And the good thing is, those difficult to believe stories from NPR are being funded by your tax dollars.

indeed. there are already endless number of threads on covid, --just pick one & carry on

Thank you for also taking the time and effort to actually read the link. While no entity or news source is 100% perfect, if it comes down to believing the vast majority of what comes from Fox/AON/Newsmax/Etc. or NPR - I'll take NPR for $10K Alex.

May I summarize? Holger comes on TOTV and starts a thread entitled

I'll take "Things that never happened" for $800, Alex. where he says the NPR story is made up, it never happened because ..reasons..

Several people fact check Holger and find, amazingly, that the NPR story is fully supported by the dead person's obituary and the state Health Dept.

The facts seem to be that the man presented to an ER in a hospital that could not manage his heart attack. The ER called 43 hospitals before they finally found one that would accept him as a patient, and he was transferred. He died in that out of state hospital from his heart attack. Had there been a closer place with an open ICU or CCU bed perhaps he lives, perhaps not. But the NPR story, the obituary and the other evidence is that the events as reported actually happened.

I am waiting for Holger to return and explain why he is attacking NPR, which in this case was 100% reliable, but is leaving his reliability in serious question by not retracting his assertion or further documenting why he believes he is right that this never happened. I can report that NPR does make mistakes, and when they are aware of them they make corrections. Will Holger do the same??

"...explain why he is attacking NPR..."


With all due respect, I don't think there are too many who don't know the real answer to that.

And that "difficult to believe story" is seemingly true, amazing.

We demand, we expect perfection. Reality is perfection does not exist. Enough facilities to handle the current expanded load. Yes, it is money. We would then object to the high cost of medical care.

He required a higher level of specialized care. They cannot say, based on his coverage to treat him will be a loss.

Well, I now get most of my news from Stephen Colbert.

Boomer

Yes we had to save big bird.

More fear mongering , if you are with weakened immunity protect yourself , quit posting isolated cases of folks that did not protect themselves.

CBS last night reported a young boy with appendicitis waited hours before being seen because all he’d were taken by COVID patients. Father confirmed they nearly list their son.

Npr = national propaganda reporting

So? He wasnt turned away from ICUs as you say. The hospital was at capacity plus they didnt have the level of care he needed. I dont understand the reason to repost this article

Only 43??

It is shoddy journalism and it’s not the first time. My husband and I worked for the government and were on the inside of many criminal cases. The local NPR in So Cal lied regularly and would use unnecessary adjectives to describe agencies they didn’t like. For example, “the all-too-powerful prison guard’s Union”. How about “the prison guards union voted today to request stab vests inside of every level of prison”.?