Re: Corona Virus: is it the beginning of the end?
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Again, in the particular instance of that article, I don't know for sure what happened. But in general, congratulations for adding yourself to the long list of people who don't get this.
They can't try. There aren't enough doctors to try. There are no beds to put the patients in. There are no ventilators to put the patients on. We've been doing things like risky procedures that try to split a ventilator between two patients already. Even if you assume infinite equipment there's not enough doctor to go around. If each patient takes 30 minutes a day, and they take much more than that, that means one doctor can only treat 50 people a day. Assuming they don't sleep or eat, which is of course impractical, so cut it to maybe 20. That assumes the doctor doesn't get covid.
by the time you need specialized medical equipment right now you're screwed. That applies to anything, not just covid. Hope you don't have a stroke or something. There just isn't enough. There could have been; we could have slowed the virus, or Trump could have used the executive orders he loves to write to actually produce things like ventilators or etc etc etc. But it was mismanaged. In general, don't blame the doctors. The doctors *are* trying. But if there's no resources there's no resources. You can't wish intensive care units into being, they cost hundreds of thousands of dollars each and we don't have the manufacturing pipeline to produce them quickly. It takes multiple years to train a doctor. It's a lose-lose situation. The only way to win was for people in government to take it seriously 4 months ago.
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