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Soaring already DOA for the season???
This is from a friend who is a physician, passed on with permission.Â* I
chose to keep his identity private. Of course you can share! It's all info from reputable sources: WHO, Reuters, CDC. On Monday, March 23, 2020, 10:30:01 AM MDT, Dan Marotta wrote: Excellent analysis, thanks! And, as we just discussed on the phone, I am doing all of the recommended things, not out of fear but out of a sense of personal preservation.Â* I understand that there are people who, out of a sense of bravado will do stupid, even destructive things. May I share what you've written to me?Â* I'll keep your identity private. Dan On 3/23/2020 9:54 AM, *** wrote: We have a vaccine for the flu. The mortality for the flu is 0.1% We don't have a vaccine for this. It's mortality is 2-4%. The Chinese shut down a city of 11 million people... The Italians are rationing care.... You need scary data? Check out Reuters Global covid tracker. Check out the curves on the number of cases per country. check out the overall mortality. People have good reason to be scared and the fear is good. Fear makes people isolate themselves and decrease the speed of spread. The opposite, people that carry on like nothing is happening, will overwhelm your healthcare system. If that happens, we won't have enough ventilators, enough personal protection equipment, or enough providers. People will then start dying of routine conditions (in addition to the coronavirus) that they easily survived before (with appropriate care). For example if all our ICU's are packed with people on ventilators because of coronavirus and you have a heart attack there is no ICU for you....If there are no hospital beds available because of the virus, someone with a bowel obstruction (treated with IVF's in 98% of cases) will perish because of lack of services. If your surgeon is sick and you have appendicitis, you'll die from another routine condition... In all honesty, I think we lost control of the situation a few weeks ago (ie new york), I would expect complete chaos in the next 3 months. This will include curfews, strict enforcement of quarantines, and overall disregard for our civil rights.At this late stage, even this is not going to prevent the massive loss of life. Unless the virus changes or there are some seasonal effects expect 1-2 million american deaths in the next 12 months. Hope I'm wrong... On 3/22/2020 9:35 PM, 5Z wrote: Another thing to keep in mind is that all medical personnel will be busy dealing with sick people, so any accidents we may have while having fun will be adding unnecessary stress on the system. So unnecessary driving and any other potentially dangerous activities should be kept to a minimum. Lots of collateral effects with this pandemic. 5Z -- Dan, 5J |
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