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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The numbers small. Who cares [/quote]

You really can't figure out who cares?[/quote]

I know too many people care but are missing the point that the number is dramatically lower than what would be sufficient to overwhelm the health care system which was the entire goal of this pause [/quote]

Our health care system IS overwhelmed.  I have a friend who is an ICU nurse.  If she is working with non-COVID patients, she gets one mask a week.  Normally she would be changing her masks every patient, or every shift depending what she is doing.

ICU doctors are using less than ideal medications to paralyze and sedate patients for intubation, because of shortages of critical meds like IV fentanyl.

Doctors around the country are cancelling procedures like biopsies, and orthopedic surgery, because they can't get the PPE to do them safely.

People in nursing homes are dying when staff catch COVID and spread it from patient to patient because of lack of PPE.

Patients who need medical equipment at home are being asked to wash and reuse things like ventilator circuits that are supposed to be disposable.

How is this not an overwhelmed medical system?

Yes, we brought the numbers down, that's great, but unless we're careful about how we open up, they'll just spike again, and given that the system is already overwhelmed, we clearly can't handle that.  So, we need to move cautiously while continuing to solve the issues that are currently overwhelming our health care system.  [/quote]

A whole bunch of malarkey here [/quote]

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