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Old 28th Apr 2020, 20:19
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Slasher1
 
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Ya know, there's not this magical money Tree O' Health care in much of the world. There are places when the loss of a job may well mean your access to medical care just got a great deal worse than it was. So when you target fixate on ONE disease (which is in general really contagious, and really dangerous for a certain fraction of the population but relatively benign towards others) -- at the expense of everything else -- you kill people.

It's not like all the other diseases go away.

In the US, they've emptied out hospitals and literally banned 'elective' surgeries and preventative medicine to make room for COV patients who'll never show up. So what happens to these folks who now have their care at best pushed to the right several months ? Who otherwise might have had access to potentially life saving preventatives and diagnostics ? And to the laid off medical staff who now needs to regen to get back to work. While a doctor given a diagnosis can probably use his expertise to determine if care is essential at the time, it's impossible to look in from the outside with a broadband ban saying that some things are essential and these other things are not. Especially when driven by politicians and bureaucrats. So that preventative or elective might well be essential in reality; perhaps preventing a heart attack, embolism, or other serious condition from claiming a life.

I can see perhaps an ortho surgeon deciding for himself if it's in his (the doctors') best interest to be operating during a pandemic. But not some idiot in a tie making that decision for him.

So we are effectively killing people when we knee-jerk and overreact to one specific disease like this at the expense of everything else.
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