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<blockquote data-quote="Super Kami Guru" data-source="post: 3773" data-attributes="member: 22"><p>I'd attribute that to more people staying home and therefore staying away from hospitals for anything not directly related to covid-19, which is good and bad and entirely related to the level of paranoia built up around the disease ("no, I don't want to go to the hospital, that's where everyone with symptoms of it is going!"). I was at a hospital very recently myself for issues I have with my legs, and it turned out I needed to be admitted for my own issues, spent two and half days there, and while there were measures in place to keep contact to a minimum (all nurses and doctors wore gloves and masks and certain patients required full coverings (gloves, masks, face shields, protective gowns/coverings)), the staff themselves were very relaxed about the whole situation. They dealt with me as normal, dealt with the other people in the ward I was in (which was a ward that deals with infectious diseases and wounds, I should point out, since that's what I was there for) completely normally, and when I talked with them openly about my own concerns most agreed that there was a level of paranoia behind everything that just is not warranted with this. Is there a disease going around? Absolutely. Is that disease causing deaths? Absolutely, but the recovery rate for that same disease is creeping higher every day. It's at, what? 90% recovery rate right now? There should be a vaccine soon enough, they're certainly working towards one rapidly, and if most cases diagnosed are asymptomatic or mild to the point of recovery easily, then all people need to consider is how to keep themselves occupied until this works itself out. </p><p></p><p>Stop the mass media paranoia, that just sends people off the deep end and promotes the panic buying and "the end is near!" mentality that started all of this in the first place. Misinformation is spreading like wildfire the second it gets tweeted, printed or spoken on the news, and that includes his Trumpness with his fake science tweets. If that stopped, and proper information got out there (like don't make your own hand sanitizer and hope that's enough to keep you safe, because it's not) then calm and rational mentalities would prevail.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Super Kami Guru, post: 3773, member: 22"] I'd attribute that to more people staying home and therefore staying away from hospitals for anything not directly related to covid-19, which is good and bad and entirely related to the level of paranoia built up around the disease ("no, I don't want to go to the hospital, that's where everyone with symptoms of it is going!"). I was at a hospital very recently myself for issues I have with my legs, and it turned out I needed to be admitted for my own issues, spent two and half days there, and while there were measures in place to keep contact to a minimum (all nurses and doctors wore gloves and masks and certain patients required full coverings (gloves, masks, face shields, protective gowns/coverings)), the staff themselves were very relaxed about the whole situation. They dealt with me as normal, dealt with the other people in the ward I was in (which was a ward that deals with infectious diseases and wounds, I should point out, since that's what I was there for) completely normally, and when I talked with them openly about my own concerns most agreed that there was a level of paranoia behind everything that just is not warranted with this. Is there a disease going around? Absolutely. Is that disease causing deaths? Absolutely, but the recovery rate for that same disease is creeping higher every day. It's at, what? 90% recovery rate right now? There should be a vaccine soon enough, they're certainly working towards one rapidly, and if most cases diagnosed are asymptomatic or mild to the point of recovery easily, then all people need to consider is how to keep themselves occupied until this works itself out. Stop the mass media paranoia, that just sends people off the deep end and promotes the panic buying and "the end is near!" mentality that started all of this in the first place. Misinformation is spreading like wildfire the second it gets tweeted, printed or spoken on the news, and that includes his Trumpness with his fake science tweets. If that stopped, and proper information got out there (like don't make your own hand sanitizer and hope that's enough to keep you safe, because it's not) then calm and rational mentalities would prevail. [/QUOTE]
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