COVID-19 in our Area--What's the Current Status at the Hospitals?

Panic citizens and they will consume what you are selling and disregard the financial manipulations and machinations occurring in our capitol that will have massive negative economic consequences for our nation for generations to come....

With national news broadcasts stoking the flames of fear and worry by reporting daily about the "Delta Variant" of COVID-19---some in our area are rightly concerned about a resurgence here.

The sneaky way actual facts are portrayed by the national media are apparently designed to scare the average citizen into a state of continuous panic---a tactic that takes a lot of concern, worry, and attention off of the printing presses in Washington DC--- which are churning out more and more debt from thin air daily.  Trillions and Trillions and Trillions....so keep folks worried and paniked, maybe they'll disregard the slow motion train wreck our national budgeting/monetay policy is becomming?  Surprise--they will and they do----- it works!  😏  Oh, and also, just to put a button on that--the media disavow and completely delegitimize the recognized, rational concept of inflation. They do it by omission----ignoring any mention of it in their coverage.   Nifty, right?  

So here's how they make it happen--here's their cookbook recipe:  1.) Find a city or area that is having an uptick in COVID -19 Delta Variant cases, 2.) show exhausted, demoralized hospital workers describing the conditions in that particular area, carefully and only talking PERCENTAGE increases in hospitalizations in such local areas-- and for the "coup de gras"--3.) conflate the local nature of the story's topic by throwing in the TOTAL NUMBER of new cases daily NATIONALLY at the very end of the one minute, thirty second package piece---and BANG---you've created a crisis!

Some out of touch, confused citizens that watch David Muir daily are probably bamboozled and actually concerned we're having 18,000 cases daily here in Florida!!....

And some constituents  have asked me about it, too--as some of the reporting on numbers, testing, and positivity seems to have been diminished locally.

So what is happening, right now, in the hospitals of Escambia County?

To find out--I called someone in the know, a well positioned hopital executive with whom I speak from time to time.  I called this individual to get the truth and to cut through the drama and the spin our media churns out nonstop on this topic beause it's a ratings bonanza to keep it roiling......

"Jeff, we are seeing an uptick locally, but nothing like what we had back in January and February."  He went on to describe that the numbers of hospitalizations have increased--but "only in the single digits..."

"We are not out of the single digits with patients hospitalized with COVID right now."  he stated.

When I asked him his assessment of the situation overall, he was optimistic.  "The only people we are seeing now, coming in needing hospitalization and the smaller numbers who are dying--- are those who are not vaccinated....everyone can get the vaccination now so it is a totally different situation than we had before-----much more manageable."

Yes, COVID-19 is real.  YES we are having an uptick locally but it is NOTHING like what we had at the beginning of the year.  The key difference is the vaccines.  They work, and they are working.

But they don't work for those who choose to remain "unvaccinated."