re: #95 Anymouse 🌹🏡

Corporate hospital CEO asshat in New York is bitching about the slow pace of accepting patients aboard the USNS Comfort.

Navy Hospital Ship Sits Mostly Empty As Coronavirus Cripples New York (Vanity Fair)

Said asshat, Michael Dowling of Northwell Health, is complaining about “a tangle of military protocols and bureaucratic hurdles” keeping patients from being rapidly transferred to the ship.

Okay, corporate asshat (I really hate capitalism uber alles):

a) The Comfort isn’t there for your comfort, or your profit margin.
b) Said “military protocols and bureaucratic hurdles” are there to keep the virus off the ship. If it gets aboard, the whole exercise is a waste and your hospital corporation still gets no relief.

All the NYC metro area hospitals are treating every patient coming thru the door as a potential covid19 vector, because the number of patients that initially come in for anything as innocuous as a broken leg can suddenly present as covid19 within hours.

They have to treat everyone as a risk for covid19, so even the Javits center is now being treated as a covid19 facility. The Comfort too.

It’s not just about asshat CEOs who are forcing staff to work with limited PPE. It’s about the fact that this disease is so pervasive among patients that they have to treat all patients as possible covid19 cases (and to prevent spread to those patients too).

It’s all fucked up precisely because there’s insufficient testing.