No, I didn't miss it, I was responding to the cynicism about "the news cycle", that's why I pointed out that a pandemic is a different sort of thing than a car accident.

If you are operating at your normal capacity factor but have reason to predict that you are on a trajectory to be completely overwhelmed along with every hospital within reasonable driving distance, it's different than if you are operating at your normal capacity factor and have to send a patient or two to the nearest hospital with more spare capacity.

Your response would make sense if we were still in the first months of the pandemic when there was serious risk of overrunning the hospitals.

Covid is still very real. And there are still very real risks. But this fear of overrun ICUs is irrational nonsense. We are back to pre-pandemic ICU utilization. And we have been since before the Delta variant hit.

The head internist at my local hospital participated in a news story about how everyone that works there is sick of it all just last month. This is at a small hospital that usually deals with a few patients at a time. They've had periods where they had limited space and couldn't make transfers since Delta hit.

But maybe the media called every hospital in the state to find her or something.

We are scraping by with the measures we do have in place, we can't use the fact that we are successfully scraping by as evidence that we have too many measures in place.

It's simply dishonest for you or anyone else to pretend like COVID filling up ICUs is a wide spread problem. There may be anecdotes of it being true in a particular hospital or community. But nationwide we are back to pre-pandemic occupancy levels.

I don't understand why you extrapolated that data to suggest something about how many measures we have in place. Is your position that we should lie to the public so they will do what you want?

I feel like we are talking past each other and you are putting words in my mouth (and calling me a liar), so whatever.