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When will upsers be able to receive the covid-19 shot?
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<blockquote data-quote="zubenelgenubi" data-source="post: 4730407" data-attributes="member: 63706"><p>Ok, to clarify, I am not accusing the hospitals of being complicit in the grift. When your hospital is not allowed to do any non-emergency treatment, and the CDC, or whoever determines these things, comes to you and says, follow these guidelines, report numbers this way, and you will get relief money for each case/fatality related to covid, do you refuse the help the government is offering because the government put you in a position of going bankrupt because of principles? Or do you just accept the help because you know the community needs a functioning hospital? Why tie the extra funding to cases, and not simply offer block grants based on need? </p><p></p><p>On the flip side, say you are a public health official who is charged with making policy to help prevent hospitals from being overrun. You figure the best way is to decrease the number of people going to them. It may have been done with the best of intentions, but at best it was a clumsy and unsophisticated approach. </p><p></p><p>When I say "they" are intentionally inflating numbers, I don't know that it's a single entity that is behind it, or that it is simply a manifestation of the complexities of the system. But the numbers are higher than they should be, the way the numbers are reported is an intentional part of the response plan, and the end result is we are taking on more debt to handle the situation than we should, hence the swindle. </p><p></p><p>I realize I'm describing 64-bit information to people with 8-bit processors, but my posts are already too long as it is. I use simpler terms to convey complex ideas, and people jump to the wrong conclusions about what I am trying to communicate. It's one of the hazards of public discourse.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="zubenelgenubi, post: 4730407, member: 63706"] Ok, to clarify, I am not accusing the hospitals of being complicit in the grift. When your hospital is not allowed to do any non-emergency treatment, and the CDC, or whoever determines these things, comes to you and says, follow these guidelines, report numbers this way, and you will get relief money for each case/fatality related to covid, do you refuse the help the government is offering because the government put you in a position of going bankrupt because of principles? Or do you just accept the help because you know the community needs a functioning hospital? Why tie the extra funding to cases, and not simply offer block grants based on need? On the flip side, say you are a public health official who is charged with making policy to help prevent hospitals from being overrun. You figure the best way is to decrease the number of people going to them. It may have been done with the best of intentions, but at best it was a clumsy and unsophisticated approach. When I say "they" are intentionally inflating numbers, I don't know that it's a single entity that is behind it, or that it is simply a manifestation of the complexities of the system. But the numbers are higher than they should be, the way the numbers are reported is an intentional part of the response plan, and the end result is we are taking on more debt to handle the situation than we should, hence the swindle. I realize I'm describing 64-bit information to people with 8-bit processors, but my posts are already too long as it is. I use simpler terms to convey complex ideas, and people jump to the wrong conclusions about what I am trying to communicate. It's one of the hazards of public discourse. [/QUOTE]
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