Healthcare thread

[Schneed10]

This thread is kind of weird.

To say our healthcare is dependent upon the health of our weakest link can only apply - albeit in a very loose manner - in the case of a new communicable disease against which there is no built up herd immunity. It doesn't apply in any other way.

Coronavirus is definitely more dangerous than the flu. How do you measure danger? If you get it, what is the probability then that you will die? The chances of dying once you've caught Coronavirus are much higher than the chances of dying once you've caught Influenza. Coronavirus just isn't nearly as prevalent... yet. Chances are it will hit a wall like SARS did in the summer when it gets hot and humid, when viruses generally don't hold up. Notice there are no outbreaks in the southern hemisphere, where it's currently summer?

By then hopefully we'll get a vaccine in place to stop it when it pops up again in 2021.

Healthcare is about everything from managing chronic genetic conditions to recovering from catastrophic traumatic injury to managing your blood pressure and cholesterol to getting enough exercise to maintaining your blood sugar for diabetic patients... and on and on. To boil it down to a discussion specific to a brand new communicable disease is kind of asinine.