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No man I just acknowledge a healthy middle-aged man had a near-to-zero-as-makes-no-difference chance at getting seriously ill, much less dying, from corona. And that therefore the surgeon who could have saved my dad's life should have not zoomed in from the couch.
And perhaps more to the point, it is not swift to deny dying people even oddball chances at survival when the official paths have been closed. For whatever reason.
I am the one advocating for more access to 'healthcare.' You are advocating for more compliance to the 'healthcare' system.
I’m sorry about what happened.
But denying someone an elective surgery because of some risk calculation to the patient wasn’t really the point I was talking about here.
I’m saying in an actual triage situation it makes sense to curtail elective surgeries, and also it makes sense for regular people to try and not overburden the system even more.
Whether or not COVID was an actual triage situation or a situation that was mistakenly considered as a triage scenario is beside the point.
I care about the medical “system” inasmuch as it prevents people from dying or having severe health complications, so back to the OPs point, I would totally modify my behavior a bit if my local medical system asked me to during a triage type event.
Covid is an example of how a publicly funded healthcare system cannot be trusted to tell you what counts as triage. They have no skin in the game, no incentive to make decisions that actually maximize health. If your father dies, they don't even get upset.
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