Getting played by medical professionals?

Vincent J. Curtis

23 Sept 21

RE: Opinions have consequences, by Jacquie Reid.  A letter to the editor published in the Hamilton Spectator 23 Sept 21.

After reading Jacquie Reid’s letter, I got the distinct impression that Hamiltonians are being played.  Let me set out a few facts, as opposed to opinions.

The number if ICU beds in Ontario is 2300.  Of these, 1400 are occupied by non-COVID patients, leaving 900 to deal with pandemic cases.  On September 22, Ontario reported 179 COVID patients in ICU, of which 155 tested positive and 24 negative.  There were 130 on ventilator, of which 112 tested positive and 18 negative for COVID-19.  The number of COVID patients anywhere in hospital was 330.

There is plenty of reserve capacity available in Ontario hospitals to deal with COVID emergencies, and that may be one reason why Ontario is accepting Alberta’s overflow.  So, where does the impression arise that COVID is presently “straining hospital resources?”  Is COVID really responsible for the cancellation of surgeries?

Anyhow, these contentions were used to bash the unvaccinated.  But, given the data, it simply can’t be so that the resources of Ontario’s hospitals are stretched to the limit - to the point where necessary heart surgeries are being cancelled.  Could there be other reasons?

In Ontario, as in Alberta, the various medical “unions” I’ll call them (though official they’re not) are in tough negotiations with the provincial government over, of all things, compensation.  Could it be that politically embarrassing opinions are being ventilated because of that?

Could it be that politically unpopular control measures are being demanded in various ways by medical professionals, not because they work, but because they make the government look bad either by not employing them or by employing them.  Meanwhile, the medical professional condemning the government hides his self-interest behind his lab coat, and the progressive media ask no tough questions, do no research of their own, and act as if they have no political interest at stake themselves.  In short, how much of this is just anti-Conservative government propaganda?

The medical unions are staffed by people too, and no amount of education can free people from human foibles.

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