Ciao Donald Its great get a response from someone who works in healthcare & KNOWS pattern.
My general stupid idea as Joe Average is that properly supporting healthcare matters the most. Obviously an issue is infection in medical staff who are most exposed. But who also most well equipped to grasp precautions and recognise they might need to isolate. Italy, in the North, has, unfortunately, given a somewhat misleading image on death rate. Simply because we have a very large aged vulnerable population. The average death rate overall is factors below Italy. TT On Monday, 16 March 2020 04:23:16 UTC+1, Donald Coates wrote: > > Thank you very much for this it validates what I was thinking. Here is a > FB post I wrote: > > A Realistic Perspective. > > The problem, as usual, is that both sides contain an element of truth. If > you're reading this and don't work in healthcare or are not consistently > using its services, you have little or nothing to panic about on a personal > level. All the closings are being done to prevent the spread of infection - > necessary supply chains are necessary - they are not going to be broken and > you will continue to have access to toilet paper and food. > > However. For this situation classify every person by how often they are > admitted to the hospital in a year. The majority of people involved in > necessary supply chains are on the same level as you and me - their number > is miniscule - they've been admitted into the hospital from never to a few > times in their entire lifespan. Covid is not going to change that. > Now we get to the 1 through 5's - people that are admitted 1 to 5 times a > year. Most years these people cycle through the hospital at different times > through the year and we can handle it. > It is highly likely that soon a lot of the 3-5's are all going to be sick > enough to be admitted within a very short time span, and soon after that a > lot of the 1-2's. Those 1-5's, their families, and the people like me that > care for them are all going to be experiencing - well I don't want to try > and describe it because I'm basically in tears reading about the people > abroad that are already going through this. > The only way it is going to seriously affect anyone that is less than a 1 > is if you do get sick from Covid and need to be evaluated, or if you have > an experience that requires emergency intervention - the chances of which > remain the same as they have always been. In that case the health care > infrastructure that exists to take care of you will be severely strained. > Yes that is scary but not that much more scary than the constant fact that > it may happen in the first place. > > Most likely you'll be watching this from afar which is how it should be. > Stop freaking out over toilet paper and food and just get ready to support > the people that are going to be neck deep in this shit storm. The only way > we get through it is together. > > >> Meanwhile herein in Northern Italy, current centre of the virus in >> Europe, there is no panic buying at all I have seen & I have had no >> problems yet buying anything. Its a pretty relaxed atmosphere. Bit of >> frustration, yes. Bit weird meeting people in masks. But today, Sunday >> morning, people walked their dogs as usual. >> >> TT >> >> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/8fbfbf54-5e80-494d-9455-882a4886ade3%40googlegroups.com.
