I have a number of relatives who work in the medical field and at the start they took this very, very seriously - seasonal flu kills thousands every year anyway, and they were expecting something on a worse scale.
Patients were in ICU, some died. Many more recovered - including the elderly and fatties. After three months or so there were no patients in ICU.
They agree it's overblown bullshit and are even voicing against vaccines.
Interesting. I'm getting mixed stories, on one hand I'm being told the hospitals are overflowing and doctors are being worked to death. On the other hand they're being kept under capacity and there seems to be a lot of them on extended leave, or not being utilised.
The hospitals I knew of were overwhelmed at the start - I now know it was mostly the panic stricken converging on them because they were coughing and sneezing. People were also lining up to get covid tests, adding more burden on the staff.
There were gravely ill people in ICU. Some hospitals down here cleared out general wards and even put up tents in the car parks. The tents were never used and while some covid patients were indeed put in wards they were never overrun as such. It wasn't anything like the Contagion movie.
In short, covid was pretty much done after three or so months.
The impression I got here was that everyone avoided the hospitals so they didn't catch the coof.
Also, they shut down virtually everything else, including cancer treatments. People died of treatable and operable cancers because "we might need the beds." Oh and the usual nursing home bullshit.
They even paid the private hospitals to shut down just in case they were needed for overflow.
Rare minority.
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