From Bad Cattitude

How to make the hospitals (and the rest of the island while you’re at it) a mess:

A simple 3 step plan to turn new years eve into the rodeo of 1000 goats and send hotels and hospitals alike into a tailspin.

Step 1: mandate covid tests on top of vaccine proof for all large gatherings and for flying into puerto rico

Step 2: panic everyone into wild over-testing

Step 3: completely run out of not only rapid tests but even the actual reagents for PCR such that you literally cannot get a covid test on PR for love or money

This 3 step plan has literally inundated the emergency rooms with healthy people trying to get PCR tests so they can go to concerts, clubs, and big hotel parties for NYE.

pretty much every event over 100 people is demanding it.

In flawless, on point irony, the ER’s are struggling to provide the actual emergency care for which they are intended because of this and we’re having, for the first time all covid, an actual crisis at the hospitals, not because of disease, but because people want to hit the el san juan hotel party or club 787.

It’s going to be the perfect lose/lose scenario as these parties are going to get gutted because guests cannot enter, the ER’s are on tilt, and who knows how the incoming tourists or locals coming home are supposed to get a test within 48 hours of landing (per new rules).

Apparently, trips and reservations are getting cancelled wholesale over it.

Probably 1/3 of the restaurants in san juan are closed because staff got a positive covid test and the rest cannot get cleared with negatives as no tests are available.

So the health minister responds by cutting restaurant capacity to 50%. so now it’s bedlam everywhere.

A restaurateur i know said he’s forbidden his employees to get tested because if they do, he’ll get closed down. i doubt very strongly he’s the only one.

Cruise ships are refusing to stop here because the rules are impossible.

It’s the boriqua classic:
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Fully’s comment

I don’t know about you all but I am having a BLAST watching all this man made chaos over the Common Cold 🙂