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Now I wouldn't be too confident in these statistics especially from countries like India, the simply reason being that many of the Covid deaths never appeared on the papers because many sick people never got to the hospital and simply were sick at home and then died. Given the overcrowding of their health care system I am highly suspicious that those "at home" deaths ever got reported and most likely they "flew" under the radar.cmb said:Then there was India that initially looked fine and everyone said how well they had done, then it surged and folks said how badly they'd dealt with the second wave, now at 330/M deaths, they're looking pretty good by comparison with USA and, say, UK at 2,100/M.
Well, has it ever really worked anywhere except for a few small countries with extremely good rates of GDP and healthy population?PeroK said:COVID is the last straw for my belief that universal healthcare, free at the point of use, is sustainable.
After Covid I decided to see a cardiologist and make some checkups, the state given one would be 6 months in waiting so I just went from my own pocket, not to mention the attitude you get while paying yourself is quite different.
All in all the best way to fight any virus and take load off from healthcare system is to not make bad life choices that eventually lead to conditions like obesity etc.
One of the unspoken yet major factors in Covid deaths is obesity and probably the reason US is in the lead of deaths. Others conditions also included.
Take no offence but given this is a science forums I think we should practice what we preach and stop the fear posting and just wait for reliable data to come out and then judge.
Also life is a probability , a virus that affects mostly vulnerable people I think the most logical approach is to isolate that group instead of everybody because someone has to go and work and pay for all the expenses we have not to mention we shouldn't write off our future because of a single event that will most likely go away.
We have nothing to fear , but fear itself , once said one man...
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