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Originally Posted by Chief Pagan
This is what a collapse of the hospital system looks like.
No, it doesn't have to mean the doors are shut and people are bleeding to death in the parking lot.
It means the system can't provide the level of critical care that it used to and real people suffer real consequences.
This is why in the short term we want to spread out the current wave of cases.
And in the medium/long term it would probably be useful if society could figure out how to entice more medical workers into and staying in the system.
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One way they could entice more medical workers is to lighten the load.
One way they could lighten the load is to stop spreading so much ****ing fear.
I was at the doctor (sick) the other day and they said 90% of their appointments that day were requests for COVID tests. They said about HALF of those were people with no symptoms - people that were going to the doctor because they were scared they might have COVID because somebody they knew had it.
The media is doing our healthcare workers a great disservice by continuing to harp on this like it's some great plague. There's difference between an informed public and an inflamed public.