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Originally Posted by Keith P.
If there is any comfort to be taken in this, it is that Public Health almost always overstates the risk involved in these sorts of things, which is then amplified by the news media and sites like FB and Twitter to make it sound even worse. Not to say there is not risk here or that this is not serious, but if you think back to H1N1 they set up massive public immunization programs for citizens but in the end the result proved not much different than the regular seasonal flu. This does appear to be more easily transmitted than many flus and as of now there is not a useful vaccine, which makes this riskier for sure. But it won't be until it is all over that we will be able to assess whether the disruption of life and tanking the world economy was necessary. None of which makes any difference to those who were afflicted and those close to them of course.
But keep in mind that this is the same group of Public Health officials who waged a false war against vaping last fall, convinced the NS govt to pass ill-advised legislation, and got the Feds to run alarmist TV ads stating it is a huge problem and health risk for youth which is absurd. Meanwhile we are seeing virtually no messaging from them or our govt on weed or hard drug use by those same young people. Go figure.
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I hear you Keith but let me add some real information. My Brother is one of the ICU doctors that will be on the front line of this. He was a little shocked at the "over reaction" until he read about the Northern Italian experience.
An Italian athlete from the region returned from Wuhan not feeling well and visited the local hospital three times over a ten day period. He was told to go home all three times but Italians are a passionate touchy feely people. As such they greet each other very closely. He had ten days to interact in this retirement community. The town has among the largest proportion of elderly in Italy. When folks got sick there was no resources or people to take care of the complex variations of sickness that showed up.
My Brother is terrified that our system may be only able to do Combat Triage medicine. Anyone with co morbidity ( heart disease, diabetes, Asthma, Kidney disease) will be too complex a set of problems to use the limited resources available. Literally, you will be sent home to pray and hope. N.S. has a disproportionately large elderly cohort that are used to doing things their way. Maybe not this time. Stay the F$%^ home everyone.
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