03-23-2020, 05:30 PM
(I see my post has been moved. Sorry I didn't notice that there was already a thread on this topic)
Hi:
I am sorry if this is not a topic for this forum and I hope it doesn't steer towards a political discussion, but I think it is very important. I was posting somthing like this in another forum, and I thought it can be useful if I also share it here:
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Guys: stay at home if you can, and only go out if you have to.
I am telling you: in Spain we thought we had a quite good health system. Now it is collapsed, with people needing to be in hospital being told to go back home, just because there are no beds for everyone. In hospital there are only so many respirators, so they have to choose to which person asign it to: if you have previous diseases, or you are old, probably the respirator will go to someone considered to have a higher chance of surviving. People at the hospital is already working overtime, and they are getting infected too, so manpower is decreasing and situation is worsening quite fast.
The risk of this virus is the expansion rate more than it's severity. Only a small percentage need intensive care, but that small proportion of a huge population is already too big for the ammount of beds available in intensive care. Even the morgues are collapsed. This is no joke!
In addition: if someone needs to give birth, or requires an appendectomy, or has a broken bone, or needs a few stitches due to a stupid bicycle crash... it's going to be tough to find any attention at the hospital.
Stay at home, for your own sake, but also for others'.
Hi:
I am sorry if this is not a topic for this forum and I hope it doesn't steer towards a political discussion, but I think it is very important. I was posting somthing like this in another forum, and I thought it can be useful if I also share it here:
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Guys: stay at home if you can, and only go out if you have to.
I am telling you: in Spain we thought we had a quite good health system. Now it is collapsed, with people needing to be in hospital being told to go back home, just because there are no beds for everyone. In hospital there are only so many respirators, so they have to choose to which person asign it to: if you have previous diseases, or you are old, probably the respirator will go to someone considered to have a higher chance of surviving. People at the hospital is already working overtime, and they are getting infected too, so manpower is decreasing and situation is worsening quite fast.
The risk of this virus is the expansion rate more than it's severity. Only a small percentage need intensive care, but that small proportion of a huge population is already too big for the ammount of beds available in intensive care. Even the morgues are collapsed. This is no joke!
In addition: if someone needs to give birth, or requires an appendectomy, or has a broken bone, or needs a few stitches due to a stupid bicycle crash... it's going to be tough to find any attention at the hospital.
Stay at home, for your own sake, but also for others'.