# Coronavirus general discussion and chit-chat

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**Category:** The Quarantine Zone\
**Tags:** covid-quarantine\
**Created:** [August 12, 2020, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-general-discussion-and-chit-chat/917903 "2020-08-12T17:29:38Z")\
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**Author:** ![Bonum\_Legatum](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bonum_legatum/32/6183_2.png) [@Bonum\_Legatum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bonum_Legatum)\
**Post date:** [January 10, 2022, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-general-discussion-and-chit-chat/917903/1365 "2022-01-10T20:29:24Z")

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To flog this deceased equine: Reports that “Hospitals are at the breaking point.” No - they’ve passed the breaking point. The breaking point is now a just dot in the rear view mirror.

This post says it much better than I can.

> [@The Omicron Variant](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-omicron-variant/955134/393):
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> There’s a doctor in Boston who has been posting publicly (I see her posts shared on FB from friends) about COVID since the beginning. She calls herself “Robin-Schoenthaler-the-Boston-cancer-doctor-who-writes-about-Covid” and specifically says her content is sharable, so I want to share her most recent post in it’s entirety, which includes comments from doctors, nurses and hospital admins across Boston. I apologize for the long post, but it really gives you a sense of how overwhelmed the healthc…

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