A physician speaks up …

… Balcony Applause: Health Care Workers Are Our Heroes - LewRockwell. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

A uniquely synchronous and methodically alarmist global public-health warning of the outbreak and spread of SARS-COV-2 was amplified by a sensationalist media and by officials at all levels of government. The response of the general public as well as doctors, hospitals, nursing homes and their administrators was nothing but predictable. In past epidemics, and even during non-epidemic periods, hospitals have experienced actual shortages of personnel and equipment when tightly imposed staff and bed limits confronted seasonal fluctuations in illness. The recent and needlessly prolonged health delivery fiasco is certainly beyond any institutional disaster that I have experienced in my 40 years of medical practice in NYC.