Judging by this headline, you might come to the conclusion that Ontario’s hospital system is mere moments away from a dreaded “last resort” stage where people are triaged like the wounded in a war zone. Get a little further into the story, and you have to wonder how a journalist can so cavalierly pass off speculation as if it were historical fact.
Hospitals are working flat out….transferring hundreds of patients from hot spots to communities with extra space, cancelling non-urgent surgeries to free up 700 critical care beds, and redeploying nursing and other health-care staff.
In Ontario, “we’re moving patients like absolute crazy; we’re surging like absolute crazy,” one critical care specialist said.
If you’re going to throw around the word “crazy” it would be helpful to define it. As anyone who is familiar with decades of hallway medicine in Canada’s health care non-system would know, crazy is nothing new. In any institution in which price signals and free markets are allowed to function, working flat out to meet rising demand is normal and expected. But in a centrally planned system, it’s evidence of failure.
If you get to paragraph 13, there’s this bit of news that for some reason was missed by the burial crew:
The number of deaths has averaged around 30 a day for several weeks, a dramatic drop from the peaks of wave one and two, when Canada saw the highest rates of nursing home deaths globally.
Those “ICU’s are overflowing…run for the hills I’m watching on TV now…..do the math! For just Alberta alone, population 4.5 million today, there are 1100 ICU beds Province wide, of which 92 are currently being used (all old folks ’cause killing off people collecting CPP and OAS is a good thing) and in the hospital 420 beds out of 8000+ available Province wide, does not a Pandemic make. Funny, stats for “just the flu” are non existent. Wonder where it went?
The stats are Alberta Health stats from: https://www.alberta.ca/stats/covid-19-alberta-statistics.ht
Remember….all the test animals died, you’re the guinea pig now, when you take “The Jab”.
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This
I worked health care as a technician for many years thru out the hospital.
*No bed admits* were the patients backlogged in ER. It occurred often
ICU was often filled to max. It happened in waves. Occasionally during flu season.
This is not new. But, hey, it helps with the fear mongering narrative.
Thats because treatment has improved dramatically.
Whatever, twat.
Ivermectin or HCQ is “treatment”, fake vaccines aren’t.
Here in CA … our leftist leaders were transferring lots and lots and lots of illegal aliens walking across the border … from the overwhelmed border hospitals all the way up to the SF Bay Area and into my counties hospitals. Check the nationality of your “overwhelmed” ICU patients …
“Crazy” is the new “awesome”
Words rendered meaningless by fools and their shopworn narratives.
Epiphany! Epic! Excelsior!
Excremental erroneous etymology.
Enervating, eh, wot?
My wife is a long term cancer patient, getting treatment monthly.
Had monthly treatment at major Ont hospital today. Parking was beautiful as surgeries were cancelled. Hospital was quiet as hardly any patients. In cancer ward, very few patients. Nurses said its been like this for a while now. Wife says to me, its because they stopped doing cancer screening so no shit that there are few new patients for treatment.
Yup.
Last year, I was scheduled for a biopsy late in May. It got bumped 2 months thanks to the “plague” and I had the procedure in July. There weren’t many people in the waiting room at the time.
Fortunately, the results were good. Still, I could have done without the anxiety of waiting to get into the clinic and waiting to find out.
A few months later, I had a follow-up ultrasonic exam. I didn’t have to wait long at the clinic because there weren’t too many people ahead of me.
But sacrifices have to be made, right? (Uh-huh…..)
BA, my wife just received the news from a biopsy yesterday, it was not good news. My one concern other than her immediate health is just how fucking long the bureaucratic ass holes in the medical profession will be taking to actually treat her. We had one case of the whu who flu in hospital in my area in a hospital that serves a population base of about 160 thousand. Why would we need to cancel needed surgeries and other treatments. Apparently we have a small baby boom on our hands.
I’m sorry to hear about your wife.
I was quite prepared for bad news from the test, but it was the waiting for when the biopsy could be done that drove me up the wall. I got runaround from the clinic, partly because the staff didn’t know when it could start doing them again.
Give me a time and I can work around it.
I am very sorry to hear this, vowg. Keeping my fingers crossed that she will be treated quickly. As B A mentioned, the waiting can be the hardest part.
Vowg … I’m praying for your wife. And for the Canadian “Free” Health care system. My wife was saved by the US system … because of her regular and rigorous mammograms … that picked up a milk duct irregularity … long before a lump ever developed.
“…decades of hallway medicine in Canada’s health care non-system… is… evidence of failure.”
So expect more of the same, good and hard, until when? Decades. Its really sobering to see what people will put up with. You’d think someone would start a movement or something.
Contumely, apparently they will put up with a lot as long as they under under the delusion that they are not paying for it.
This is exactly it. Plus the moral posturing that goes along with our universal(ish), public health scare system.
Back on January 11th, one of Ontario’s well-paid Nostradami on our so-call Scientology Table promised us “a tsunami of death”.
I’ve been a health analyst for 30 years, can’t say I’ve never seen that term, but I’m not a PhD.
Since then, the deaths have climbed to 15 from 100…