Efforts to 'flatten the curve' are destroying health care capacity...
[thefederalist.com]
Health care institutions are furloughing employees across the country as extreme social distancing measures meant to “flatten the curve” are economically destroying the nation’s health care capacity.
Hospitals forced to forgo elective surgeries in preparation for a surge in patients struck by the Wuhan coronavirus have suffered lost revenues needed to keep operations afloat. As a result, many have announced cuts in critical personnel in recent days as dried up revenue streams begin to take their toll faster than the virus.
this whole thing doesn’t make sense. If young people are doing so well with it, why didn’t we just ask older ones 65 and over to stay at home? All the young people get it and can no longer be infected or infectious. Everyone still works, economy grows, after a few months there’s very little of the virus left for when old people come back out and we know better how to treat the virus and have all the equipment we need.