In the screencap you posted, I saw that it said "hospital establishments". I looked into it a little further, and as I suspected, that number includes a lot of facilities that aren't equipped to handle acute care. According to the statista infographic, there are 371 "hospital establishments" in ontario, but OHA says that only about 1/5th of those are eligible to perform the type of critical care Covid ICU patients would need.
I was wondering about that, but my data analysis is only as good as my data/sources.
One source said Canada has 708 public hospitals and an additional seven private ones.
Luckily, the numbers are so ABSURDLY LOW, rhat even with a TENFOLD increase in deaths, this pandemic would BARELY be discernable to rhe average person, even WITH YOUR ADJUSTMENTS [which I will address later today if anyone can tell me how many hospitals are in Canada.
I've yet to meet one person who even notices we are in a "pandemic" after TWO YEARS OF THIS.
This is literally INSANE.
Maybe my friend Jake, who lost his grandfather...but he was 78 YEARS OLD WHEN HE DIED, AND A LIFETIME SMOKER.
On top of that, Canadian hospitals were already experiencing a massive, extremely well-publicized bed crunch prior to the pandemic. In that OHA response, they address the exact number of available beds and the exact number of patients from covid at that time (which was 23% of all available beds. ) So, even assuming your other numbers are accurate (which I haven't bothered checking) , excluding 80% of "hospital establishments" makes a big change, especially when you keep in mind that treating covid is very resource intensive. Covid patients have longer than average stays and most medical facilities are still practicing some form of distancing/isolation while treating patients.
That's more proof of what a cluster-fuck this is:
Canada has had TWO YEARS to address the hospital capacity issues.
TWO YEARS.
Canada has spent $900 billion dollars during this pandemic - more money than the entire history of debt accumulated IN ALL OF CANADA'S HISTORY PRIOR TO THIS HYPED PANDEMIC.Furthermore:
Do you know how many ICU beds the Thunder Bay Regional Health Science Services Centre has?
22.
22!
TWENTY TWO!
For a city that services over 120,000 Canadians including a disproportionate numbers of Indigenous people, who disproportionately use hospital beds [while it gets blamed on the White people helping them], WE HAVE 22 BEDS.DO YOU THINK MAYBE AFTER TWO ****ING YEARS, AND $900 BILLION SPENT THAT MAYBE - JUST MAYBE - WE COULD HAVE INCREASED CAPACITY BY FOUR ****ING BEDS [THE NUMBER WE WERE "OVERWHELMED" BY LAST YEAR]??
WE SPENT OVER $25,000 PER CANADIAN, WHICH IS OVER $2,500,000,000 FOR A CITY THIS SIZE, AND...WHAT...WE COULDN'T HAVE ADDED FOUR ****ING BEDS, AND THE STAFF NECESSARY TO MAN THEM???
And off-topic only SLIGHTLY - why did Canada import 410,000 new citizens this year, with over 70% of them being refugees, and others in economic need, if our hospitals are so "overwhelmed"?