>> >>
>>> >>>>> >>>>>> The news seems full of stories about hospitals
>>>>>> being overrun with Covid patients. Weren't there hospital
>>>>>> ships in a couple harbors last spring to provide more space
>>>>>> for sick people? New York City and San Francisco maybe?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Yes, New York had one but it did not work out well. Hospital ships are
>>>>> designed to treat battle wounds and similar disaster and don
>>>>> t work well with covid patients. Spaces are tight, little room for
>>>>> needed equipment.
>>>>>
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>>>>>
>>>>> also
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>>>> The Comfort was rapidly retasked to accept covid patient but DeBlasio
>>>> and crew couldn't figure out what to do with it, or the Javits
>>>> Convention Center which was outfitted at considerable expense. The
>>>> Times, of course, preferred to blame Trump rather than the ineffectual
>>>> city and state leadership.
>>>
>>> The simple fact is that the measures taken to flatten the curve worked and the
>>> number of hospital beds required rapidly declined. No one could predict that
>>> weeks ahead of time when these assets were deployed. It's far better to have
>>> them ready and not need them, instead of the other way around. >>
>> If we actually followed that curve we would have "let'r rip" all
>> summer and increased the herd immunity when this was easier to
>> control. Instead we put the virus to sleep all summer and when we came
>> back inside, it was still there waiting for us.
>> The curve we have with 2 humps and a valley looks nothing like the one
>> they said we should follow.
>>
>
>You are an idiot. We are in the worst condition in the world BECAUSE we >let it rip.
The problem with that theory is California has some of the toughest restrictions and has the most of the biggest problems, assuming I can believe the news. Unfortunately I suppose you can't believe the news because California is way down the list of per capita cases but they seem to be in places like LA where people can whine about it on camera more.