Re:35% of excess deaths from pandemic not caused by Covid-19
by s1artibartfast on Friday July 10, 2020 @04:18PM
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Im not sure how europe handled the hospitals during the shutdown. In the US, they basically stopped serving the public aside from COVID-19. I know someone who was scheduled for major heart surgery, which has been postponed indefinitely. He could easily fall into the excess mortality category. Meanwhile, hospitals are furloughing employees due lack of patients everywhere besides the hotspots.
My specific gripe is not with the lockdowns themselves, but with how the hospitals have reacted by essentially abandoning anyone who suffers from other diseasese.
What about the 26 year old dancer that will never be able to perform at the same level that she did before getting infected unless we manage to find a new medical technique to remove her lung scars? Will she work at Macdonald's now? Europe is mostly out of lockdown right now and yes, lockdown caused deaths too. But look at the addict admission to the hospital in Strsabourg/Mulhouse/Colmar and those in Britanny during the lockdown. Not having a crisis and only a lockdown did kill people, but not nearly as much as havong a crisis. In colmar, they had to close 3/4 or their bed usually used for alcoholic coma and/or OD. Im pretty sure it wasn't the case in Britanny.
Maybe you're right about the lockdown in the US though. It might have flattened the curve enough in some state and might have been useless in others, but it is obviously not working as well as it did in europe.