The San Francisco Gate is doing the work the legacy media refuses to do, as it debunks Governor Gavin Newsom’s crisis mode surrounding COVID. This expose shows that the latest COVID protocol, restrictions and diktats are not related to any real emergency and have everything to do to maintain power and to bilk federal governments out of more money.
California leads the way… in crisis acting.
The jig’s up.
San Francisco Gate
On Saturday, in response to hospitals begging for relief from a massive staffing crisis, the California Department of Public Health announced that most hospitals and skilled nursing facilities can bring COVID-positive and exposed staff back to work without testing or quarantines. All staff must be unasymptomatic and wear N95 masks. They are also encouraged to interact with those who have COVID.
This news might come as a surprise to people who have been reading dire warnings about omicron and some public health officials’ pleas to cancel plans and stay home. Public health officials argue that these steps are needed to stop hospitals becoming overwhelmed by COVID patients. San Francisco’s hospitals are in serious financial trouble for several weeks. But it’s not because people are sick — it’s because of staffing shortages driven by overly strict state quarantine rules, the director of COVID response at UCSF’s emergency department said.
RedState was, as usual, ahead of the curve. RedState was ahead of the curve in addressing concerns about staffing shortages resulting from federal and state vaccination mandates. Many Americans don’t have a happy new year due to government cruelty and misguided supply chains.
California’s failed policies have been magnified by the threat of a public mandate against particular healthcare workers. We are now paying for the consequences.
After reviewing all the charts for every patient with COVID at UCSF hospitals, Jan. 4, Dr. Jeanne NobleProfessor of Emergency Medicine at UCSF and associate professor, Dr. Judith Sullivan, found that 73% of the patients were there for reasons other than medical emergencies.
“The real COVID crisis that our hospitals are facing is a severe staffing shortage that is compromising the quality of our care,” Noble said Friday, shortly before the policy change was announced.
Staffing shortages are so severe that California is considering canceling elective surgeries, as happened during the worst of last year’s peak.
As Los Angeles CBS reports, elective surgery is also included in the screening process that leads to them.
Due to the overwhelming healthcare workforce caused by this COVID-19 surge in COVID-19, Southland hospitals are cancelling elective surgeries. These include joint replacements as well as gallbladder surgery.
“It’s literally a challenge finding a warm body because there are so many out sick and unavailable to work,” said senior vice president and CSO at Methodist Hospital, Clifford Daniels.
The Arcadia hospital has 100 full-time employees positive for COVID-19 and is struggling to cope with the ever-growing number of patients.
“We have a 26-bed ER here at Methodist hospital and there were I believe something upwards of 90 patients in the ER waiting to be admitted (and) treated,” Daniels said. “The real thing I’ve never seen before… was there were 12 ambulances stacked outside the ER waiting to drop patients off. We had no room. They were just waiting there.”
The hospital needed help and decided to take a similar step as many other hospitals in Los Angeles County. They canceled at least 50 elective surgery procedures in an effort to make it easier for employees.
My personal knowledge is that a 20-year-old woman died from pancreatic cancer. She was diagnosed mid-2020 when California reinstated screenings and elective surgery. This woman might have been saved if she was screened by California in the early 2020s. She was too late to be screened.
The story of this woman is just one among many that have been reported. There have been many people who suffered pain or discomfort and whose illnesses advanced due to the shifting COVID policies and unelected bureaucrats of California Department of Health. Not to mention the “cooked” COVID numbers that Governor Hair Gel still will not discuss; numbers for which the first Director of Health who led the pandemic response, Dr. Sonia Angell, resigned under questionable circumstances. Her Hairfulness quickly dismissed her.
And now California is looking at repeating this scenario because Hair Gel decided we needed to be “first” in forcing healthcare workers to get the jab, and lead the charge in firing those who refused.
How’s that working out for you, California?
“The crisis from the Omicron peak is not generated by serious COVID illness in regions with highly vaxxed populations,” Noble wrote in an email to SFGATE. “The crisis we are suffering in the Bay Area is largely driven by disruptive COVID policies that encourage asymptomatic testing and subsequent quarantines. … The vast majority of COVID-plus patients I take care of need no medical care and are quickly discharged home with reassurance.”
These people are driven by fear and assisted by legacy media to take away resources that could be used for people in real health crises or who truly require care.
It would be laughable, if it wasn’t so tragic.
You can thank those “disruptive COVID policies” from Newsom and Co.: Dr. Mark Ghaly, the Crypt Keeper Barbara Ferrer, and the rest of their ilk for creating a real crisis out of a fake one. They did it all to keep their power and collect the federal COVID money.
It’s a self-inflicted wound that should have been averted and avoided. But that would require leadership and actual care and concern for people’s lives.
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