It's a hospital I've used before. They've never had this issue, pre-covid. Their staffing levels have not been magically cut. They just have too many patients relative to the number of patients they had pre-covid, because of covid patients.
Not necessarily. Due to COVID, they changed how they allocate patients. Many hospitals have an entire COVID wing, where each person gets their own room (rather than two or even four patients per room). They also have fewer patients per nurse (rather than seven patients per nurse, it might only be two). The staff have so much protective gear that to even go to the bathroom requires a 30 minute sequence of disinfecting, disrobing, pooping, robing, and infecting (or something thereabouts). So while a hospital may have had X capacity before COVID, due to the special nature of COVID patients, the capacity has dropped to well below X.
There was no vaccine mandate at the time.
From what I understand, most large hospitals have had one - typically to have both shots by October 1st. Also, a lot of nurses have been quitting due to burn out. Apparently, it is kind of soul crushing to be a nurse right now.
But it's ridiculous for you to claim it's the intubating which is killing people rather than the Covid. Intubation is a last case scenario. It happens at the point where but-for intubation your likelihood of death is nearly 100%. What a fucking absurd take from you.
I feel fairly confident that this is what is happened. Before the pandemic started, I became aware of an organization of doctors that were working to get intubation out of hospitals because of the absurdly high fatality rate. To be intubated, you need a cocktail of extremely dangerous drugs to be put into a coma. You are almost assured to get pneumonia from bacteria that grows on the tubing. Improperly calibrated devices can actually do permanent damage to the lungs. And at the time, it was suggested that 1 in 4 people who become intubated did not survive. These doctors believed that intubation was extremely dangerous and life threatening, and there were other options in many cases (such as negative pressure ventilation).
Mind you, this was before the COVID thing ever started. When I heard that they needed ventilators, I kept thinking back to this article I read. Then it turns out that everything they suggested happened and more - for COVID patients, 90% will not survive intubation. The worst part is that intubation isn't even called for with COVID, since it is a failure for the hemoglobin to bind with oxygen that is the problem. The lungs are fine. That's why doctors were suggesting that COVID more resembled high altitude sickness than the flu.
Now, you say that it only people knocking on death's door that are being intubated, but that's not true. I've seen people who have been awake and talking on their phones, even tweeting before intubation. You don't usually intubate people who can operate a phone. Instead, hospital policy is to intubate when the blood oxygen level reaches a specific point - but again, these people have working lungs. They are conscious and operating phones. It's not a problem with their lungs. There was one guy who was screaming and had to be held down to be intubated - explain to me why they need to intubate a guy who's lungs work enough to scream.
No, intubation is actually killing people. It is being misused and it is what is causing the spike in deaths, not COVID. If they stopped intubations tomorrow, COVID deaths would all but disappear. This may shock you to find out, but people are only dying in hospitals. Nobody is finding dead bodies in homes. They are dying in hospitals. They are dying in elder care facilities. The places where they intubate. You are 37 times more likely to be diagnosed with COVID in a hospital than at a general practitioners office. The early spike in deaths last year was entirely due to New York City's practice intubating early (two-thirds of all COVID deaths in the first half of 2020 was in NYC and the surround area) where most of the rest of the country still didn't have that many ventilators.
She didn't die of Covid dude. There is no covid protocol for her burial, it's just a backlog of bodies.
There's still a line. The backlog is due to COVID policies.
There IS a giant influx of deaths. We count this. We've always counted this. The number of deaths is up enormously. There is no getting around that fact. I've seen people try to argue it's the lockdowns themselves which caused the increase in deaths but there is no escaping the 100% true fact we do have more deaths right now. Period. ANY objective standard which measures death rates is in fact showing more people dying.
We do have more deaths now, but not everywhere equally. Many states have lower mortality this year than last. Minnesota, for example, is basically at 0% excess mortality in 2021. New York is on track for no excess mortality so far.
Florida is probably the worst one, with expected mortality for 2021 being 145,513 and the reported deaths being 170,937 - an increase of 25,424 deaths. Seems like a lot, but Florida has 25 million people in it. 25k deaths represents 0.1% of our population. Texas is similar. 29k deaths but a population of 29 million, so the absolute increase in deaths still hovers around 0.1% of the population. Basically it means that 1 extra person per 1000 is dying.
And these are not the healthy individuals. I know because every time someone under the age of 50 dies, they write an article about it - they try to hide it with Facebook angles, but when you see pictures of the people dying, none of them have necks. That's because they are so fat that their heads looks like it is growing out of their shoulders like a pimple. Number one indicator that COVID will get you? Being intubated (which all these articles mention). Number two? Not having a neck.
I don't know about the rest of Florida, but my local hospital has been bragging in the newspaper about how many people they've intubated/murdered. "Oh, it's so bad here. Yesterday, we had to intubate three people." At this point, the best way to survive COVID is to literally not go to a hospital.
And we have to assume that some of the increase in deaths is due to vaccine-caused ADE. The people in the hospitals right now, according to multiple nurse whistleblowers, are all vaccinated. They don't have COVID. They have blood clots. When they tell you that 95% of the people hospitalized have been unvaccinated, that was using data from a time span starting in January, when literally nobody had vaccinations. Even with the way they message the numbers (you count as unvaccinated until two weeks after your second shot, so many hospitalized that are vaccinated are counted as unvaccinated), if you look only at recent data, the vaccinated are outnumbering the unvaccinated. Israel is a place that is quite vocal about this happening.
Man, it sure would be ironic if the increase in deaths were due to this rushed vaccine using untested new technology... did I say ironic? I mean predictable.