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Re:One-Third of U.S. Museums May Not Survive the Year, Surve... by matz1 on Thursday July 23, 2020 @06:19AM (#23925829)
Yes, all disease could have delayed death/long lasting permanent damage.

And in regard with hospital overwhelmed, its nothing new, this is from 2018, hospital have to setup triage tents:

https://time.com/5107984/hospitals-handling-burden-flu-patie...

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Re:One-Third of U.S. Museums May Not Survive the Year, Surve... by yesplorer on Thursday July 23, 2020 @06:34AM (#23925899)
Triage tents don't fall from the sky. They require extensive planning and logistics.

And sometimes you build them and they go unused as has been done during this very pandemic because luckily predictions were wrong.[0]

[0] https://www.militarytimes.com/news/coronavirus/2020/04/29/ma...

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Re:One-Third of U.S. Museums May Not Survive the Year, Surve... by matz1 on Thursday July 23, 2020 @06:50AM (#23925984)
Um yes, i didn't argue that it shows up magically.
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Re:One-Third of U.S. Museums May Not Survive the Year, Surve... by zaarn on Thursday July 23, 2020 @07:34AM (#23926212)
Triage tent != Triage.

A triage tent is used to sort patients between codes, ie emergencies and non-emergencies when space inside the hospital is unavailable.

Actual triage means when the hospital itself rejects patients because they do not have the resources to treat everyone anymore. From what it reads in the article, the hospitals weren't unable to treat patients on that level yet.

>Yes, all disease could have delayed death/long lasting permanent damage.

And we don't know what Covid-19 brings but that isn't even the point so I'm wondering why you brought it up anyway.

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Re:One-Third of U.S. Museums May Not Survive the Year, Surve... by matz1 on Thursday July 23, 2020 @08:43AM (#23926711)
I'm responding to the hospital being overwhelmed, not specifically about the tent.

My point is at the current situation the hospital is no more overwhelmed then what has happened in the past.

>And we don't know what Covid-19 brings

Yes but we can learn from previous similar virus in the past and decision to lockdown should not be taken lightly. Unless this virus has death rate of ebola then there should not be lockdown.

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Re:One-Third of U.S. Museums May Not Survive the Year, Surve... by zaarn on Thursday July 23, 2020 @08:55AM (#23926816)
Well, the standard influence virus that causes the flu isn't that similar, it's from a different family of viruses. The only similar virus that has some medical history is SARS.
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