CORONAVIRUS Death Thread

[Vizax_Xaziv]

Originally Posted by Gatorsmash [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

The recession is going to be the appetizer, since the admin and cdc have chosen to go the dont test route, when ICU's max out in a month from the 20% who will need it to recover and we physically dont have them like Italy- who also went the dont test route- then things are really going to crater

Even scarier is the possibility of insolvency of Health Insurance Companies. Will they have the capacity to deal with the possible influx of tens-of-thousands of hospitalizations in just a months time?

Either we're gonna see insurance companies declaring bankruptcy or, more likely, they'll do what the banks did in 2008 - wait til they're already insolvent before they notify the the government causing another "too big to fail" situation where they're poised to request a "bailout" of some kind. Question then becomes whether the Fed has any money to actually bail them out.

People keep saying "there's only 1,000 cases in the US. It's no big deal" etc etc. They don't seem to understand that the 1) We're barely testing anyone in the US and 2) The outbreak is just starting here. China completely shutdown all of Hubei Province and STILL ended up with hundreds-of-thousands of REPORTED infected (who knows what the actual numbers are). Meanwhile the US has done literally NOTHING for the past month while in all likelihood the disease was spreading undetected all throughout the country.

This is a total fucking shitshow!

[Vizax_Xaziv]

BONUS FACT: Despite the enormous cost of healthcare in the US hospitals are only required to have one nurse per THREE ICU beds!

In just about every other country it's a one nurse per bed policy - all while costing them a fraction of our expense!

Gee I wonder why that is?

[Zeboim]

Originally Posted by Vizax_Xaziv [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Even scarier is the possibility of insolvency of Health Insurance Companies. Will they have the capacity to deal with the possible influx of tens-of-thousands of hospitalizations in just a months time?

Either we're gonna see insurance companies declaring bankruptcy or, more likely, they'll do what the banks did in 2008 - wait til they're already insolvent before they notify the the government causing another "too big to fail" situation where they're poised to request a "bailout" of some kind. Question then becomes whether the Fed has any money to actually bail them out.

Almost like medicine and healthcare shouldn't be a for profit private industry in the first place or something.

[galach]

Perfect storm for Bernie to come back and win with his universal healthcare. It's now or never.

[Ennewi]

American status quo: Medicare for all would ruin our economy.
COVID-19: Hold my Corona.

[magnetaress]

Everyone should roll a necro in honor of COVID19 and just be like charname Covidone Covidtwo, etc

[Gatorsmash]

Originally Posted by Vizax_Xaziv [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

BONUS FACT: Despite the enormous cost of healthcare in the US hospitals are only required to have one nurse per THREE ICU beds!

In just about every other country it's a one nurse per bed policy - all while costing them a fraction of our expense!

Gee I wonder why that is?

Wife is the RN director of a extended-long term care center. Its 1 (one) RN and 2 assistants per 25 after 3pm? Or something like that ( rarely listened) and it's even more patients per nurse on the 11pm to 7am night shift.

And they all work multiple sites, along with temp staff RN's. When that virus starts hitting those centers they are fuuucked. It will be in and rolling long before people know.

I cant even watch the PA gov updates anymore. The incompetence listening to these clowns talk about shit they clearly dont understand makes my anxiety redline.

[magnetaress]

It already is because the actual vector for this virus to the at risk patiets is the nursing & ALF staff themselves.

They don't care if the nurses get sick. They only care if it can be traced to a sick nurse bringing it in. They aren't going to test for it because it has been in the wild for so long everyone has practically had it this season. Some of us got it worse than others.

The hospitals are going to make good money from this because of the ICU cases. They aren't going to stress about keeping the infection, reinfection rates low.

[Hoppkins_Wytchfinder]

Funny how all the people saying this outbreak was fake have suddenly disappeared.

[Tethler]

Originally Posted by magnetaress [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Everyone should roll a necro in honor of COVID19 and just be like charname Covidone Covidtwo, etc

I saw a "Covid" in the tunnel the other day on green.