BA.2 surge hitting US in April/May

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Anonymous wrote:Man lots of deluded people here. Two months ago hospitals around me were collapsing under the weight of "mild" omicron cases.

Lots of people who died were 30 thru 60. LOTS!

Indeed, insane how quickly memory fades. We pretty much didn't have hospitals available in my area. Military helping out in hospitals. People dying for non-covid related reasons because they couldn't get care.
BA2 is causing a major increase in hospitalization in the elderly and under 5s again in the UK. Record hospitalizations for the elderly since vaccines became available - even though they are much more vaxxed and boosted than we are. If BA2 takes off here, and it looks like it will, we are looking at a more deadly wave than BA1 due to the longer interval since the booster and vaccinations.

Where the heck did this happen??

Lots of places, including some highly vaccinated states like Rhode Island. Deployment of military medical personnel into "New York, New Jersey, Ohio, Rhode Island, Michigan and New Mexico", on top of National Guard activation there and in many other states. https://www.cnbc.com/2022/01/13/omicron-biden-deploys-military-medical-personnel-to-hospitals-in-six-states.html
Hospital workers were beside themselves as they had to leave people untreated and in some cases dying in the waiting rooms and hallways. In my state, there was something like an emergency standard of care declaration where you weren't able to sue if you received substandard care.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Man lots of deluded people here. Two months ago hospitals around me were collapsing under the weight of "mild" omicron cases.

Lots of people who died were 30 thru 60. LOTS!

Indeed, insane how quickly memory fades. We pretty much didn't have hospitals available in my area. Military helping out in hospitals. People dying for non-covid related reasons because they couldn't get care.
BA2 is causing a major increase in hospitalization in the elderly and under 5s again in the UK. Record hospitalizations for the elderly since vaccines became available - even though they are much more vaxxed and boosted than we are. If BA2 takes off here, and it looks like it will, we are looking at a more deadly wave than BA1 due to the longer interval since the booster and vaccinations.

Where the heck did this happen??

My husband works at a DMV hospital, and his group covers a bunch of them. They were not overwhelmed. There was some very, very limited delays of some non emergency cases, out of an abundance of caution and for maybe 2 weeks. There were some some additional covid patients in ICUs, but it was not overwhelming. This was allegedly happening in some places, but not throughout the DMV hospitals-- there is a link between high vaccination rates in adults and lower hospital admissions (bc the vaccines largely prevent severe disease in most cases'). The demographics in Michigan and their hospitals, for example, are different.

It happened in my highly vaccinated state. "allegedly happening in some places". Shut up!

[Anonymous]

Happened at numerous hospitals in Maryland: University of MD, Johns Hopkins, Hopkins Bayview, Lifebridge health, Carroll County, Upper Chesapeake, Anne Arundel Medical Center, to name just a few. Hospita ER’s were on re-route multiple times.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Man lots of deluded people here. Two months ago hospitals around me were collapsing under the weight of "mild" omicron cases.

Lots of people who died were 30 thru 60. LOTS!

Indeed, insane how quickly memory fades. We pretty much didn't have hospitals available in my area. Military helping out in hospitals. People dying for non-covid related reasons because they couldn't get care.
BA2 is causing a major increase in hospitalization in the elderly and under 5s again in the UK. Record hospitalizations for the elderly since vaccines became available - even though they are much more vaxxed and boosted than we are. If BA2 takes off here, and it looks like it will, we are looking at a more deadly wave than BA1 due to the longer interval since the booster and vaccinations.

Where the heck did this happen??

Lots of places, including some highly vaccinated states like Rhode Island. Deployment of military medical personnel into "New York, New Jersey, Ohio, Rhode Island, Michigan and New Mexico", on top of National Guard activation there and in many other states. https://www.cnbc.com/2022/01/13/omicron-biden-deploys-military-medical-personnel-to-hospitals-in-six-states.html
Hospital workers were beside themselves as they had to leave people untreated and in some cases dying in the waiting rooms and hallways. In my state, there was something like an emergency standard of care declaration where you weren't able to sue if you received substandard care.

Ok Drama Llama. You specifically stated that people died because they couldn’t get care. That article does not support your insane assertion at all. That article states that the federal government sent personnel into hospitals to keep them staffed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Happened at numerous hospitals in Maryland: University of MD, Johns Hopkins, Hopkins Bayview, Lifebridge health, Carroll County, Upper Chesapeake, Anne Arundel Medical Center, to name just a few. Hospita ER’s were on re-route multiple times.

And? Reroute is not people dying in the hallways.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Happened at numerous hospitals in Maryland: University of MD, Johns Hopkins, Hopkins Bayview, Lifebridge health, Carroll County, Upper Chesapeake, Anne Arundel Medical Center, to name just a few. Hospita ER’s were on re-route multiple times.

And? Reroute is not people dying in the hallways.

Reroute is people waiting in hallways, and dying in ambulances on the way to distant hospitals.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Happened at numerous hospitals in Maryland: University of MD, Johns Hopkins, Hopkins Bayview, Lifebridge health, Carroll County, Upper Chesapeake, Anne Arundel Medical Center, to name just a few. Hospita ER’s were on re-route multiple times.

And? Reroute is not people dying in the hallways.

Reroute is people waiting in hallways, and dying in ambulances on the way to distant hospitals.

Ok find the news stories.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Happened at numerous hospitals in Maryland: University of MD, Johns Hopkins, Hopkins Bayview, Lifebridge health, Carroll County, Upper Chesapeake, Anne Arundel Medical Center, to name just a few. Hospita ER’s were on re-route multiple times.

And? Reroute is not people dying in the hallways.

Reroute is people waiting in hallways, and dying in ambulances on the way to distant hospitals.

Ok find the news stories.

They can’t. It’s all theoretical, not real.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Happened at numerous hospitals in Maryland: University of MD, Johns Hopkins, Hopkins Bayview, Lifebridge health, Carroll County, Upper Chesapeake, Anne Arundel Medical Center, to name just a few. Hospita ER’s were on re-route multiple times.

And? Reroute is not people dying in the hallways.

Reroute is people waiting in hallways, and dying in ambulances on the way to distant hospitals.

Ok find the news stories.

They can’t. It’s all theoretical, not real.

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Happened at numerous hospitals in Maryland: University of MD, Johns Hopkins, Hopkins Bayview, Lifebridge health, Carroll County, Upper Chesapeake, Anne Arundel Medical Center, to name just a few. Hospita ER’s were on re-route multiple times.

And? Reroute is not people dying in the hallways.

Reroute is people waiting in hallways, and dying in ambulances on the way to distant hospitals.

Ok find the news stories.

There were multiple articles at that time. Not sure how you missed them? I’m sure you’ll pick apart anything that’s posted, but here’s an example:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2022/01/04/hogan-declares-emergency-coronavirus/

[Anonymous]

Aren’t we all done with the know-nothing “experts” who closed school needlessly?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Happened at numerous hospitals in Maryland: University of MD, Johns Hopkins, Hopkins Bayview, Lifebridge health, Carroll County, Upper Chesapeake, Anne Arundel Medical Center, to name just a few. Hospita ER’s were on re-route multiple times.

And? Reroute is not people dying in the hallways.

Reroute is people waiting in hallways, and dying in ambulances on the way to distant hospitals.

Ok find the news stories.

There were multiple articles at that time. Not sure how you missed them? I’m sure you’ll pick apart anything that’s posted, but here’s an example:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2022/01/04/hogan-declares-emergency-coronavirus/

People are going to pick it apart because it doesn't support your argument that people died in ambulances or hallways.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I’ll need too dead bodies in the bread aisle of Giant before I go back to wearing a mask. Omicron wasn’t sht when I caught it.

+1 LOL

Wow, what a couple of morons.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Why are some of you people so obsessed with masks? Its creepy. They have become a religious talisman of protection.

As for me, I'm never doing any of this again, and I will actively fight it next time. I put up with this shit last time even though I disagreed with it, but this is stupid. Seriously I never thought I would find myself agreeing with republicans but here we are.

I don't think restrictions will happen though, bc politics....we have elections in november lol.

Why are some people so obsessed with being anti mask? Seriously- what’s the big deal about covering your goddamn mouth and nose during a pandemic in a public indoor space like a grocery store? Go about living your personal life as you please, see people indoors, risk getting covid or whatever you want, but what is the big deal about having some decency in a public, non social place like a supermarket where everyone - those who don’t care about covid, those who are being careful, the immunocompromised, the pregnant woman, the elderly, or the parent with a vaccine ineligible kid in tow- must shop?

Because I do not need to adapt to your mental health problems. I don't care about your anxiety and nerosis.

If you are in such a medically fragile state that you can't handle thr sniffles then you need to stay in your hyperbaric chamber. Not. My. Problem. Get some SSRIs.

This really sums it up.

No, it doesn’t “sum it up.” You’re both fools. Also, learn to spell.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Why are some of you people so obsessed with masks? Its creepy. They have become a religious talisman of protection.

As for me, I'm never doing any of this again, and I will actively fight it next time. I put up with this shit last time even though I disagreed with it, but this is stupid. Seriously I never thought I would find myself agreeing with republicans but here we are.

I don't think restrictions will happen though, bc politics....we have elections in november lol.

Why are some people so obsessed with being anti mask? Seriously- what’s the big deal about covering your goddamn mouth and nose during a pandemic in a public indoor space like a grocery store? Go about living your personal life as you please, see people indoors, risk getting covid or whatever you want, but what is the big deal about having some decency in a public, non social place like a supermarket where everyone - those who don’t care about covid, those who are being careful, the immunocompromised, the pregnant woman, the elderly, or the parent with a vaccine ineligible kid in tow- must shop?

Because they’re massive, spoiled toddlers. “WAAAAHHHH, I DON’T WAAAANNA!!!” (insert foot stomp here)