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No - we didn't go back to normal. We learned from it and made changes. Why do people think that 2019 was normal?
When we are talking about if a company should force employees and consumers into unsafe environments, yes the analogy works.
What's the point of elected or appointed experts if regular folks can "interpret" the data themselves to fulfill their own confirmation bias? Politics always get involved but that doesn't excuse people and politicians who reject expert guidance for their own convenience or political position. And there were some confusing and contradictory statements coming from the CDC but again, I followed the guidance and the law. It wasn't too hard and didn't require me to do my own research because I had the best scientists and doctors already on the case for me.
It doesn’t take an expert or very much data to know that developing something that quickly and injecting something into your body with hardly any testing and zero long term data is not the best idea. And that has nothing to do with politics either.
Weird, because I remember overstuffed hospital wards filled with covid patients, routine medical services being unavailable due to the resulting healthcare shortages, and refrigerator trucks filled with dead bodies lining the streets.
If you want to use vaccinated/unvaccinated as the end-all be-all metric, you need to deprioritize the unvaccinated in healthcare settings, blocking them from hospitals if necessary. If you want to go back to "normal", that means a stroke victim won't die in a hallway because unvaccinated covid patients are taking up all the ICU beds.
”Deprioritize”. What a sick way to think about another human
Not for any other “vaccine” in history.
Please provide me some data on how many non-covid patients died because hospitals were full and they couldn't get treatment.
History is made every day.
The fact is that the vaccine lowers risk of hospitalization incredibly, by a factor of ten. If we want "normal", we simply cannot have a healthcare system that's collapsed by unvaccinated patients. Unvaccinated covid patients are less likely to have a good outcome, and patients who are less likely to have a good outcome are depriotizied. Again, that's simply triage.
Great question, seems our Government has way too much influence over peoples day to day lives. I followed the guidance as too, until they went too far. No problems with masks, I love the vaccine, but forcing those things on people once the vaccine was available was the end of compliance from me. Individual at that point could protect themselves, but people always want the Government to take care of them.
Impact of Hospital Strain on Excess Deaths During the COVID-19 ...
This report describes excess deaths from hospital strain from ...
Alabama man dies after being turned away from 43 hospitals as covid packs ICUs, family says
The family of Ray DeMonia, 73, is urging people to get vaccinated after dozens of hospitals in three states were too overrun with covid-19 patients to treat him.
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People Without COVID Are Dying Because Hospitals Are Full of Unvaxxed Patients
The daughter of an Iowa man who died after waiting two weeks for a hospital bed blames unvaccinated COVID patients for “clogging” hospitals.
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All I see is a few anecdotal stories and some studies claiming a certain number of deaths are possible. No actual data on how many have died because they couldn't get treatment in time and died.Impact of Hospital Strain on Excess Deaths During the COVID-19 ...
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Alabama man dies after being turned away from 43 hospitals as covid packs ICUs, family says
The family of Ray DeMonia, 73, is urging people to get vaccinated after dozens of hospitals in three states were too overrun with covid-19 patients to treat him.People Without COVID Are Dying Because Hospitals Are Full of Unvaxxed Patients
The daughter of an Iowa man who died after waiting two weeks for a hospital bed blames unvaccinated COVID patients for “clogging” hospitals.
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I gave you a study that used actual excess deaths during covid relative to ICU capacity to create a general model and stories of people in Alabama, Iowa, and Texas who died because there was no hospital space to show that it actually happens and isn't some hoax.
I believe it happened, not at any great scale. Also, excess death is not the same thing as death because a hospital is full. I'm not an anti-vaxxer covid denier, but the hospitals being overrun and causing widespread triaging or turning people away were entirely overblown by the media. Did it happen, yes, did it happen as it did in Italy, no it did not. That study does not use any actual numbers, just estimates, and doesn't provide info on the actual reality of how many people have died due to hospital overflow. It's also from the middle of 2021. You'd think if this was as widespread an issue as people are saying, we'd have some hard data.
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In the first wave when this all started, there were lots according to the media and photos and videos at the time. I would like to see some data on that too as well as for the US.
The media focus has found new things to talk about. So companies aren’t about to be dragged over the coals for doing something completely reasonable.
We get it. You are free to lock yourself in and wear your mask alone while driving. WE GET IT. The rest of us will move on with life.
That’s a really poor argument considering how skewed the average age in Italy is on top of the amount of people in overall poor health and/or smoke. But please …continue.….
If you prefer to follow the science. The CDC FINALLY admitted recently that 70 percent of ALL covid deaths were people with AT LEAST 4 co-morbidities. This was a pandemic of the unhealthy, PERIOD!