If we were living in a World with no healthcare, were as soon as one would get sick we'd consider him done for, that virus wouldn't make much of a difference indeed.
Because that is what this disease is creating, a situation were healthcare facilities become so overwhelmed that not only salvageable new coronavirus cases cannot be treated, and thus become doomed to die, but all the other normal time patients face a situation where they might not be able to receive necessary care : ones appendicitis, another's car accident, that mother who faced complications in labor, this kid with severe asthma...
In countries such as Italy, France and Spain, we've got situations where :
-people are left to die, doctors having to select which patients they'll try saving
-some retirement homes have been outright abandoned, most if not all their residents dying, the most lucky at least receiving palliative care.
-less lucky ones are dying alone in their homes, or sometimes with an equally aged relative, with the corpse remaining for days before the overwhelmed funeral services can recover it
-the health workers themselves are heavily afflicted, making a significant percentage of case, taking casualties when they're the most needed.
"It is every citizen's final duty to go into the tanks, and become one with all the people."
~ Chairman Sheng-Ji Yang, "Ethics for Tomorrow"
r.i.p. alleria. 1997-2017. blizzard ruined alleria forever. blizz assassinated alleria's character and appearance.
i will never forgive you for this blizzard.
The reason we didn't produce our own things is because we raised the value of an American worker so much that it became cheaper to build in China. Unfortunately, China isn't a friend to the US, and they've been cutting off shipments for their own use. I don't know if you know history of the past 30 or so years, but that is what's happening, and why we are having issues.
Yeah m8, it's only 700 dead per day in Italy and Spain each. 10 pages of newspaper filled by mourning notes, while physicians have to decide who gets to live and who dies in overloaded hospitals. Relatives are saying goodbyes to their grans' over video conversations, as they proceed to be sedated and disconnected from health support, so they can die without suffering too much.
Totally not grim and disastrous. why it's your casual flu m8. Can't understand what's the worry, guess India putting 1.3 billion people on complete lockdown for 3 weeks and NY becoming a ghost town is just a media stunt.
Quite frankly, much of this situation is because of people like you, literally. Thinking it's some government conspiracy, media stunt or some kind of joke. Why I'm shocked you even post on forums, shouldn't you be getting some sun on the beach together with the hordes of other retards?
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Incentives? You realize why much of IT and even high tech is being outsourced to India? Because you have people there working for a fraction of what people in 1st world countries get.
In my case, for the salary I am getting here, you can hire 4-5 guys with the same skill set in India and these guys will be pretty damn good too. And I am not even in US, if I'd be getting US wage for what I do here, you'd have to bump that 4-5 number to 6-7 if not more. What incentive you propose to be given to my company? Coverage of my salary by the government?
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Nah retards are people like you who hoard toilet papers and preach fucking doomsday prophecies in forums all day and do nothing constructive. 700 people dead each day! Fucking doomsday is coming. We've never had hundreds of people dead from illnesses everyday ey? We already have isolation measures in place, then what more do you fucking want? If you are that heroic go to fucking hospitals or donate some quid and help out instead of QQing in the forums all day then? What have you fucking done for the situation except to whine and sob all day mate? You deserve a fucking Nobel Prize for repeating this shit ey?
Are you out of your mind?
You really want to tell me that what is going on in Italy, Spain and fucking New York is normal? Nothing to worry about, a okay?
What have I fucking done? Yes, m8, let me go ahead and open up my billions to toss it at the economy and medical equipment purchases, while beating politicians with a stick on dumb as fuck heads for not enforcing quarantine earlier or fucking at all.
I do, what every person with a fucking lick of sense does today - stay at home and only go out for provision and taking out trash. And yes, I sit on these forums telling people to be careful and to not take this situation as some kind of funny joke or non-issue, like some retards here seem to do.
I am not taking this lightly I just do not preach doomsday nonsense as the likes of your kind. Stop aiding the garbage media in further exacerbating fear and panic when the situation is tense enough already. This is not a doomsday scenario ffs. We just need to sit and wait out. Or better still help out in whatever ways we can
The only one who is full of shit here right now is you. Go preach your Corona flu media stunt to your fellow rednecks.
What I do with my time is of no your concern, I'm a dev working from home period right now and I'm lucky I can do this, unlike 20% of population that found themselves out of job in matter of 10 days, because media stunt durr.
Anyone with a pinch of common sense can see the shit is real. It's not some doomsday preaching, it's a full blown crisis and a very real danger to be careful of.
No we won't be in Mad Max world in a year, but you WILL have hundreds of thousands dead by the end of it and you will have people on the streets too. This will take years to recover.
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