2/13//23

 Monday, February 13, 2023

In bed about 9:30, awake at 4:48,, up at 4:56 with text message purportedly from Amazon telling me my account has been suspended and 'click here' for information.'  Let Lilly out at 5.  32℉, wind W at12 mph, ranging from 5 to 15 mph, gusts up to 29 mph, high of 43  ℉ expected, with wind chills from 21 to 37℉.  Sunrise at:52, sunset at 5:20,10+27.

American Capitalism & 'the best health care system in the world.'  From this morning's WaPo: "A recent investigation by the New York Times revealed that many American hospitals have spent years pursuing an “industrywide movement” of keeping labor costs low by wringing “more work out of fewer employees.” Indeed, hospital administrators often measure success by determining how much they can lower operating expenses by reducing the number of “employees per occupied bed.” In other words, low staffing levels are not a result of the coronavirus pandemic, staff burnout or a tight labor market — they are a business model.  Simultaneously, as hospitals save money by cutting staffing, hospital marketing budgets have skyrocketed. According to a report in the Journal of the American Medical Association, between 2004 and 2016, direct-to-consumer advertising by hospitals and health-care systems jumped 74 percent to $1.4 billion per year" . . . ."If spending on advertisements is nonnegotiable but hiring enough nurses to save patients’ lives isn’t, who is our health-care system truly serving? At what point can it be said that this system has lost its way and the [profit] margin has, in fact, become the mission?"

UFOs?  Balloons, 'octagonal object,' 'cylindrical object??  Alaska, Yukon, Lake Huron, South Carolin coast?  Wazupwidat?  

Hope in Israel, Hope for Israel.  Huge demonstrations in Israel for 'rule of law,' independent judiciary.

CPP  All day, hobbling.