Amish Covid | Full Measure

[justme]

pacer insertions used to spend the night, have a pacer check in the morning, dressing change, make sure everything is ok, before sending them home.
now? there are no beds for overnight stays. either they have to be capable of coming back to the office the next day for the dressing change and the pacer check, or the insertion is postponed.
there are no beds for elective procedures. even if that elective procedure is necessary.

[Josh]

If I needed to go to the hospital, there isn’t a crisis to get care. This entire thing is a made up fake crisis, and you should rethink why you want to believe in it so badly.

Do you still feel this way, Josh. Two men in our church need surgeries and they keep getting postponed. They needed them in September. Looks like February will be the earliest they can get in. Another man in our church works in the ER. He was mostly caring for Covid ER patients because the hospital didn't have anyone else to care for them.

Yes, I still do think this. There are staffing shortages widely across many industries (including hospitals), but covid is not to blame, nor are people to blame for being unvaccinated or not doing things like avoiding attending church.

One of our local hospitals here issued a statement saying they were reducing capacity to 80% out of a desire to avoid having to hire more / pay more wages.

I have relatives who work in hospitals. Entire floors are closed down. And threatening to fire workers who are unvaccinated doesn’t relieve staffing shortages.

This is 100% the fault of hospital management who has had 2 years to increase staffing and has failed to do so.

[Josh]

pacer insertions used to spend the night, have a pacer check in the morning, dressing change, make sure everything is ok, before sending them home.
now? there are no beds for overnight stays. either they have to be capable of coming back to the office the next day for the dressing change and the pacer check, or the insertion is postponed.
there are no beds for elective procedures. even if that elective procedure is necessary.

When you threaten to fire 30% of your workers, keep cutting staff, and refuse to hire or raise wages, this is what happens.

Interestingly, the prices paid with medical bills sure haven’t gotten cheaper. Hospitals simply are getting away with providing a lot less - and charging more money for it.