03-11-2020, 04:58 PM
quote:
Originally posted by TomK
Kirt,
"I’m all for social distancing...comes naturally to me, but might I be staving off the dreaded exposure to no end? "
The whole point of staving off the exposure is yes, you may ultimately become infected but we'll still have a feasible medical system where you can be treated. If people don't take precautions, then you overload the system because so many people have the virus at the same time and it's likely you won't get the best possible treatment.
PS. The link works even if you are not on twitter. It's a good graphical representation of what I wrote above.
Don’t do Twitter. Nevertheless I have conceded to the idea of flattening the curve...not arguing it at all.
There are those that think some sort of collapse might mean that waiting until the “end” might not mean the “best possible treatment”.
In any case, the idea that washing hands etc. is more of a psych out for control over an invisible badboy may never be considered. The lava went where it went. Too bad we didn’t have a way of flattening it out...
Just thinking outloud, but it may be something is somewhat amiss with the current paradigm. Or maybe not. I have no future knowledge.
Cheers,
Kirt