A month ago, because fear and uncertainty levels were at an 11. Now? Apparently because they’ve been directed not to. I can’t speak for wherever you’re from, but PPE shortages aren’t a problem in Wisconsin. I did see your post earlier in the thread.
We’re treating the entire state like it’s Milwaukee, which is ridiculous.
Yeah, sorry, I haven’t kept up with the last few thousand posts. I get that it’s more easily spread than the regular seasonal flu, which is why overall death risk is higher even if actual fatality rates are the same or lower. Point made and acknowledged.
Inso’s mindset really does represent the average American: ignorant, uninformed and selfish.
From a political perspective, it’s basically impossible to get a pandemic response perfect. If you put in proper measures and the pandemic is mitigated, people will bitch about how the response was for nothing and that the media was lying about it. If you don’t put in proper measures, people get angry that you underreacted and let a bunch of people die.
That’s what we’re seeing from inso here. He sees a hospital that has a pandemic plan in place and goes, “Gee, this thing was nothing. Let’s open the country now!” Of course if that plan doesn’t exist, he bitches about how the government is letting so many people die from covid19.
TLDR: People like inso are stupid and shouldn’t be listened to
You guys can pour as much abuse on Inso0 as you want… the reality is that there are more people who think like him about this than there are of us. Which is why I have absolutely no hope left that we aren’t going to take max casualties. Because we are, and every model that includes any kind of semi meaningful precautions against spreading the infection is wrong about the final death total. The final death total will within a few % of the theoretical maximum.
How many people do you think would be willing to go into a doctor’s office for a routine physical right now, regardless of whatever the restrictions are?
I agree up until the last sentence. We may get some better treatments or vaccines by the end of it to reduce the mortality rate somewhat. Otherwise, pretty much. You’re also likely to see better mitigation from liberal cities, but unfortunately I’m told they’re likely to lose court cases when governors overrule them. So that’s liberal cities in blue states, only.
Good lord you are stupid. Your governor ordered hospitals to not do those procedures because their isn’t enough PPE to do them safely and take care of the current covid patient load. You want to add more covid patients to that? How the hell is that going to help? You think hospitals nation wide are operating at a fraction of their normal capacity for shits and giggles?
Pandemic plan successful. Hospitals have been sitting empty now for a few weeks. Time to open up.
You can’t honestly believe this. If you can find any respectable journal that suggests a 6% mortality rate as a legitimate number for COVID-19 then I guess I’ll have no choice but to delete my account.
The fatality rate is higher too you insufferable jackass. The flu kills .1%, this is AT LEAST killing .5%, likely will end up around .5 to 1.5%, and the current official mortality rate in the US is 5.98%.
And just by the way, of course hospitals aren’t empty, nor are they only taking care of covid patients. They are doing all their normal shit minus non-emergency procedures. In states that don’t suck including mine they are expanding emergency procedures only to include urgent procedures (like say cancer surgery). But yeah, your joint replacement might be put on the waiting list unless putting it off can cause irreparable harm.
OTOH states that suck are soon going to be overrun with covid patients further diminishing our National PPE and testing supply. So those of us in states that are sane will still get punished by the stupidity of Texas and Florida.
