rainerann
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This video was very interesting. I think the one doctor makes a point about this potentially not being a new thing, there is just a new test for this thing. There is some potential for this to be true from my own experience working in the hospital.
Although, the empty coronavirus hospital doesn't surprise me too much. For some reason, the census has gone way down since this thing started and almost half the hospital is coming in with flu like symptoms now.
We have been consistently full for years now. Now, we could basically close down another floor if we needed to and reserve those rooms for COVID patients exclusively.
I want to say this is because people don't want to be exposed, so people are just coming in real emergencies, but I don't really know why it changed.
But, the part about having a new test for something that was already there made a lot of sense. So we could all be blowing this out of proportion in the end, the media and the antimedia, and this thing could end up being similar to when AIDS came out. There was a lot of media attention and now it is just another diagnosis in some respects.
I know people are saying that this is all about control, but in some ways, I don't think it is any different than many other conditions in healthcare, which brings me to my main complaint about healthcare. No one really gets well.
The system creates a sort of dependency. Whether this situation creates more dependency on a system that doesn't really have a cure for a lot of diseases already, is what I am most worried about at the moment.