vivster said:
We wouldn't have an overwhelmed health system if this sickness was treated like every other sickness, i.e. we treat the symptoms and don't bind all of our resources to process light cases with the gravity as if it was aids. Just kidding, we don't even treat aids as aggressively as we treat this thing. The resources would be just fine if we ramped up production slightly while calming the public so that they won't steal all the stuff medical personnel needs. The virus can be handled just fine. The people panicking about it can't and that's where we run into issues. And that's where people like you come in. If you were actually concerned you would demand the exact same treatment and tests of people for every single flu season because it does the same thing. It kills people just because humans don't take it seriously. Where was your concern last year? And where will your concern be once this epidemic is over? Because news flash: people will still be dying of preventable diseases after this is over and you won't give a single shit because newspapers will have stopped telling you so. |
Do you not understand why they are attempting to slow the rate at which it spreads?
The problem is if you dont attempt to slow its spread, then you risk a massive quick "spike" of people all contracting it at once.
When that happends, the 15-20% that need to stay in a hospital, overwhelms the staff/rooms/respirators available, ect.
If that happends (too many get sick, all at once), doctors run into situtaions where they have to "pick and choose" who lives and who dies.
"I know this person dies, if he doesnt get a respirator, to help him breathe.
However, we dont have one... or we only have 1 left, but theres 300 others here that all need it." - possible doctor in future.
Thats when the "fun" starts, and deathrates sky rocket.
Doctors get traumas over basically killing patients and get suicidal ect.
The whole system can colapse if its enough of a clusterf***.
This is why they arnt trying to "kill off" the spread, but slow it down, so that the treatment capabilities of the hospitals can follow.
They want as many people that get this virus to survive it. That happends only if you can keep its spread rate low.
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"The virus can be handled just fine. The people panicking about it can't and that's where we run into issues. And that's where people like you come in. If you were actually concerned you would demand the exact same treatment and tests of people for every single flu season because it does the same thing. It kills people just because humans don't take it seriously. Where was your concern last year? And where will your concern be once this epidemic is over? Because news flash: people will still be dying of preventable diseases after this is over and you won't give a single shit because newspapers will have stopped telling you so." - Vivster
Your compairing it with a normal flu.... and ignoreing that it kills like 40 times more than a normal flu does.
With that, also comes a much higher % of people that need to be hospitalised (really sick) (compaired to a flu).
"the virus can be handled just fine"
Expect it cant, no country could afford to have that many people hospitalised.
No country spends that much on healthcare, or has that many doctors/rooms+beds, and respirators.
Unless your "handled just fine", means letting tons and tons of people die for no good reason.
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