delta is still here and having an impact here in massachusetts and in new england more broadly. there s been a spike in cases in the weeks leading up to thanksgiving. on friday, just after thanksgiving, massachusetts reported 5,000 new cases. at mass general hospital behind me here they re actively treating 40 people with covid. this emerging new variant is coming at an inconvenient time for the hospital system in this region, because it s extremely strained for resources. that s not necessarily because there s a high rate of hospitalization for covid right now, there s not. but there are some serious pandemic-related stress impacts here in the system, primarily that physicians and nurses in this area are completely burnt out and many of the most critical departments are low on staffing. so right now, hospital groups are having conversations about potentially having to delay important procedures, say you re waiting on a hip replacement or a treatment for your kidneys. if it s not immed
and you said more people commit good crimes. i am not saying more people commit crimes. i am saying the stress impacts how they inter interact with their children. they can t help it. either they pay less attention or the wrong attention. and the children were perceptive. i understand that. that s why remi you said before i said that part. i agree with mike, and i just took it one step further from my practice. my point is, it will be interesting to see if this will hold true for kids born during this recession as it has apparently for 9 one in the 80ss. this recession does seem to be the first time since world war ii that crime rates haven t gone up during an economic downturn. that s interesting. so the study then is perhaps not accurate? well, we won t know until the kids are born during this recession. maybe they are so bloody
might be some comfort in this moment. yes, and that is the comfort that we look for. and we have people who go the narcotics anonymous, and they don t necessarily believe in god, but they believe in a power greater than themselves, because they can t shoulder it by themselves anymore, so they turn it over to the group. they turn it over to a congregation, and they turn it over to friend, and that is what is happening here. people who may not even be into spirituality or religion are going to be at the churches or the other houses of worship to mourn together. that is what is important. right. and that collectivity, and joy, you and i were talking about being parents yesterday, and one of the sort of traumatic stress impacts for those of us as parents and i was late to work because i could not stop, i could not stop hugging my daughter and playing with her and chatting wither h and you were telling your son to take the hoodie down post trayvon martin and yes, it is newtown and yes,