NY Times cries ‘Wolf’
By Stan Szymanski
In ‘Covid Overload: U.S. Hospitals Are Running Out of Beds for Patients ‘ (https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/27/health/covid-hospitals-overload.html ) the November 27, 2020 New York Times (NYT) article by Reed Abelson, the author ‘cries wolf’ in regard to the virus situation. Ms. Ableson claims that ‘hospitals are facing a crisis-level shortage of beds and staff to provide adequate care for patients’. This cry, of course, feeds into the need for the pharma industry to come to the rescue to provide the country with an untested mRNA vaccine laden with ‘unestablished nanotechnology’ https://www.encouragingangels.org/new-blog/2020/12/20/xxu2ini4cysyzsr8ir1s2ek5ieytnf
Is this a valid cry for help or is it one designed to garner attention and sell the wares of the wolf?
I believe that The Lord led me to a specific article to test the thesis of the above NYT article. Yesterday, I found an interesting website known as ‘Becker’s Hospital Review’. I found a novel page titled ‘COVID-19 hospitalizations by state: Dec. 23 (https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/public-health/number-of-covid-19-hospitalizations-state-by-state-july-15.html) by Mackenzie Bean. In this update Bean related the details of The Atlantic's COVID Tracking Project. From the above Becker’s Hospital Review page:
’The Atlantic's COVID Tracking Project compiles data directly from the websites of local or state public health authorities. When data is missing from the websites, it supplements available numbers with information from official news conferences. Data was last updated Dec. 20, Dec. 21 or Dec. 22, depending on the state.
States are listed alphabetically. Not all states report both cumulative and current totals.’
According to Bean, ‘California has the most COVID-19 patients hospitalized in the U.S., according to the COVID Tracking Project’. A report from each of the 50 states is included on Becker’s page. Here are a few examples from various parts of the country of the current reporting of hospital bed capacity that Becker’s reported:
Alabama
Current: 2,527
Cumulative: 31,305
State's hospital bed capacity: 15,278
California
Current: 18,961
State's hospital bed capacity: 72,511
(Note California did not report a ‘cumulative’ number of virus cases)
Florida
Current: 5,634
Cumulative: 61,279
State's hospital bed capacity: 54,744
Kansas
Current: 630
Cumulative: 6,267
State's hospital bed capacity: 9,659
Maine
Current: 185
Cumulative: 985
State's hospital bed capacity: 3,400
Interesting, isn’t it? California has 18,961 ‘Current’ cases and a stated hospital bed capacity of 72,511 or an overall hospital bed occupancy rate of 25.3% (18,961/72,511=.253). Maine has 185 ‘Current’ cases and a stated hospital bed capacity of 3,400 or an overall hospital bed occupancy rate of 5% (185/3,400=.05).
I am no mathematician, however, if you simply add all of the states’ ‘current’ cases and divide them by the sum total of the reported number of available hospital beds in each state you get an average percentage of hospital occupancy per bed available. When I did my calculation for all 50 states (I am not a statistician and these results have not been audited; check the math for yourself), I get this result: The average occupancy per hospital bed available in the United States is approximately 14.6% as of December 23, 2020.
If this is true, is the NYT saying that once our hospitals on average in the U.S., get to just under 15% capacity that all hell starts breaking loose with claims of: hospitals running out of beds, a shortage of nurses (up to one quarter out sick) due to numerous nurses testing ‘positive’ for the virus, a lack of PPE (personal protective equipment) and more.
From the NYT article... ‘Even if hospitals in some cities appear to have enough physical space, or can quickly build new units or set up field hospitals, staff shortages offset any benefit of expansion.
“Beds don’t take care of people; people take care of people,” said Dr. Marc Harrison, the chief executive of Intermountain Healthcare, a sprawling system of hospitals and clinics based in Salt Lake City.’...
So if a state like California (25.3% state occupancy) or even the highest on 12/23/20, Arizona, with 28.3% occupancy still has a margin of almost 75%, can’t the state regulatory bodies inform people in public service announcements where to go to get help if certain hospitals are at capacity? Can’t the state regulators kindly ask doctors and nurses who are sitting on their hands in the outlying areas to go to the busy hospitals where they are actually needed?
As Dr. Marc Harrison stated above (and in the NYT article), “Beds don’t take care of people; people take care of people”. Another way of saying that might be to say that ‘we have 100 beds in this hospital but only enough staff to actually care for beds with 50 people in them’. If that is the case, and ‘staff shortages’ are already a known issue, again, why aren’t human assets (i.e. nurses, doctors, technicians etc.) being paid for with some of the emergency money that is going to big phama and redeploy these human assets from where they are not being utilized from low occupancy states (like Arkansas 7.5% state occupancy) to nearby Alabama who state Covid occupancy is double (16.5%)? Couldn’t some human assets from Oregon (8.6% occupancy), for example, be redeployed to be of some assistance to California (25.3%)?
During the catastrophic events of 9/11, first responders, construction workers and people who just wanted to help from most states in the nation converged on New York City, to do what we in the USA do better than anyone else in the world: to offer help to people who are in the worst period of their lives. We did it for ourselves in 9/11, we did it with the rebuilding of Europe with the Marshall plan, also with the occupation and reconstruction of Japan after the nuclear attacks and so many more times after earthquakes, tornadoes and tsunamis around the world. And here we are now in the midst of the greatest health crisis (the Wuhan ‘Covid-19’ virus), and what Gerald Celente calls the ‘Greatest Depression’ (https://usawatchdog.com/greatest-depression-already-started-gerald-celente/) and yet, the (mostly Democratic) governors of the United States of America will not allow people to travel across state borders without imposing a 14 day quarantine on anyone who does so (https://www.health.pa.gov/topics/disease/coronavirus/Pages/Travelers.aspx). These ‘officials’ not only have no sense of urgency to provide the redeployment of human capital where needed, they penalize anyone who has the ‘get up and go’ to do it themselves. These ‘officials’ have no sense when it comes to the only thing to get the economy back on its feet and that is people working and small businesses thriving. They have no sense to let loose the American ‘Can-Do’ attitude. In short, they have no sense at all.
Speaking of ‘no sense’ we can discuss what is being counted as Covid-19. First, ‘Minnesota lawmakers say coronavirus deaths could be inflated by 40% after reviewing death certificates (https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/coronavirus-death-certificates-minnesota-inflated?fbclid=IwAR3DjL2P3pUHPZSf85yYO-urdBet6SgrmbPnJ0Xnq70ihI1ADw3wq5DSvsg). If this is the case, just what is the real number of people who actually died from the Virus? At https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2020/12/22/why-has-the-flu-disappeared.aspx an article titled, ‘Why Has the Flu Disappeared?’ states the following : ‘The CDC reported that the percentage of respiratory specimens submitted for influenza testing that test positive decreased from greater than 20% to 2.3% since the start of the pandemic.’ Additionally: ‘The “COVID” deaths the CDC has been reporting are actually a combination of pneumonia, flu and COVID-deaths, under a new category listed as "PIC" (pneumonia, Influenza, COVID)’. And the final preface point of the article: ‘According to the CDC, flu cases began to decline in response to “widespread adoption of community mitigation measures to reduce transmission of SARS-CoV-2,” but why do such measures work to eradicate flu while COVID-19 continues to rise?’
So while we were were trying to conquer Covid-19 we mistakenly conquered the flu instead??? This makes no sense. What seems to appear is that the ‘officials’ who count the numbers of Covid cases changed the definition of what constitutes a Covid case. And the change in the count allowed the ‘Main Stream Media’ to continue to report large numbers of Covid cases when the actual count of -real- Covid cases are potentially -vastly- different and you might bet that they would be vastly lower.
Speaking of the ‘Main Stream Media’ that brings us back to to the New York Times article. One of the most well known and beloved of Aesop’s Fables is ‘The Boy Who Cried Wolf’. A synopsis of it is found here (https://fablesofaesop.com/the-boy-who-cried-wolf.html)...
(From the same website) ‘A bored Boy tending Sheep cried “Wolf!” to get attention. He did it again and people came. A third time and the Boy was ignored. Goodbye flock.
A liar will not be believed, even when telling the truth’.
In our case, the ‘boy’ is the ‘Main Stream Media’, like the New York Times who shout ‘Wolf’ and who actually carry the water for the ‘wolves’. The ‘wolves’ are those who look to attack the citizens of The United States of America. Don’t think you are under attack? Citizens of the US: 1) You were hit with a bio weapon (the Wuhan virus). 2) You are being told to take an untested mRNA vaccine that contains ‘Unestablished Nanotechnology’( https://www.encouragingangels.org/new-blog/2020/12/20/xxu2ini4cysyzsr8ir1s2ek5ieytnf ) . 3) If you are one of the owners of the small businesses that drive the economy of the U.S. you are being told to stay home and bankrupt yourself for the ‘greater good’. You and your family will not recover if things don’t change. Quickly. The population of the the wolves include at least (most likely more than) one foreign government. When they look at you they see a bag a of groceries or a carcass depending on what stage of extinction you are in.
Upon examination of what we have looked at in this writing, can we really say that we believe that the information put forth in the November 27, 2020 NYT article by Reed Abelson is the whole story and that we should use it to allow it to influence our thinking and decision making? Or is it subterfuge to hide the wolves and their intentions until you are so unsuspecting and weakened from dining on disinformation that when they are so close, even at your dining room table, that you can’t recognize that it is you who is for dinner.
©️2020
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Stan Szymanski (nor Encouraging Angels) is not a medical doctor. This is not medical advice. In all matters pertaining to the health and care of a human being consult a medical doctor. This is not legal or financial advice. Consult appropriate professionals in those fields for that type of advice.
