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/
Re:The Coronavirus Is Here Forever
by t-writescode on Tuesday August 24, 2021 @02:00AM
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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.
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.