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Thank you for continuing to fight the fight!

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Perfect idea to follow the money American Association of Physicians and Surgeons has a great analysis of the heist. "Creating a “National Pandemic Emergency” provided justification for such sweeping actions that override individual physician medical decision-making and patients’ rights. The CARES Act provides incentives for hospitals to use treatments dictated solely by the federal government under the auspices of the NIH. These “bounties” must be paid back if not “earned” by making the COVID-19 diagnosis and following the COVID-19 protocol."

https://aapsonline.org/bidens-bounty-on-your-life-hospitals-incentive-payments-for-covid-19/?fbclid=IwAR1qjBtDG01oG5yO74bmtUSSBFW2c3K8vMJ-r5MTnwhxvflK-YbPULWEpbQ

Honorable mention COVID payment scams https://washingtonexterminator.com/hospitals-are-paid-federal-cash-for-every-covid-19-patient-they-admit-even-more-if-you-die-of-it/

Let's not forget hospital corps have wailed about being overrun with flu patients every year because they are designed to maximize profits and do not prepare based on predictable public health needs and seasonal spikes in flu and pneumonia that occur every flippin year.

TIME - January 18, 2018

The 2017-2018 influenza epidemic is sending people to hospitals and urgent-care centers in every state, and medical centers are responding with extraordinary measures: asking staff to work overtime, setting up triage tents, restricting friends and family visits and canceling elective surgeries, to name a few.

“We are pretty much at capacity, and the volume is certainly different from previous flu seasons,” says Dr. Alfred Tallia, professor and chair of family medicine at the Robert Wood Johnson Medical Center in New Brunswick, New Jersey. “I’ve been in practice for 30 years, and it’s been a good 15 or 20 years since I’ve seen a flu-related illness scenario like we’ve had this year.”

https://web.archive.org/web/20180123192636/https://time.com/5107984/hospitals-handling-burden-flu-patients/

Newsweek - February 7, 2018

This flu season has broken the record for number of people hospitalized per 100,000 set three years ago during another flu season dominated by a particularly dangerous strain called H3N2. About 710,000 people were hospitalized during that season.

In the last few weeks, hospitals across the country have been literally pulling out tents to make extra space for flu cases. One hospital in Allentown pulled out a surge tent that the New York Times described as an “inflatable military-style hospital ward a bit like a bouncy castle.” Hospitals in San Diego and Atlanta have done the same, according to local news reports.

https://web.archive.org/web/20180207214528/https://www.newsweek.com/2018-influenza-season-epidemic-surge-tents-make-space-flu-patients-801022

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