[pterional]

If the hysteria gets that bad during a flu pandemic I doubt the hospitals will be able to function. I can't imaging thousands of people trying to get their love ones into the ER. The thin veneer of civility in our current society will crack and the rules of anarchy will apply. Physicians, nurses and law enforcement presence will evaporate. Look at what happened in New Orleans. The facade of government security will vanish and human self dependency and the laws of nature will rule. God have mercy on us.

In India if you don't have enough money to get into the hospital to be placed on a ventilator the physicians will intubate you but your family members must take turns to squeeze the ambu bag to keep you alive.

[goat granny]

Unless it is life or death stay away from hospitals. They have the largest concentration of germs of any building...Only if absolutely necessary...Hospitals are also a great place to pick up a multitude of bugs that you didn't come in with...Thats why you rarely see doctors or nurses as patients in hospitals...

Surgery is one exception, but cleanliness is absolutely necessary, going in and coming out...The best preventative health care is simple hand washing...

[Global2010]

LOL Thats how they got all those tele marketing accounts...