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Man arrested after 'dressing as Grim Reaper' at hospital and staring at patients (www.mirror.co.uk)

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[-] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 5 points 5 days ago

Oh! Whew! I was worried for a moment! Thishappened in the UK.

Perfectly fine to do this here in America. Actually most hospital rooms are empty. Ain't nobody got money to pay for our broken healthcare system!

[-] Warl0k3@lemmy.world 6 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

While your sentiment is for sure in the right place, the inverse is the case right now; I don't know of a region that isn't floating at crisis levels for bed avaliablity (right now US hospitals are roughly 89% full, well over the predicted threshold for "shit starts collapsing" at 85%). It's really, really bad out there.

[-] Nurse_Robot@lemmy.world 5 points 5 days ago

My hospital hovers around 100% year round. We were at 130% recently, that was bad. Very bad.

[-] Warl0k3@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Hey it could be worse, you could be at one of the psych hospitals! Poor fuckers are running at 400%+ capacity on a good day. They're so overtaxed they're turfing people from forensic beds, and anyone that isnt a critical emergent case is never getting admitted. It's so much fun!

[-] Cricket@lemmy.zip 3 points 5 days ago

130%??? Are we talking like the stereotypical image of a collapsing country with patients laying in gurneys in the hallway?

[-] Nurse_Robot@lemmy.world 6 points 5 days ago

Yes. This is in a major city in Colorado, we're not a small hospital nor are we in a rural place. There's no excuse

[-] KeithD@lemmy.nz 3 points 5 days ago

Aren't the rural hospitals all heading towards closure due to changes in medicare/medicaid funding? I'm pretty sure you're just in the new normal.

[-] Cricket@lemmy.zip 2 points 5 days ago

That's wild! I'm sorry that you have to deal with that.

[-] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world -1 points 5 days ago

touches your nose

BOOP!

[-] Warl0k3@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago

... can't touch this.

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