Let's talk reality.

COVID creates this very situation: your closest hospital can't take more patients so you ambulance to a distant hospital and there you die.

Hurricanes create this very situation: flooding destroys your closest hospital's emergency generators and... https://twitter.com/slashdot/status/1306595341458837504
Let's CONTINUE to talk reality.

Black people in general die needlessly in hospital ERs. Here's CCTV footage of a Black woman who died in ER. She laid dead for HOURS.

A nurse got fired for manipulating her ER records in a coverup.
Now let's review the HISTORY of reality.

In WWI, Marie Curie offered to melt her two solid-gold Nobel prizes to fund what the French Minister of War DETESTED -- saving lives & limbs on the battlefield. He relented ONLY to stop her going to the media.
And since we talked about France in WWI, let's recognize the history of this dead patient's home country: GERMANY

Teutonic hospitals pre-WWII straight up KILLED their own German citizens w/ infirmities, retardation, or born to "Zigeunerin" mothers
https://www.securityweek.com/german-hospital-hacked-patient-taken-another-city-dies
And since we're talking about history, let's review the horrific U.S. policy of SEGREGATED HOSPITALS

Black patients couldn't go to the nearest hospital if it was for whites only

In many cases, Black patients went to the BASEMENT for lifesaving help https://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2015/07/30/desegregation-the-hidden-legacy-of-medicare
Okay, enough history; let's talk TODAY'S reality

Hospital medical files are RIFE w/ errors

I considered linking to the #anecdote of patients who overdosed on radiation treatment

But instead I chose this #analysis from NIH's Nat'l Library of Medicine:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2656002/
Let's continue to talk about reality.

Racist patients w/ life-threatening issues QUITE OFTEN refuse to visit the nearest hospital, or they leave ER, when they discover their attending physician is a POC or Jew or Muslim or Hindu or... https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-doctors-deal-with-racist-patients-1516633710
Okay, let's wrap up our #cybersecurity talk on the reality of patients dying NEEDLESSLY in hospitals

If you think today's hospital #ransomware story is "significant"

Then you MUST answer the question I've posed multiple times since #WannaCry's debut: https://twitter.com/vmyths/status/1260318310744371201
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