MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR

[Aragorn243]

We hear over the news the U.S health system is near collapse as are the medical staff with so many americans afflicted with the damn thing I really feel for you guys over there and the U.K.

No need to feel bad for us. We aren't the ones being locked in our home areas. You're getting very bad information, probably to keep you from complaining.

Life here is pretty much normal with two basic exceptions, you have to wear a mask whenever you go into a store and a lot of restaurants, and other entertainment facilities are closed down.

There is no near collapse of the health care system, in fact, a lot of nurses and doctors have been laid off as the politicians have decided that hospitals can no longer do non-emergency procedures so the space is available for the flood of covid patients that never materialize.

The media likes to find one hospital somewhere that is near capacity and go there and find all the nurses and staff that like to bitch and moan about everything and then portray it as normal when it isn't. Hospital in the next county has plenty of space, etc and the nurses there will tell you they have Covid patients but nothing out of the ordinary.

It's all politics, science isn't determining anything. You can easily see here the state of the US hospitals. No where near capacity, operating at 10-30% in most cases. COVID-19 hospitalizations by state: Dec. 23

And none of these show any emergency hospitals because there are none currently. Capacity can be nearly doubled if needed. Philadelphia for example has a full hospital just sitting there still fully equipped because it recently shut down and they have done nothing with it to prepare for anything.