When you have no beds.
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I'm in my home county right now. My wife and I stopped by the side of the road to readjust our camping crap in the back of the car, and this guy in a rusted out pickup pulled up beside us. "Y'all okay?" Yep, just moving stuff around, all good. He nodded and drove off.
He had a lot of bumper stickers. Crazy shit. The biggest one: "9/11 WAS AN INSIDE JOB."
I decided I don't care. Nor do I care about the folks taking extreme measures to distance themselves, or folks like Larry's wife who are taking advice from their docs about not getting vaccinated.
What pisses me off is the politicalization—both sides. Folks not getting vaccinated to virtue-signal to their neighbors that they're proper freedom-loving patriots. Liberals sharing anti-vax death stories and either pretty much or outright enjoying them.
Pickup truck guy has his beliefs but he still stopped to check on strangers who quite obviously don't share his politics. More of that and less political horseshit.
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@axtremus said in When you have no beds.:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2021/09/12/alabama-ray-demonia-hospitals-icu/
Alabama man dies after being turned away from 43 hospitals as covid packs ICUs
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Now, in DeMonia’s obituary, his family is urging those who remain unvaccinated to get immunized to help hospitals that have been pushed to their limits and struggling to treat emergencies not related to the pandemic.
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When the time came to write the obituary, Raven DeMonia said, her mother wanted to add the line about vaccination as part of their remembrance. The move was similar to that of others across the country whose loved ones have died because of the resurgent virus or the toll it has taken on hospitals.
…"Due to COVID 19, CRMC emergency staff contacted 43 hospitals in 3 states in search of a Cardiac ICU bed and finally located one in Meridian, MS.," the last paragraph of DeMonia's obituary reads, referring to the Cullman Regional Medical Center.
"In honor of Ray, please get vaccinated if you have not, in an effort to free up resources for non COVID related emergencies ... ," the obituary reads. "He would not want any other family to go through what his did."
NPR was unable to reach the DeMonia family. A spokesperson for Cullman Regional Medical Center, who declined to give specifics of Ray DeMonia's case, citing privacy concerns, confirmed to NPR that he was transferred from the hospital but said the reason was that he required "a higher level of specialized care not available" there.
‘A Man Died After Being Turned Away From 43 ICUs At Capacity Due To COVID, Family Says’ is the headline.
Well, he was admitted. He was transferred because the original hospital wasn’t properly equipped to give him the care he needed. That’s hardly being turned away.
