News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on The Coronavirus Is Here Forever. Parent comment

Re:The Coronavirus Is Here Forever by h3cate on Monday August 23, 2021 @04:16PM (#28281346)
If you are a healthy person then you are low risk. If you are unhealthy (smoke, overweight, health condition) then you are at risk. I think a lot of people demanding the mandating of vaccines and mask wearing are in the smokers / overweight category and yet those people are never told to become healthy in themselves. People with health conditions have thought about illnesses long before covid. Thoughts?
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:The Coronavirus Is Here Forever by t-writescode on Monday August 23, 2021 @04:45PM (#28281688)
I think a look at Texas shows the real danger of Covid. Near 0% ER (edit: availability).

If you’re in a car accident, you may not get the life saving attention you need, because so many someones refused to vaccinate.

That’s the cascading effects we need to deal with, here.

I’m not worried about getting covid, myself. I wasn’t too worried before I was vaccinated and I’m not worried at all, now.

I’m terrified of needing normal, emergency medical care, or so-called elective surgeries (which is almost all surgeries, even the vital ones), and being unable to get it because thousands of beds are filled with people on respirators.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:The Coronavirus Is Here Forever by dcolkitt on Monday August 23, 2021 @11:21PM (#28284756)
The RAND healthcare study showed that drastic drops in medical expenditures had virtually no impact on mortality. Potentially even negative impact.[1]

The reality is if you're a health adult, an overburdened ER or OR poses a very small risk. Probably much less than what could be made up by eating one extra daily serving of vegetables.[2] You have far more to fear from lockdown induced supply chain disruptions that cause fresh produce shortages at the local grocer.

[1]https://www.cato-unbound.org/2007/09/10/robin-hanson/cut-med... [2]https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4727264/

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:The Coronavirus Is Here Forever by t-writescode on Tuesday August 24, 2021 @02:00AM (#28285568)
Statistics don't matter here.

A person getting in a car accident is relatively low chances; but when there's a car accident, I want there to be supply for every single person that was in that car accident and not already dead to have a hospital bed.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:The Coronavirus Is Here Forever by sk2020 on Monday August 23, 2021 @07:14PM (#28283265)
Smokers are at lower risk of COVID 19 death.

Also, why not make being a healthy weight mandatory? I mean, other than it isn’t a patented pharmaceutical product to be sold? We already have determined that indefinite, population-wide house arrest is OK.

My thoughts are that if you’re afraid of SARS and have confidence in Pfizer and friends, then purchase their products. They’re 99% effective, right?

[ Parent | on HN ]