Re:'Finally, a virus got me’: Scientist who fought Ebola and...
by IAmEveryone on Saturday May 09, 2020 @07:24PM
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If you have a heart attack you call 911. There hasn’t been much messaging about that because, frankly, it’s assumed to be obvious.
Re:'Finally, a virus got me’: Scientist who fought Ebola and...
by derefr on Saturday May 09, 2020 @07:34PM
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People tend to call 911 while they're having a heart attack; but a first heart attack doesn't tend to kill people, so if they live through it, they tend to think it isn't an urgent problem in need of calling 911, and instead just go to the hospital at their earliest convenience. The problem here guilt/shame delaying "earliest convenience."
I imagine being in those shoes feels a lot like it would have to need surgery when you're HIV positive, back when HIV was an eventual death sentence: you'd feel guilt/shame for exposing your doctors to this coincidental problem you have, that might get them sick.
And so these people don't go, and end up dying of these other problems, likely at a much higher level than the people who are just staying indoors out of paranoia.