To try to debate winning on this pandemic is really just a low position to hold. I am absolutely relieved that the numbers in Houston are going down. 100%. At the same time, if you want to try to have that debate, you built a strawman of me and knocked it down. Congratulations! My point was never that the hospitals WILL run out of space. The narcissism in your post makes me think you are actually dear leader or at least share a lot in common with him. That you do so while still consistently misinterpreting the data is all the more stunning! Shall I highlight some things you've said? You said: Deaths are down 90% since the April peak in the US. Was that true or false? It was, in fact, false. As recently as a few days ago 1,000 people died from the peak of 2,700 in April. You said, these were primarily asymptomatic cases so there was nothing to be concerned about by the numbers going up because it just meant we were catching asymptomatic cases. Was that true or false? It was, in fact, false. The numbers you just posted showed how false it was because for the entirety of this month we have had very, very busy hospitals, not just catching all these asymptomatic cases. You said "this disease is dying out" meanwhile our rate of infection is still extremely high and the total number of cases recently surpassed 4 million....doesn't sound like it's dying out to me! To reiterate my point, the curve that we were on would have absolutely led to us running out of bed space. The Houston hospital systems saying "don't worry, we have plenty of space" would not have been the case and for a period was not the case AT THE RATE THAT WE WERE AT. Ben Taub was sending patients to other hospitals out of the city. TCH was accepting adults because St. Luke's was too full. There are still adults being treated at a children's hospital because the adult hospitals are unable to meet their needs. So, your point that hospital would run out of space being erroneous was, in fact, wrong. They DID run out of space. St. Luke's had to send patients elsewhere. Ben Taub had to send patients elsewhere. Hell, they brought in military healthcare workers to help staff a hospital in town to help care for their covid patients. That was the scenario that all the doctors have been worried about. Was it doomsday? No. Why was it not? Because the city partially shut down again and people started doing a better job wearing masks. We again have flattened the curve which has reduced the strain on hospitals. My point was never "we 100% absolutely will run out of beds." It was, "without change, we will." We changed, we had some success. But even without that, guess what, we ran out of beds at at least two hospitals. So, I guess you were wrong again? And, again, Phase 2 and Phase 3 are not typical ICU beds....they are converting non-ICU into ICU care. At that rate, you could say that any bed in any hospital is technically available for covid patients. That doesn't mean the care would be good or that the hospital would not be overwhelmed. Don't give me this bullshit that you were only ever just saying we had plenty of space. You have consistently tried to downplay the seriousness of this pandemic and your graph showing the numbers dropping supports aggressive interventions, aggressive ICU and med-surg care, and taking the pandemic seriously as the way to combat this and that is the opposite of your point of it being "not a big deal we're all totally fine." But sure, go ahead, make up a victory in your head! I am so glad you are so much smarter than everyone else in the room. A true stable genius as it were. Take your trolling elsewhere!
You were dead wrong. You claimed they would not run out of capacity because there was much more capacity there. The number of cases declined, which avoided the issue. That was due to our governor taking the dramatic step several days after our conversation to institute a state-wide mask mandate. This is behavior completely counter to past decisions by the state, which previously was overriding local municipalities from issuing mask mandates themselves to deal with problems like HOSPITALS RUNNING OUT OF ICU BEDS.
Cases DOWN. Hospitalizations DOWN. ICU Bed capacity ABUNDANT (79% available in Phase 2; 100% available in Phase 3). Just. As. I. Predicted. Stop the fear. Play basketball. https://www.tmc.edu/coronavirus-updates/overview-of-tmc-bed-status/
Now that the NBA bubble has been shown to be safe, and no Rockets players have COVID 19 will Thabo and others who opted out decide to join in the bubble. I'm concerned enough about our bench to think Thabo might help.
I wonder if players like Thabo regret not playing after seeing how safe and effective the bubble is at the moment. I know a lot of guys did it for family and personal reasons, no problem with that and respect that. And sure anything can change at any time in the bubble, but I bet watching from home must be tough.
