Originally Posted by wasilla View Post
Originally Posted by Bob21 View Post
Originally Posted by radicalwin View Post
Been seeing empty hospitals in my line of work. Empty
In my area the hospitals are so empty my coworker’s wife, who’s a nurse at our local hospital for 25 years, has been laid off. This is the first time this has happened to her.

I couldn’t believe it when he told me this, so I asked him why? He said because all elective surgeries (which include hip, knee replacements, etc) have been canceled. The majority of surgeries at hospitals are elective.

She’s, a nurse, and hoping this pandemic goes away so she can go back to work. I’m not kidding. Why doesn’t the news media cover this story? They could report on all the nurses being laid off and out of work because of the coronavirus pandemic.

You can’t make this stuff up if you tried.
The media has been covering this. It is certainly not new news to me.

Alaska hospitals are also postponing elective surgeries. My surgeon even decided to make my post op appointment telephonic in mid March. Hospitals here are pretty quiet. Visitation is extremely limited and every one is screened going in. It doesn't seem that odd to me. They don't want infections in their hospital and they want to preserve their supplies.
I guess I haven’t seen it. Yeah, they’ve covered hospitals stopping doing their elective surgeries, but I haven’t seen them report on all the nurses being laid off. I wonder how many nurses and doctors across America are out of work right now because of this pandemic?

It’s actually a little scary. If this pandemic goes on much longer, it could drive our for-profit hospitals out of business and into bankruptcy. This could get bad! Think about it, most of our hospitals shutting down because of no business during a pandemic.

I sure hope this pandemic crises doesn’t last too much longer. Because nurses and doctors need jobs too!