ICELAND - Pandemic of the unvaccinated
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You'll find that it's a global pandemic: some people will die while others are just damaged physically and/or financially, and that your odds of squeaking through - as well as protecting those around you - are better with the vaccine.
Calling it names doesn't change it. You can quibble about how many cases there actually are and how many people actually died from it but that's just fiddling while Rome burns.
Here are some headlines from the last 24 hours:
Lafayette "Local hospitals say their ICUs are at max capacity as COVID-19 cases continue to rise" (https://www.katc.com/news/coronavirus/local-hospitals-say-they-are-at-max-capacity-as-covid-19-cases-continue-to-rise)
Austin Texas "Urgent Action Needed from Community as Number of Staffed ICU Beds Reaches Critical Levels" (https://austintexas.gov/news/urgent-action-needed-community-number-staffed-icu-beds-reaches-critical-levels)
Baton Rouge "Baton Rouge children's hospital nears capacity, braces for surge in Covid cases ahead of the school year" (https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/30/us/baton-rouge-childrens-hospital-surge/index.html)
St. Louis "COVID patient surge raises concerns for ‘dangerous situation’ in St. Louis area hospitals" (https://www.bnd.com/news/coronavirus/article253118678.html#storylink=cpy"https://www.bnd.com/news/coronavirus/article253118678.html)
Miami "FL Virus Cases Soar, Hospitals Near Last Summer’s Peak" (https://www.jems.com/coronavirus/fl-virus-cases-soar-hospitals-near-last-summers-peak/)
Salt Lake City "Hospitals overwhelmed with COVID-19 patients, again" (https://www.abc4.com/news/local-news/hospitals-overwhelmed-with-covid-19-patients-again/)
San Antonio "San Antonio hospitals working to retain staff while saving lives amid spreading Delta variant" (https://www.kens5.com/article/news/health/coronavirus/hospitals-covid-fatige-nurses/273-db40103d-1986-437d-9995-ba0bc7ddc4f4)
Honolulu "As COVID-19 cases rise, Queen’s Medical Center asks FEMA for more nurses" (https://www.khon2.com/coronavirus/as-covid-cases-rise-queens-medical-center-asks-fema-for-more-nurses/)
Florida "Health First stopping all non-emergency surgeries to free up hospital space for COVID cases" (https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2021/07/30/health-first-stopping-all-non-emergency-surgeries-to-free-up-hospital-space-for-covid-cases/)
Washington state "COVID hospitalizations are increasing in Washington, as some hospitals struggle to transfer patients" (https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2021/jul/30/covid-hospitalizations-are-increasing-as-some-hosp/)
Sure it is. You're standing outside a burning house arguing about which fire hose to use instead of hooking one up....
..... because it's not your house.
The number of tested cases up to today in the US is reported as 35,724,154 at worldometers.info and 34,961,193 at coronavirus.jhu.edu - a difference of 2%.
The difference doesn't matter when you realize that both totals mean one person in 10 in the US has tested positive.
Another wave started a month ago, it is growing rapidly, and it's already the second worst in terms of daily new cases, with no signs of slowing down.
You seem to be one of those people who can't absorb the fact that prevention is the key because health care systems are only designed and funded for "normal" times. You're like the tourist standing on some foreign beach who thinks the tide has gone out when in fact it's the sign of a tsunami that you can't see yet. And you don't believe what the locals are telling you and your family.
What an extraordinary statement. What do you base that completely invalid notion on?
Your thinking seems to be that the speeding runaway bus is still three feet away. "No reason to panic folks."
From the first link:
"Both Our Lady of Lourdes and Oschner Lafayette General say they are at max capacity in their ICUs." Any extra patients won't have a bed, and there appears to be another covid wave starting, driven by the Delta variant.
From the second:
"In a joint statement by Ascension Seton, Baylor Scott & White and St. David’s Healthcare, the hospitals noted, “The latest COVID-19 spike is putting extraordinary pressure on our hospitals, emergency departments and healthcare professionals, and it has further challenged hospital staffing due to a longstanding nursing shortage.”" Elsewhere the article says they are down to 16 empty ICU beds in an area serving 2.3 million people.
In the third:
"In July alone, 62 children came into the emergency room and tested positive with Covid-19, with 58 of them coming to the hospital in the past two weeks, Nicole Terry, the communications manager for Franciscan Missionaries of Our Lady Health System, said Friday. In comparison, only 18 children came to the emergency room with Covid-19 in all of June, Terry said." Got that? Eighteen children with covid in all of June, 58 in two weeks in July.
In the fourth:
“We don’t want anyone to avoid care,” Zoller said. “But really we have to have that message out there that this is a dangerous situation. Our hospitals are very full and so we need to control the virus the best we can.”