Loss of smell and taste is a known symptom that was around and had many explanations before “Covid.” The medical term is anosmia and dysgeusia and both had their own pages on health websites listing symptoms before 2019. Now it’s just a subjective symptom people can claim but no one can test for or prove. It is a way for the average person to join in on the hoax by convincing people they had or have “Covid.”
It’s mostly women who claim loss of taste and smell because they are more hypochondriac and attention-seeking by nature. I have seen people come to the ER claiming loss of smell/taste and then have a negative Covid test.
So which is it…. Are the tests not accurate or are people full of shit? Unfortunately, both are true.
I have not meant that loss of smell and taste is new. But I now heard it many times. I heard it mostly from men and I don't think they are attention-seeking. They are just annoyed about not to be able to enjoy food.
Are people full of shit? Sure. Are the tests as accurate as they say? I don't think so. But they are accurate enough to let us predict about how many people will get severely sick.
What do you think about the ICU bed usage? Do you think they also just do it for attention?
ICU is an area in a hospital with more beds. If more beds are needed, more patients are put in ICU rooms or other ad hoc, overflow areas. It doesn’t mean everyone in ICU is fighting for their lives on a ventilator.
Hospitals are busy now, for reasons I don’t claim to know entirely but it’s also seasonal and hospitals are designed to be perpetually busy because they’re understaffed. The minute they’re not busy, people get sent home.
However hospitals were not busy during February-May 2020 during the “pandemic,” in fact they were largely ghost towns.
Source: full-time hospital employee
How do we know hospitals are busy? I went for a blood test a couple weeks ago, and the hospital didn’t look busy. Major hospital in a major city
Of course not every hospital is busy during the whole pandemic. And hospitalizations are delayed. I wouldn't expect hospitals in America to have been busy in February or March 2020. But I think the hospitals in New York were probably busy in April and May 2020. Now the hospitals in New York are probably not very busy but I'm sure there are very busy hospitals in Florida.
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