Lost_My_Mind comments on Man arrested after 'dressing as Grim Reaper' at hospital and staring at patients

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago (9 children)

Oh! Whew! I was worried for a moment! Thishappened in the UK.

Perfectly fine to do this here in America. Actually most hospital rooms are empty. Ain't nobody got money to pay for our broken healthcare system!

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[–] Warl0k3@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago* (8 children)

While your sentiment is for sure in the right place, the inverse is the case right now; I don't know of a region that isn't floating at crisis levels for bed avaliablity (right now US hospitals are roughly 89% full, well over the predicted threshold for "shit starts collapsing" at 85%). It's really, really bad out there.

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[–] Nurse_Robot@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago (5 children)

My hospital hovers around 100% year round. We were at 130% recently, that was bad. Very bad.

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[–] Warl0k3@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago*

Hey it could be worse, you could be at one of the psych hospitals! Poor fuckers are running at 400%+ capacity on a good day. They're so overtaxed they're turfing people from forensic beds, and anyone that isnt a critical emergent case is never getting admitted. It's so much fun!

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[–] Cricket@lemmy.zip 3 points 3 months ago (3 children)

130%??? Are we talking like the stereotypical image of a collapsing country with patients laying in gurneys in the hallway?

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