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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]All right, advocates for immediate wide closures, tell me this. How do you expect to replace all the healthcare workers who will have to stop work if their kids can't go to school? Do you have any idea what percentage of nurses are women with kids at home? Do you know how many of them could suddenly find immediate and affordable replacement childcare?

Do you really want to reduce the availability of healthcare providers now? Really??[/quote]

Few nurses will work if they do not have enough PPE.

Did you see this in Seattle?

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/seattle-health-care-providers-scramble-to-ration-medical-supplies-as-coronavirus-cases-climb/

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Seattle health care providers scramble to ration medical supplies as coronavirus cases climb[/b]

Now, as global supply chains have been disrupted and the number of cases climbs, health authorities are hunting for medical supplies and have [b]called on employees to ration[/b].

“Limit mask use to on the patient only,” read a Wednesday email from a Valley Medical Center (VMC) staffer to nurses, referring to surgical masks. [b]“Staff will no longer wear masks, unless providing a care procedure requiring removal of the patient’s mask.”[/b]

According to the email: “Masks are in critical supply” and that “due to disaster conditions VMC will be implementing [b]alternate standards of care to conserve masks for critical and surgical use[/b].”

About an hour after the message went out, staff objected and it was retracted, according to Liz Nolan, a VMC spokeswoman, and the hospital found other ways to conserve and nurses were allotted [b]one mask per shift[/b].[/quote]

We have about 1% of the masks needed for a pandemic.  Everyone will be facing this shortage shortly.  How long will our health care workers (and EMS and firefighters) be willing to work with no protective equipment?

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