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"The challenge for these quarantines is that it does not have proper medical facilities as opposed to patients staying at hospitals."

In any non-communist country, this would be called a death camp.

Bring Out Your Dead

Post to me or FReep mail to be on/off the Bring Out Your Dead ping list.

The purpose of the “Bring Out Your Dead” ping list (formerly the “Ebola” ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.

So far the false positive rate is 100%.

At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the “Bring Out Your Dead” threads will miss the beginning entirely.

*sigh* Such is life, and death...

If a quarantine saves just one child's life, it's worth it.

[familyop]

"In any non-communist country, this would be called a death camp."

About how many beds per person do we have on average in the States? I see one mostly rural area with roughly 200 beds per 200,000--one per 1,000 people, maybe. Some larger cities might appear to be better equipped, except that they also serve vast rural areas.

Outrageous medical costs have shunted many people away from bothering with doctors and hospitals--even some with visible cancerous lesions and obvious conditions indicating heart disease. Many of those who are insured and using the system are hospitalized or otherwise treated for problems from drug abuse and promiscuity.