Name:   slowtimer - Subject:   Goat Island is a non regulated petting zoo Date:   5/22/2020 9:44:33 AM

This is very misleading.  The CEO of the hospital in Montgomery that made the statement that they only had 1 ICU bed left has since clairified but the news has not picked up that story...  They split their ICU beds into different sections and only had 2 total ICU beds dedicated to Covid-19 patients.  The other ICU beds were didicated to Non Covid-19 patients.  They could rearrange the Non Covid beds to accept Covid patients but had not at that moment.  In fact, that hospital only had 2 ICU beds dedicated to Covid-19 patients.  When you state that there is only 1 ICU bed left for Covid patients it meant that the hospital only had 1 Covid-19 patient in ICU.  

FYI, I know more about Covid-19 than probably anyone on this board.  I contracted it and tested positive early March.  I was the one of the first or first to test positive in Alabama.  I also have multiple other friends test positive and all of us have completely recovered with no lasting issues/problesm.  I nor my other friends have had any major problems with the virus.  Slight fever, slight chest pains, tiredness, etc.  The absolute worst symptom was that loss of taste and smell for a good 3 weeks.  I like to eat and drink some whiskey on occasion and all of a sudden the whiskey tasted horrible and the food didn't have any taste.

Please stop being so afraid of something that has a VERY small chance of killing you and live your life.  We are doing FAR more harm to ourselves with fear and economic destruction that Covid will ever do.  I have friends that are nurses and doctors who have been laid off because there are no patients in hospitals anymore!