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No, it doesn't matter when, a parent dying when a kid is 10 is no different than when the kid is 11. Let's not pretend people are avoiding covid for multiple y
by toolz 5y ago
No, it doesn't matter when, a parent dying when a kid is 10 is no different than when the kid is 11.
Let's not pretend people are avoiding covid for multiple years here, because statistically they aren't.
- hhmc 5y agoIt does matter when. Outcomes are dramatically better if your local healthcare system isn't overloaded.
- jayd16 5y agoMortality rates are creeping down and new therapeutics are coming in, though.
- toolz 5y agoMortality rates are going down because of the vaccine and natural immunity. I wouldn't hold my breath on any ground breaking therapeutics, we have plenty as it stands today.
- kadoban 5y agoA parent catching covid after they are vaccinated and/or after there are better treatments is a parent far less likely to die. A parent catching covid with and without the hospitals currently being overrun is also a huge difference.
- toolz 5y agoIt'll be years before anything truly game changing hits the market. As for hospital capacity, we're down 7% from last year, there's no reason to believe we haven't screwed our economy/healthcare to the point it won't just get worse.
- kadoban 5y agoThere's already far better treatments now than existed at the start. Look for all the small things that add up, not one silver bullet. Then there's vaccines which _are_ game changing. There's also new drug(s) coming in already, Pfizer's pill for instance.
- toolz 5y agoyeah we've heard miracle therapeutics for a year now, look at remdesivir, made more headlines than anything else and ended up doing nothing. Sacrificing months of life for the unlikely possibility of a therapeutic from a disease that's unlikely to do lasting harm isn't something I would do and I certainly would never sacrifice anyone else's months of life or demand that they do in order to give me that "off-chance". We have vaccines, that's what we planned on having, they are here now. Time to stop pretending we've not spent the past year and change screwing over poor people and move on with life. oh yeah, not to mention monoclonal antibodies are being denied by the federal government now, looks like even therapeutics might be dwindling in numbers. sounds crazy right? Yeah, yeah it does.