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I think more old people have died of natural causes than coronavirus since this all started.
wth is going on?
That is true.
However, this is the "real deal". We just had a medical staff meeting about this. All of the precautions and measures taken are 100% appropriate. The only way this crisis turns out better than the Spanish Flu is through aggressive policies to curb the spread.
This is a real medical crisis and people should understand that it is not an overblown hoax. We just banned elective surgical cases to preserve resources; gloves, masks, and gowns are already in short supply. Discussions were made of using the anesthesia machines in the OR as ventilators and using the OR rooms as urgent (ICU rooms).
Hospitals and physician practices are not committing economic suicide for nothing. Think about that for a few minutes.
However, this is the "real deal". We just had a medical staff meeting about this. All of the precautions and measures taken are 100% appropriate. The only way this crisis turns out better than the Spanish Flu is through aggressive policies to curb the spread.
This is a real medical crisis and people should understand that it is not an overblown hoax. We just banned elective surgical cases to preserve resources; gloves, masks, and gowns are already in short supply. Discussions were made of using the anesthesia machines in the OR as ventilators and using the OR rooms as urgent (ICU rooms).
Hospitals and physician practices are not committing economic suicide for nothing. Think about that for a few minutes.
Pearls before swine, hawkeye. This has been explained ad nauseam here on this board. Those who are determined to remain willfully ignorant are ignoring all the explanations, and instead are whining like the OP. Your experience and wisdom is not enough to get through to them.
It’s more doing what we can to help the medical system not completely collapse. It’s not just about people dying from COVID 19, but the people who will die from other preventable causes because there is no space or equipment to treat them. All those that get in serious car accidents, go into anaphylactic shock, have a stroke, etc. These people will also die since there won’t be any space, equipment, or staff to help them.
A couple hundred old people? Don't you understand that this is only the beginning? If we do nothing now, it will be in the millions. Actions now should save lives later. Does that not matter to you?
I think more old people have died of natural causes than coronavirus since this all started.
wth is going on?
I agree with you too, but not for the same reasons. We are deliberately causing an economic depression and not solving the problem of COVID-19's spread. We are going about this all wrong. The whole idea behind stopping the spread of illness is quarantining. But we aren't doing it. Quarantining has to be strict. Instead, we're closing a lot of business but not others, many people are still working, people are out shopping, going to restaurants, parties, events, and continuing to spread the airborne virus. So all we're doing is shooting ourselves in the foot.
Closing all these businesses is not going to fix the problem when we're not really quarantining. People will still get COVID-19 and die. Meanwhile, people will also die from hunger and homelessness. Millions of jobs will be lost. Shutting down businesses will affect every industry, not just hospitality and travel. If people can't work, they will not be able to support themselves or their families. We will have an economic depression the likes of which we have never seen before. And for what? A virus that is mild for most of us and we'll all end up getting anyway.
We should quarantine the immunocompromised and elderly only who are less likely to be working, everyone else continue working their jobs as before, let the illness run through us since it is mild for most of us, and any of us who get it and need hospitalized will be able to get medical treatment since we're protecting the people most at risk. In the meantime we can support ourselves financially. But this approach is moronic and will ultimately fail.
Am I the only one that thinks it is insane we intentionally crashed our economy for a couple hundred old people?
I'm not in the camp of "sacrifice them to protect us." I believe the older people have just as much value and worth as the younger people do.
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