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When the vaccines came out, I was baffled when the “news” (and then everyone else) implied or outright stated that the shots provided immunization against the virus that causes the disease Covid-19. If you visit Pfizer’s website it said then, as it does now, that “the vaccine has been shown to prevent Covid-19” and that it may not “protect” everyone. That’s it. It did not say anywhere on the Fact Sheet available to recipients that the vaccine prevented a person from becoming infected with the Sars-CoV2 virus. But apparently, some were spreading “misinformation”….

Now the whole world can’t help but know that the vaccines do not immunize people against or stop transmission of the virus, and the powers that be have admitted it.

Similarly, some people think it is a lie (aka, misinformation) that hospitals were financially rewarded for cases and deaths labeled as “Covid.”

But it isn’t a lie.

In this very fact-checked article in USA Today from April 27, 2020, Senator Scott Jensen (who is also a physician), stated that hospitals receive higher Medicare allocations under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security (CARES) Act for Covid cases and deaths. Says Jensen: “If it’s a straightforward, garden-variety pneumonia that a person is admitted to the hospital for–if they’re Medicare–typically the diagnosis-related group lump-sum payment would be $5,000. But if it’s Covid-19 pneumonia, then it’s $13,000, and if that Covid-19 pneumonia patient ends up on a ventilator, it goes up to $39,000.”

Knowing how the promise of big money can lead to immoral or greedy behavior sometimes, Jensen reasonably speculated that hospital administrators might pressure doctors to cite all diagnoses, including “probable” Covid-19, on discharge papers and death certificates to get the higher Medicare allotment. Jensen was careful, however to not explicitly make this claim, only that it would be naive to “not believe that increasing the number of Covid-19 deaths may create an avenue for states to receive a larger portion of federal dollars.” The USA Today article also stated there have been no public reports of hospitals exaggerating or mislabeling deaths or cases.

Well, I guess if it hasn’t been publicly reported, then it can’t be happening! It’s not like regular people are ever hit with massive bills from hospitals….why on earth would a hospital try to hit Medicare with a massive bill? A hospital isn’t a money-making business!

This article was fact-checked by several “fact-checkers” (named in the article, including Snopes and FactCheck) and USA Today ultimately declared, “We rate the claim that hospitals get paid more if patients are listed as Covid-19 and on ventilators as TRUE.”

Suddenly, and predictably, the media is “overwhelming” me with fear-mongering “news” about the Omicron variant and how the President wants the unvaccinated to get ready for a winter full of illness and death (guess he still doesn’t know that a there are treatments for Covid and three shots doesn’t stop the spread).

Justin Hart of Rational Ground complied a list of news clips and headlines from around the country in 2017-2018, which was a very bad flu season.

Check out this headline from the LA Times dated January 16, 2018:

“California hospitals face a “war zone” of flu patients–and are setting up tents to treat them“

And it goes on to describe:

Hospitals across the state are sending away ambulances, flying in nurses from out of state…..Others are canceling surgeries and erecting tents in their parking lots so they can triage the hordes of flu patients….There’s a little bit of a feeling of being in the trenches…..Connie Cunningham and her staff at Loma Linda University Medical Center were triaging so many flu patients that they assembled what looks like a giant brown camping tent in their emergency room parking lot…”It’s like trying to surf a tsunami,” said Dr. Brian Johnston…

“Palomar Medical Center Escondido in northern San Diego County also pulled out a flu tent this month, but was still so busy that some patients were treated in the hallways….now they’re running low on beds….staff began clearing out an area that was being used as storage…”

It was the same story on the East coast. where this Time article describes tents being set up in hospital parking lots in New Jersey, Pennsylvania as well as in Alabama (“Hospitals Overwhelmed by Flu Patients Are Treating Them in Tents“).

Well, that sounds dire. So the country has been here before. Except this time, hospitals are starting the winter understaffed due to so many nurses getting fired because of vaccine mandates. Yes, firing frontline workers who likely HAD COVID, and who served us heroically during the pandemic makes so much sense. Isn’t a slap in the face at all, and I’m sure their absence will be very helpful during this much anticipated “covid surge.”

Sounds like we are in for the much promised “normal” winter the media promised the vaccines would bring!

Here’s my suggestion for a happy winter. Take vitamin D and TURN OFF YOUR T.V.