“It didn’t make sense to the physicians I watched talking about it. Other diagnoses do not over rule a broken leg, until Covid-19 came along. It’s not more urgent medically, particularly if the person is asymptomatic.”
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We haven’t had a pandemic for a century, so it’s likely the doctors haven’t seen anything like it in their lifetime. If Ebola had become pandemic, they would also have seen things they hadn’t before.
If the docs had been around in the 50s, a lot of things would be “deja vu all over again”:
“Many doctors resented the amount of fuss made about polio, and complained that all of this exaggerated fear diverted attention from more serious health threats. The majority of people who had polio never even knew it. Of those who were diagnosed, most recovered with little or no disability. In 1952, the worst epidemic year, three thousand people died from polio, while in 1950, thirty-four thousand died of tuberculosis. In 1957, 62,000 people died from influenza during a notorious epidemic. Although by this time a cure for polio had been discovered, the chances of contracting and dying from influenza were much greater than the chances of contracting and dying from polio even in years prior to this epidemic.”
http://www.plosin.com/beatbegins/projects/sokol.html
We haven’t had a pandemic for a century, so it’s likely the doctors haven’t seen anything like it in their lifetime.
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The video I watched included doctors discussing how Covid-19 is treated differently from all other infectious diseases. They noted, as immunologists, that quarantining healthy people is damaging to health because our immune systems require contact with pathogens to keep our immunity fine tuned and functioning. They seemed disgusted by the Covid-19 isolation of the HEALTHY.
They commented on the bizarre classification of a COPD patient as Covid-19 or classifying persons with a diagnosis of Covid as that person being hospitalized or dying FROM Covid-19. Medicine normally does not function like that.
It’s not that Covid-19 is different from other contagions, it’s that it’s politicized beyond belief to hamstring the economy of an entire nation for no reason.