re: Anybody watching 60 minutes?

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This can't be stressed enough. It's why anytime they do a story on someone in Small Town, USA it comes across like a National Geographic episode where some strange, new species is discovered.

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No, man. NYers believe everyone outside of NY looks like

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90% of our 150+ hospitals are at 50% or less capacity with patients because of a few things:

1. No elective stuff
2. No other illnesses or trauma because everyone is crazy disinfecting stuff and there is no one out getting hurt
3. People are scared of going to hospital for anything for risk of contracting C19

And in that order.

C19 is only big in a couple facilities in select markets.

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This isn't even debatable. The Huntsville, AL hospital system just laid off 2000 employees because they don't have patients.

Local hospitals is losing $250,000 a day because of no elective surgeries.

I read that, and wonder how a hospital in a town of 32k is doing a quarter million in elective procedures a day?

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I read that, and wonder how a hospital in a town of 32k is doing a quarter million in elective procedures a day?

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Not sure which city that was, but a lot of elective procedures are expensive. Hip and knee replacements can often be put off for months (in my aunt's case, more than a year). They are not cheap. Also, if the hospital is in an area where other rural hospitals have closed (It's happened a lot the last few years), they can be serving a pretty large geographic footprint.

wrong thread

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The Huntsville, AL hospital system just laid off 2000 employees because they don't have patients.

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And now the gubment is paying every one of them $847 a week to chill at home.