Posted on 03/06/2020 10:19:16 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
We have already been told as long as we are symptom free we are to continue to work. My daughter who is currently a resident has been told the same thing
At least hand sanitizer I can understand. You cannot buy toilet paper in any store in the metro area right now! seriously!
We will know soon if that's good advice or not.
“I’m still waiting to die from the Ebola virus or swine flu ( the last coved virus).”
And there was MERS and SARS that we survived. Amazing, but still there are those who want PANIC.
who knows? ur if every HCW exposed to a case goes into quarantine we will be out of HCW in a week or two. Pick your poison....
Jim likes to panic. Since most HC workers are younger, their risk picture is way better than the 98% of deaths reported in the US. Stay safe and thanks for serving.
thank you. I am not younger I am nearing 60. However I am not afraid of this one. So far it is not as bad as H1N1 was
I doubt that many doctors in Italy would agree with you.
The key words are “so far.”
The problem with your line of thought is that by the time you have enough information to change your mind, it will be too late to do the things that must be done very soon.
Strong mitigation practices should be put in place NOW.
what are you proposing ? we are a free society not China and there is little that can be done to prevent the spread at this point - not even padlocking people into entire buildings would likely help.
Sadly, a lot, many of the people here aint our own.
I think at 65 and healthy you'd have a better than a lot of the Americans I see walking around 20 or 30 years younger than you.
If this hits the hospitals in the US the way it has in other countries, the insurance companies will go bankrupt.
And very few inundated hospitals will keep up with “billing.”
The normalcy bias in the country would be a hilarious movie if it weren’t’t so sad.
It costs about 1,500 to set it up.
Costs are not going to matter if they are patients into friggin tents on the lawn.
I would not be surprised to see the fed govt end up paying for a lot of this to prevent wholesale financial collapse of hospitals and insurance companies. It would be the right thing to do. You simply cannot plan for the day the black swan flies in and lands in your lake.
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