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Originally Posted by fiveohwblow
Have people stay at home with cold like symptoms? Never in history did we have people flocking in massive quantities for emergent health care in a situation that was 99% recoverable. Should we seek Fauci next time we have a tooth ache? Or maybe we stop trying to fit a round peg into a square hole.
The issue is a certain “side” has turned fear into a virtue. Thoughts and posts like yours signal for the highest level, or at least buy into it.
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I agree that people need to stay home when they have symptoms. Cold? Flu? Corona? Let's wait and see. Here we agree.
But with the rest we don't. Germany publishes it's number of available ICU beds, as do many EU nations. And you don't end up in one if you show up at the hospital with a minor fever.
So to simply say that it's just a tooth ache is indecorous at best.
As of Monday I will be under lockdown again. Germany had nearly 15,000 new cases yesterday, and the hospitals are filling up. Rational decisions drive the behavior of the heads of the German states. And the warning of health experts in US or elsewhere, who strangely all say the same thing by the way. As much as you and posts like yours try to make it seem political, it's not.
It's rational. There is a breaking point of the medical system, and the aim is to keep the infections below that point, while trying to stay open.
I project (just my opinion) that in the US this will also happen soon. Much like it followed the first wave in EU. Unless people take measures, which doesn't seem likely.