There is over 7000 hospital beds in the county, without any emergency measures.Denial, obliviousness and naïveté know no bounds.
Well, of course, municipalities are doing their best to mitigate an unfolding disaster.
Wearing a mask must, soon, be considered a civic duty to protect our fellow citizens.
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Take note:
Bexar County ICU beds were occupied by 25 COVID patients 1 month ago on 5/29/2020.
Bexar County ICU beds are, as I type this, occupied by 274 (!!!) COVID patients tonight 6/29/2020.
DFW metroplex and Travis are similar. Houston and surrounding counties are worse.
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An 1,100% ICU bed occupancy increase in one month. Dear God.
Be mindful that those are ICU beds filled by Texans like you and I. Mortally ill and trying to die!
A lot will change after Governor Abbott's pronouncements tomorrow afternoon.
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I feel like a distant observer, witnessing a gigantesque train wreck slowed 1,000 times.
HKS
There is over 1000 ICU beds in the county without converting other beds or wards to ICU.
Along with the avoidance of elective procedures beds and icu beds aren't an issue. Assuming that covid cases will continue to expand at over a 1000 percent is also not realistic.
Do I even need to go further?
How about context of the actual infection rate as shown by antibody testing? It's running/showing on avarage 10 times the positive testing rate. That means 90 percent of the people havnt got sick enough to even get tested or know they are sick and makes the mortality rate orders of magnitude lower than chicken little says.
Again, as said in the beginning, we cant stop this...most wont get sick....most who do wont even realise so all we need to do is ensure hospital capacity for those who need it.
So crisis averted but we have discussed this dozens of times.
How expected of you to show back up to play chicken little again at this time. I feel sorry for you.