Monday, March 23, 2020

More horsemanure

U.S. axed CDC expert job in China months before coronavirus outbreak 
The American disease expert, a medical epidemiologist embedded in China’s disease control agency, left her post in July.
In comparison, Obamacare has been telling us to run off to crowded emergency rooms when we get sick.

This one expert would not have made a difference, the doctor on the spot, now dead, did the job faster and more widespread via the internet. Our fundamental flaw, we our destroying the household functions, in this case, home triage. Folks should have known it was time for Mom's recipe, hot chicken soup, go to bed and everyone stay away. We did not know Mom's recipe, we were told home triage was a racist thing.

This is all ex post, side effects which we could not predict ten years ago, except the medical staff should have known; but all they saw was a money stream.  (cross infections are a well know problem for hospitals).

So the charge about deliberately lying on the emergency room congestion problem results in an involuntary manslaughter charge, economists failing simple assumptions. But I can point to many of us who noticed the emergency room congestion problem from the start.

The better system requires households to have some high school education and read WebMD.  Require that and federal medical costs drop rather sharply. In my household that is my job, the three of us designated me as the interpreter of WebMD, but I can go a bit deeper. Then our trips to the emergency room are rare.

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