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Originally Posted by arkitect13
Who said this? I have seen nothing regarding this at any point, most articles regarding the state and covid have been positive, such as those stating how welocked down at the right time to avoid a total melt down like ny and nj, alot of beds were added as a precaution. But like a said earlier, i dont think the major CC hopsitals are near capacity, some smaller regional one maybe but those in the city were well prepared.
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This comment is a month old. The information in it was true at the time I typed it. Feel free to go back and look at the immediate responses following this comment and you can see I screenshotted an inquirer headline that says exactly this. Philadelphia hospitals were at or near capacity at that time. We were pretty well prepared and even if we went over capacity at some hospitals we have a lot of hospital beds in Philly and we set up temporary hospitals etc.
The point though, was that just because the curve has flattened, that does mean that you want to go wild and just open everything up. The curve will just spike right back up and if you already have hospitals at capacity, that could be a disaster.
But again, this was a month ago. Philly and Pennsylvania has done a pretty good job. Many aspects of Philly are still shut down, and those that have resumed such as construction, which is the main thing we were talking about, resumed cautiously and with safeguards in place to try to present the spread of the coronavirus. They also didn't start the process immediately as soon as the curve started to flatten. I said back then that we were probably 2-4 weeks away from construction resuming, and it did in fact take 3 more weeks for construction to resume.
Will likely be awhile until we're entirely back to normal, but if people remain cautious and smart, and those that can stay at home and work from home, do so as much as possible, there's no reason why things shouldn't continue to improve.
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