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And so many elective surgeries are out-patient meaning there was no reason to pre-emptively suspend. If the capacity overwhelm that never happened had actually

And so many elective surgeries are out-patient meaning there was no reason to pre-emptively suspend. If the capacity overwhelm that never happened had actually happened, we could have suspend surgeries then. And frankly it should be on a case-by-case basis. Some surgeries are more important than an extra hospital bed-day. I have a large labral tear in my shoulder, an impaction fracture on my humerus, there’s a bone bruise with bone marrow leaking out, my glenohumeral ligament is stripped from the glenoid rim, I have a new area of full-thickness articular cartilage loss... ...And because CA suspended ALL elective surgeries statewide for a month, my surgeon has a month backlog before he can get to me. Until then I cannot perform any of the activities that keep me healthy and sane. Also my arm is at risk of dislocating in my sleep until I get surgery Suspending elective surgeries was the dumbest possible decision we could have made yet our leaders won’t ever admit that they fucked up and completely botched their covid response.

CamperBob2 6y ago
I hear what you're saying, but my understanding is that PPE shortages were behind the decision to suspend other medical activities. Failure to maintain an adequate stockpile of PPE is probably what made the lockdowns necessary, more than anything else. If everyone in the US could have been given masks and instructed to keep their distance from other people, that would probably have been enough to allow us to lock down only the most vulnerable. At least we could have begun with that approach, and moved on to heavier measures only if/when they proved necessary.
- syshum 6y ago
  Some of that was/is pure speculation, they had data to say X number of people would need to be hospitalized, so they need Y number of PPE Y was more than they had to they panicked When X was found to be a massive over estimation they still doubled down and said "well in 2 week we will be over run" 2 weeks came, and it was "well in 2 weeks we will be over run" 2 weeks later and "well in 2 weeks...."

CamperBob2 6y ago

I hear what you're saying, but my understanding is that PPE shortages were behind the decision to suspend other medical activities. Failure to maintain an adequate stockpile of PPE is probably what made the lockdowns necessary, more than anything else. If everyone in the US could have been given masks and instructed to keep their distance from other people, that would probably have been enough to allow us to lock down only the most vulnerable. At least we could have begun with that approach, and moved on to heavier measures only if/when they proved necessary.

syshum 6y ago
Some of that was/is pure speculation, they had data to say X number of people would need to be hospitalized, so they need Y number of PPE Y was more than they had to they panicked When X was found to be a massive over estimation they still doubled down and said "well in 2 week we will be over run" 2 weeks came, and it was "well in 2 weeks we will be over run" 2 weeks later and "well in 2 weeks...."