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Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop
We have a health-care system that is designed to operate at near-full capacity in the ordinary course, so that we don't pay for facilities that we are not using. We can't handle a big surge in cases. Heart attacks and strokes and seizures and the like are going to continue, but there are only so many ICU beds and they are going to be full.
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We're talking here about doubling or tripling the number of ICU cases.
In Italy, they are simply picking who is likely to survive and who isn't. Docs are deciding who lives and who dies. And dies badly - suffocating effectively.
We will have situations where younger people with injuries unrelated to covid will be prioritized over older covid patients. That will be terrifically ugly for a country where everyone thinks it makes sense to spend ungodly sums to keep the very old alive for a few more months at the end, in usually rotten circumstances.
If you know a doc, nurse, or other provider, when this is all done, buy him or her a drink. They're going to go thru some miserable shit. And a number of them are going to die.
