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As far as I can tell, most public health decisions made up until this summer have been about preventing collapse of hospital systems. Individual health is of se
by zrail 5y ago
As far as I can tell, most public health decisions made up until this summer have been about preventing collapse of hospital systems. Individual health is of secondary importance to the system being able to handle ordinary levels of non-covid events.
Something changed a few months ago and now some states in the US are making decisions seemingly designed to collapse their health systems. It's tragically short sighted.
- Izkata 5y ago> As far as I can tell, most public health decisions made up until this summer have been about preventing collapse of hospital systems. If that were true, they wouldn't have gotten rid of the pop-up hospitals over a year ago.
- majormajor 5y agoThey weren't needed at the time, though. Why maintain them popped up in any one location when the biggest spikes have been moving around?