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JAS's avatar

Off topic: This is EXACTLY why we need a higher grade of up-to-date health/medical sciences & research taught at the high school level & I'm not talking about AP classes... I mean ALL students with the basics of microbiology, virology, hematology, etc. The younger generations need to learn the what Mother Nature was trying to teach all of us with plagues/pandemics: "What Happens to One of Us on One Side of the World, Happens to All of Us in the World... If one of us is not safe, then none of us are safe." Ignorance breeds & transmits diseases & plagues... not just the viruses...

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George D. Bussey, MD, JD, MHA's avatar

Thanks for that review - I've often wondered how much of an overshoot some areas did and how much of an undershoot others did. For example, I live in Hawaii, where we went into a significant shutdown ("lockdown" is such a loaded word - people were NEVER "locked" out of anything). We suffered a severe economic impact from the loss of tourism, but our local ecology flourished. And when we did relax our restrictions, our hospitals came very close to being totally overwhelmed. I do think that those who aren't intimately involved involved with the healthcare system just don't understand how close we came to having a collapsed acute care system with horrible downstream impact on the treatment of a host of acute and chronic conditions.

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