The splinter is out!! I wrote a post about it on that other site. :-D

Everyone is always trying to reduce costs and improve efficiency. Every dollar saved in healthcare or education is a dollar the politicians can give to their corporate buddies in subsidies.

What kind of sensor?--what was it sensing?

These gurneys in a hallway sound like an emergency room situation. In general, however, all emergency rooms have privacy curtains around the beds.

Sometimes they get overwhelmed--like right now due to successive waves of covid. There was a recent news story about a hospital that had so many covid patients that they moved beds into the coffee shop. Stuff like that is always good fodder for the insurance company lobbyists to try and cause trouble.

The worst thing that happened here is that our Premier made some really bad Covid policy decisions and it resulted in the need to airlift 27 severely ill covid patients to Ontario. So many people were severely ill and required ICU care that we ran out of medical staff to take care of them all. That was a month from hell. Everything is ok now though--in terms of hospital space.