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MikeWaters · 03-19-2020, 03:16 AM

1. We did not confine it at all. It has spread all across the country. It's not confined to Wuhan like China. Or to Northern Italy, as in Italy. Here in the USA we let it spread to every single major area. So we are going to get large outbreaks everywhere, first on the coasts, then in flyover country.

2. We have a lot of really sick people in the country. Lots of people with bad health. Lots of fat people. Diabetes. Hypertension. You name it.

3. We have a lot of vulnerable populations outside the sick. We have a large homeless population, prison population, slums etc.

4. We have a large cadre of persons who never or rarely access medical care and don't have insurance of any sort. For example, how many of the 20% of drivers in Dallas that don't have vehicular insurance actually have some kind of health insurance? There is a safety net system in Dallas that is de facto insurance, but still, you have a lot of people who will not intelligently utilize the healthcare system.

5. The utter and complete fiasco that is the lack of testing. This will be viewed as one of the greatest medical tragedies in American healthcare history.

6. The lack of PPE equipment. A lot of people are going to get sick because of this. We are talking about the healthcare workers that are interacting with confirmed or potential infected persons. None of the systems were prepared to have the level of equipment needed for such an emergency. What might have lasted for one month in regular circumstances now only lasts for 3 days. It's like we needed the healthcare system to act like paranoid preppers, but instead they saved money by using just-in-time inventory.

03-19-2020, 03:16 AM	#1
MikeWaters Demiurge Join Date: Aug 2005 Posts: 36,365	I'm afraid the coronavirus is going to very bad in the USA 1. We did not confine it at all. It has spread all across the country. It's not confined to Wuhan like China. Or to Northern Italy, as in Italy. Here in the USA we let it spread to every single major area. So we are going to get large outbreaks everywhere, first on the coasts, then in flyover country. 2. We have a lot of really sick people in the country. Lots of people with bad health. Lots of fat people. Diabetes. Hypertension. You name it. 3. We have a lot of vulnerable populations outside the sick. We have a large homeless population, prison population, slums etc. 4. We have a large cadre of persons who never or rarely access medical care and don't have insurance of any sort. For example, how many of the 20% of drivers in Dallas that don't have vehicular insurance actually have some kind of health insurance? There is a safety net system in Dallas that is de facto insurance, but still, you have a lot of people who will not intelligently utilize the healthcare system. 5. The utter and complete fiasco that is the lack of testing. This will be viewed as one of the greatest medical tragedies in American healthcare history. 6. The lack of PPE equipment. A lot of people are going to get sick because of this. We are talking about the healthcare workers that are interacting with confirmed or potential infected persons. None of the systems were prepared to have the level of equipment needed for such an emergency. What might have lasted for one month in regular circumstances now only lasts for 3 days. It's like we needed the healthcare system to act like paranoid preppers, but instead they saved money by using just-in-time inventory.