Comments by "Charles Polk" (@chrlpolk) on "Nurse’s Chilling Warning About Overcrowded Hospitals" video.

  1. There are news articles of overcrowded hospitals from the flu in 2018. Hospitals try to run near-capacity at all times. So anything can take them over the top, like a pandemic, or reduction of the staff force. The reason they do this is because the boards of hospitals are made up of non-medical trades like lawyers and bankers.
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  2. Watching progressives simultaneously argue for Medicare for All and for denial of medical services 😂🤣🤣
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  3. TYT, calling itself a news outlet, will show the TikTok selfie vid, but not call or interview other staff at the hospital to verify this nurse’s claims. 🤔 Because these days, viralling on social media is a form of verification!
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  4. US Government: Paid a Chinese lab to experiment with Corona viruses. Also US Government: This is y’all’s fault for not taking our meds.
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  5. Same for obese people who need heart surgeries. Their fault, right?
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  6. Think about your own workplace. Think about that one coworker who you could see going on a disgruntled rant on TikTok. Are they a reliable source? Why would this be any different?
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  7. Same goes for folks who couldn’t stick to their diets! Don’t clog our hospitals after you clogged your arteries!
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  8. @Reefing 101 There are less hospital beds now than there was in the 1970’s. And a larger population. Do some math here bud.
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  9. “Overwhelmed by flu cases, some ERs turn ambulances away” CBS News, 2018. Maybe it’s something other than coronavirus? Like greedy boards and a shitty healthcare system?
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  10. @Henry Vargas Perhaps you missed the point. If there were such stories as the nurse’s claim, then TYT would cover those stories. TikTok anecdotes would not be necessary, much less newsworthy. As it is, we’re presented with anecdotes viralling on TikTok substituting for news.
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  11. Unfortunately, due to the shitty healthcare, many people wait until it’s too late to go to the hospital - with everything else, as well as Covid. There is a Federal aid program for those who survive. But if you’ve waited until you can’t breathe to get medical attention, the hospital will have to eat that bill (meaning taxpayers, ultimately).
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  12. Then don’t tax the unvaxxed for hospitals they can’t use. Have “unvaxxed only” hospitals. If we’re going to “other” each other let’s do it right!
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  13. A baby is a disease?
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  14. What other life choices can we refuse treatment for?
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  15. @ANONY MOUSE, Fill in the blank. When a woman miscarries, people generally say, “She lost her ______.”
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  16. And anti vaxxer vids. Are they not saying it like it is? Or is it only saying it like it is when it’s reinforcing what you personally already believe?
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  17. One nurse whom we never heard of did a selfie vid. Let’s take it 💯 at face value yo!
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  18. Got to! Kamala 2024!
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  19. It would have the opposite affect, because it would draw attention to the fact that all variants are coming from abroad. 100% vaccination rate in the USA would not stop Covid, as we’d still have vaccine-resistant variants come from elsewhere. So it helps the argument that it’s not the US population’s fault, which right now is the current political football both sides are tossing.
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  20. You’re right! All we’re doing is “other”ing the unvaxxed. You can see it here in the comments, where people are saying the unvaxxed shouldn’t be allowed in hospitals. Because like illegals, they’re taking up valuable resources meant for true patriots. Same argument.
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  21. @Nicolas Gay jokes, how “progressive”. I’m watching my fellow leftists become right wingers. There is no difference in you saying “they didn’t want to take precautions” when talking about Covid and the right wingers saying it about unwanted pregnancies. The apathy is the same.
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  22. Joe only gave Trump’s covid checks that Pelosi stalled in Congress so as not to give Trump a “win”. And then he didn’t give the full $2K as promised. But you’re right, he did give lots of money to businesses. To “help employees”.
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  23. But Fauci said wearing masks wasn’t necessary! (Until he said it was.)
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  24. If media is paid for by Big Pharma, why do you suppose it’s not covered to this degree? Could it be that TYT, for whatever reason, is pumping big pharma propaganda more than even the paid-for mainstream media can get away with?
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  25. And let’s also decide which other lifestyle choices should get denied treatment. That’ll really be fun when the “other sides” takes control of government again, won’t it?
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  26. @Chaoitcme When you says, “You are about 17 times” you are making a statistical fallacy. I, personally, am not. The vast majority of unvaxxed young people do not end up in a hospital bed. And that number drops even more when they have natural immunity from previous infection.
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  27. @Hoodoo the Clown At what hospital can I call and verify the treatment of one Hoodoo the Clown? Why are we hearing anecdotes and no specific, verifiable information?
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  28. So the math. Majority of Americans don’t vote at all, no interest in politics. So the majority of Covid deaths would also likely not vote at all. Of the small percentage of the population that dies, only a small percentage of that would be Republican voters. The math becomes the # of Republican voters dying vs. the # of non-voters who contracted and survived Covid and will now vote R due to seeing the D’s pandemic response being overhyped and invasive to their lives.
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  29. Don’t worry, they’ll go all-in for Kamala when the time comes.
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  30. “We don’t get to complain,” in a complaining response to a video of a nurse complaining.
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  31. Isn’t this what right wing says about pregnancy and drug abusers? Why is your apathy different?
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  32. @J Hill Any examples of that actually happening? It seems like if there were, TYT would cover that, instead of anecdotes about that. It’s just like when the right wing talks about car crash deaths that get counted as Covid deaths. Plenty of anecdotes, but strange how there’s no stories about specific incidences. Right?
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  33. Also, obese heart surgery patients and alcoholics with liver issues, turn them all away. They did it to themselves, right?
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  34. @Shadowman4710 The “free shot” is diet and exercise.
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  35. @Kayla K Just be consistent. You believe hospitals should make judgement calls based on their evaluation of your life choices. Death panels and such.
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  36. @Jose Kelly Oh. What about the nurses who don’t want to get vaxxed? Do you defend their vids as vigorously? Why or why not?
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  37. What’s truly sad for this nurse is that she can’t get her fellow nurses to join with her, and her recourse is doing selfie vids on social media. What would you say about a right-wing nurse against vaccines who can’t get her colleagues to join her argument?
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  38. We musnt let a little thing like facts stand in the way of progress!
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  39. A nurse picks and chooses such things?
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  40. @Michael Shigetani There is no solution. 100% vaccination, we’ll still have vax-resistant variants from around the world immigrating. The solution is to get used to it being around, and don’t blame each other for the blunders of government.
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  41. @The Conscientious Perfecter I listened to her nonspecific and unverifiable anecdotes. Would have been a better news story if they interviewed people who were actually denied care, but I guess they couldn’t find those.
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  42. Well I mean, we’re doing exactly what she wanted. Giving her unwarranted attention.
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  43. Answering what we’re doing to “support her”. She didn’t talk about her efforts to go through her HR, and TikTok’ers and “news” sources like TYT shared her unverified anecdotes. She got the attention she was craving when she posted the vid.
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  44. No, quite the opposite! She wanted attention, she got it.
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  45. Isn’t that what they already do?
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  46. @Playfulpanthress Ok.
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  47. Meatloaf died? That’s the most alarming thing on TYT today!
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  48. The average human has less than 2 legs.
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  49. Can you find a specific incident of someone being turned away? I’ve heard from the right wing that car crash deaths are counted as Covid deaths, but no one can find a specific instance of it. What makes this anecdotal claim different?
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  50. So we should have a, say, panel of administrators who evaluate our life choices and determine the kind of care we get accordingly. Correct?
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  51. Why allow fat people to get heart surgeries? Why allow alcoholics a new liver to mess up?
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  52. All kinds of infrastructure proposed but just can’t seem to handle the architecture of building more hospital beds & ventilators. 🤔
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  53. So it’s funny how we have to rely on a nurse doing a selfie vid on social media. And not a conglomeration of nurses who speak with one unified voice. Why do you think we can’t get the latter for more impactful pleas?
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  54. "I made the decision. I'm accepting this. Don't do anything, doctor. Give that bed to a cancer patient," said no obese heart surgery patient, ever.
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  55. Hospitals are not denying emergency services. It’s actually illegal for them to do so. They are postponing non-emergency and elective surgeries. The issue is that postponing can turn a non-emergency into an emergency. But the idea that people are denied emergency services is fear mongering propaganda.
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  56. @rabid The same Fauci who reversed on masks? The same CDC who recently contradicted their previous guideline with their new ones?
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  57. OR she’s a disgruntled worker attention-seeking on TikTok. Nah, there are no other examples of that, so never mind.
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  58. @Michael Shigetani As much proof as you do. Her video is nonspecific, nonverifiable anecdotes. Seems this should be the start of an investigation for a news story, rather than the news story itself.
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  59. It’s funny how this is SO rampant and yet all we get are viral anecdotal rants from TikTok selfie vids. No specific instances of people being denied emergency services, which would be actual news.
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  60. @mugenjin205 More importantly, where are the cases of that happening? Time after time, I heard right wingers tell the anecdotes of car crash deaths being counted as Covid deaths. So I’d ask for specifics - names? Cites or states? Crickets. This video is no different. Unspecific anecdotes, with nothing to investigate and verify. Funny how this is rampant, but we just can’t find anyone it’s actually happened to, huh?
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  61. @UberHeroMystic I understand that if the things she claimed were true, THAT would have been investigated and become the story, her TikTok vid unimportant. Instead, we’re covering unverified anecdotes on TikTok as if that’s the worthwhile news story.
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  62. @Nicolas I compared the apathy towards those things. Not those things. Ironically,, the most shitlib thing here is your strawman to defend denial of medical services, against the spirit of Medicare For All.
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  63. @Asleep Awake Insurance premium is a private corporation’s prerogative, not a government mandate. Premiums are not taxes, and although I do think they should be, what you’re arguing for is for government to judge our lifestyle and tax accordingly. It’s okay if that’s what you believe, but just understand, it wouldn’t stop at Covid.
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  64. @Descartes walks into a bar They clog their arteries, then they clog our hospital beds away from our Unvaxxed Patriots!
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  65. @Descartes walks into a bar What would we do without government telling us what our responsibilities to each other are? It’s amazing humanity has lasted this long, isn’t it?? Being able to determine what our duties to each other are within our community is certainly not something a population can suss out for themselves, huh?
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  66. @Descartes walks into a bar I’m joking for the most part. The issue I’m raising, really, is about arbitrary rationing of medical care based on lifestyle choice judgement calls. The traditional leftist position has always been, “it doesn’t matter how someone got here, they’re suffering now and need help now.” And as a M4A advocate, it’s bizarre to watch leftists suddenly flip on such an important ideal
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  67. @Descartes walks into a bar The irony is that liver transplants are denied to people with dependencies on the basis that their bodies wouldn’t survive the post-op, and the leftist position has always been that alcoholism should not be a factor. It is arbitrary because you feel Covid is a proper place to draw the line. If someone took the position that voluntarily engaging in unprotected sex should lead to a denial of AIDS treatment, you can see how it’s arbitrary. You feeling it’s an appropriate place to draw a line which can be drawn elsewhere is the definition of arbitrary.
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  68. What other lifestyle choices should we refuse treatment for?
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  69. @The Conscientious Perfecter So have unprotected sex, you don’t get AIDS treatment. Got it. I don’t agree with you, but at least you’re consistent.
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  70. @jeck jeck We’re comparing choices - sex and vaccinations - and arbitrary decisions on denying treatment.
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  71. @jeck jeck And when the Right Wing takes control, you’ll be fine with pro-lifers determining which lifestyle choices deserves denial of treatment. You’ll be consistent, right?
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  72. @Vulvasaurus Lix In your bubble, you don’t realize there are also numerous selfie vids of nurses saying the pandemic is overhyped. And TYT hasn’t shown “numerous” here, they highlighted a single one, and you are claiming “numerous” - again, from your bubble.
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  73. Alchoholic sirrosis is the #1 cause of liver transplant treatments. It’s a life choice, and they don’t get turned away. Relapse is a common problem, and it’s hilarious you’re here spouting what is traditionally a right-wing talking point! Usually, leftists are defenders of multiple transplants.
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  74. AIDS and other STD’s, the smoking that led to cancer of yourself and others, the drinking that led to inhibitions that led to unplanned pregnancy. The thing with arbitrary lines is that you only see “arbitrary” as that beyond what you’ve determined is acceptable.
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  75. @Nicolas I’m saying people should get medical care regardless of how they got there; they’re suffering now, they need help now. Others are saying they should be denied service. How is it in your head that my take is the “shitlib” take that’s not in the spirit of Medicare For All?
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  76. @jeck jeck Anecdotal. If this is so rampant, the news story should be the specific cases. Instead, we’re giving viral unspecific and unverified anecdotal rants the same weight as actual news coverage.
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