgomery.
Both parking lots were nearly empty. Tents outside had their flaps on either end removed and the bunches of tables inside them were cleared of all the equipment that was there a couple of days ago.
Two weeks ago, Ohio supposedly had 100,000+ cases. Either 100,000 survived coronavirus without treatment AND without significant symptoms, or Dr Acton and the Idiot Gov Devine are in a competition to see who is the most stupid!