Moving on

[DonH]

To add to all the the info KML provided, that I would echo, pretty much anything but true emergecies or covid cases are being indefinitely postponed. So hip transplants, knee replacment, etc unless they like have a new fracture and can’t stand or something. Even more serious things are put on hold. The New England Journal of Medicine released a great article about this over the weekend. It includes actual cases like a cardiac case that nearly died because at first they told him to wait. Luckily that got over-ridden but he decompensated on the table. The article talks about setbacks for cancer and a large variety of issues related to putting near all focus on covid while ignoring nearly everything else.

My state has tested about 50,000 people. About 4,500 have tested positive while 46,000 have tested negative. As of today 420 covid patients were hospitalized. The state population is about 5.5 million. There are 1,900 ISU beds and about 13,000 hospital beds throughout the stare. The thing is most are currently empty. On top of this they have built a temporary overflow hospital that, like Washington state did, will likely see zero patients and then be torn down - this while laid off hospital workers and empty beds sit idle. Just the money wasted on that could potentially have paid some unemployment for those laid off.

There is so much more to all of this than flattening the curve. The unintended consequences will be so far reaching and not fully understood until all of this is over. I could go on and on and perhaps I will on my own thread. Thing is my state is far from unique. 4,600 covid patients. 224 covid deaths. 379 flu deaths 2017=2018 season with barely a peep and no drastic action. 300,000 unemployment filings in the last 30 days. There is way way more to this than CNN and MSNBC are telling you.