Thread by @ElonBachman

A German hospital writes of "reduced occupancy due to the pandemic"

Language sure is a supple thing!

Not sure how good this google translation is, but it reads like German hospitals were granted laxer reporting standards at the same time they were otherwise incentivized to find COVID deaths

@eugyppius1

Turns out that scaring people to death about a bad flu has negative health consequences:

A good example of the futility of price controls:

Germany decided to mandate staffing levels in excess of what the market was willing to pay for

This resulted in *less* healthcare being provided

(btw, minimum wage laws work the same way)

It's funny watching these hospitals try to write annual reports without explicitly saying that the world went insane during COVID

Here, the German hospital mentions the *impression* of overcrowded ICUs

A wry comment on the "grotesque" effects of regulation: it causes shortage next door to waste

Here are the hard numbers from this German hospital system:

Employees, patients, and bed occupancy all *down* during a supposed pandemic