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Thankfully. A result of the economy slowing down due to the restrictions -- which sucks for everyone. IMO, we could probably run the economy in a phase 3 type of structure and keep hospital capacity manageable -- if people would just follow the guidelines.

Hospitals get "over-run" near every year by the flu. It's hard to explain, but they do a lot of bed shuffling and such. They aren't really over-run, they just say that when they have to move beds from 1 area to another when they didn't expect it. It generally means "more than we expected" rather than "more than we can handle".

Like in the winter, they are expecting more flu cases. But then in the summer, they generally expect less flu cases, but a slight increase in trama injuries and also more elective surgeries. So they shuffle the beds around to meet that area.

So when they say "ICU is 90% full", that means 90% of the beds they had designated rather than 90% of the possible beds.

Economic shutdown is doing more damage than people realize and the stimulus packages by the government are a joke. Who in the world lives of $1200 a month much less every 6 months. Meanwhile it appears the bulk of the money is really being sent to big business because as usual that's who the government bails out and cares about.

At any rate, peoples lives are being ruined and damage is being done that might never be repaired for some people/areas on top of the deaths it's caused.