Just because your local hospital isn't overwhelmed w/COVID patients...

...doesn't mean that this pandemic is a hoax. I know some guy filmed a hospital in Dayton, OH and posted video of how empty the facilities are, but that is a deceiving video. It's just as deceiving as videoing all hell breaking loose at Elmhurst in NY or Henry Ford in Detroit or University Medical Center in NO. They are not all alike.

I work at a small community hospital in West Michigan...not near Detroit. Due to the social isolation recommendations, our facility is basically at a standstill...just like many businesses in our area. We're not doing elective procedures. Because people are being screened by a triage nurse for respiratory complaints, our ER volumes are plummeting and the group there is cutting coverage in a move to hopefully make payroll. People are appropriately avoiding the hospital and Urgent Care for minor complaints to keep exposures down.

In our area, the social isolation has created a standstill. Looks like the same has occurred in Dayton. But, the cat is out of the bag in other areas. If we don't want to see Dayton or West Michigan looking like other overwhelmed areas, it's best that we follow the recommendations of the public health experts.

If you look at a map of Italy's outbreak, it is clear that it started in the north in Lombardy.
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The virus spread from there and then the country went into a lockdown to contain the spread. If you look from north to south, you can see that the virus was blocked from spreading and overwhelming the south by this methodology. It's the only weapon we have to tamp down the spread of this infectious disease.

Rural areas will be the last to be overwhelmed by this process...but hopefully this will not happen...and crazy, tinfoil hat wearing...HOAX propagating folks will gleefully say...."See! We told you this virus was a bunch of bullshite!"