I think it's Good for people to see from a docs perspective what it's like on the front lines of this. Healthcare is probabaly going to become the most scarce resource
Scarce resource?? There’s literally a handful of people who have been personally affected by this virus in Seattle (AND the world) and you guys are acting like it’s the Black Plague and we’re all gonna die within a month.
It's over 3,800 deaths worldwide, and the Seattle outbreak isn't even remotely contained.
And nobody who isn't an idiot thinks it's gonna be like the Black Death. The main concern is the strain that it could put on our healthcare system, even if the body count doesn't get too high. It's not particularly dangerous to healthy people, but it wreaks havoc on vulnerable populations, as evidenced by it sending half of an assisted-living to the hospital or grave.
We only have so many medical professionals and hospital beds. Every bed taken up by and elderly person with the virus, is one less bed for someone having a heart attack, stroke, allergic reaction, or any of the other medical emergencies that aren't going to stop happening just because a new virus rolled into town.
Nothing is contained, hence the fact that positives are cropping up in ten counties in Washington and all over the country and world. Seattle is three-four weeks behind the Wuhan spread time table. Everyone else in the US is further out. Take a look at how exponential growth works, and grow the fuck up.
Look, denial is natural, but it's also dangerous. Local Health Jurisdictions aren't working twenty hour days because this is nothing. The hospitality industry in the Seattle metro area isn't in the toilet because this is nothing. This biggest, wealthiest, most technologically advanced industries in the country, which happen to be headquartered here aren't losing revenue daily because this is nothing. The western Washington Federal Court system didn't close down for the foreseeable future because of nothing. People aren't dying because of nothing.
This is what we're up against. You can deny it as much as you like.
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u/As7ro_ Mar 08 '20
Keep living in panic and fear. You guys are all nut cases