More Omicron. Highest cases ever.

What will that mean, in terms of deaths? In terms of the more insidious "long covid" viral side effects of catching it, well I'm thinking this might be the worst part of it all. Sure, we're probably looking at a lower death rate, but with something as infectious as measles, well, this is gonna hit us hard. 
We're already seeing it with flight cancellations (so airplane companies, you know the ones who got billions to make it through Covid, are on bare bone staff, and so just a few people out with Covid sends the system crashing down) and even with the medical world. 



See here, a thread on hospitals in the US on divert. Not good, right?

Anybody else remember sometime last March when hospital admin across the country just mass fired like 50-80% of their nursing staff, hell, cut all staffing to the bone, then turned around and gave themselves bonuses as they worked from home? 

Well well well ...if it isn't the consequences of their own actions. We have beds, just no nurses. And the nurses we do have, I'm not sure most of them can legally vote yet.

Yeah, but there'll be no consequences because will the superrich in this country ever be punished even if they kill a lot of people? 
Still, the thread is worthwhile to let you know what's going on around the country. 

Minneapolis has a mobile morgue hanging out on hospital campus. No inpatient elective totals for the last 13 weeks. 12+ hour waits in ERs

Just great, wonderful..

Of course, that all seems like part of some grift, right? Something that might play into people's hesitancy to group Big Pharma into one idea and so not trust vaxxes because it's from Big Pharma [1]. 

I Houston area, lots of freestanding ERs are discharging people with significant pathology and telling them to go to another ER attached to a hospital because they need to be admitted and can't be turned away.

In the long run, it's usually the best thing for the patient, assuming the patient picks an hospital that has the service they need (which isn't always happening).

But, at that point, the freestanding ER should just be shut down if they don't have the capacity to stabilize these patients until an accepting facility is available.

Enough from me, just go read that thread. 
Another thread showing how omicron is different than delta. And more inside info and thoughts. Not sure what else to say, but it does look like this winter might be pretty bad. Seriously, get vaxxed out there. 




[1] (and also that lawsuit immunity thing, but also lawsuits can be BS because decent vaxxes like the Lyme disease one were sued out of existence when they were legit ones... pointing to another issue with our system). 
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