Mon Oct 24, 2022 – 9:47 am EDT
(Wood House) – Repeat after me: New York City’s emergency rooms were not overwhelmed by visits in spring 2020. In fact, they were busier during the 2017–2018 flu season than they were at any point between lockdown orders and January 2022’s supposed omicron surge.
Data from the New York City Department of Health and Hygiene, provided via a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request, tell a different story from the one told by elected officials, news media, dancing nurses, and aspiring celebrity doctors.
Contrary to the mainstream narrative, former Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s stay-at-home orders didn’t come “just in time” to save New York City’s healthcare system from collapse. They triggered a staggering 60 percent-plus decline in the number of people coming or being brought to ERs. That’s a hard truth to handle given the city’s record high number of EMS calls and hospital, outpatient facility, and emergency room deaths in spring 2020.
It’s likewise a hard, if predictable, truth to handle for those of us who were (and are) anti-lockdown.
We remember how selected images and videos from NYC hospitals were used to scare people across the country about how
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