With this pandemic going on and every single media source spewing out nothing but news about Coronavirus, it is hard for the average American to sift through all the information that is out there and find out what is really going on. My attitude has shifted several times throughout this pandemic. At first I thought it was no big deal, then I was schocked at how bad it was actually appearing to be, and now I’m back to questioning everything that’s going on. So why am I skeptical? I am skeptical for a few reasons.
The first reason I am skeptical is because the numbers for people sick and dying from Coronavirus are severely inflated. The reason I know this is because hospitals and doctors have admitted it themselves. In any case where a person dies showing even the slightest symptoms of COVID-19, such as shortness of breath or coughing, hospitals have every incentive to declare it a COVID death. A man can walk into the hospital, die of a heart attack, his body test positive for COVID-19 afterward, and the death will be ruled a “Coronavirus death,” and it gets added to the statistics. Now imagine this happening thousands of times and the idea that the numbers are inflated is not so crazy.
A hospital receives $13,000 from Medicare for every new patient with COVID that walks through their doors. They receive $39,000 if a patient needs a ventilator. I am not necessarily saying that this is just one big money grab for the hospitals. Since the beginning of the outbreak, the government mandated that hospitals be fully staffed at all times. Many of these hospitals only had a few cases of COVID-19 come through their doors, yet they have to pay this whole fleet of personnel that is on duty for apparently no reason. The way I see it, hospitals are inflating the numbers, pushing doctors to declare COVID-19 cases, and using the money to pay their staff so that they literally don’t go bankrupt. It is not just me saying it, I have found examples of angry doctors on the web who express the same opinion.
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