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Originally Posted by ronricks
Well I am 40 and in good shape with no existing medical conditions so if it was just like a cold or even the flu no I wouldn’t go to a hospital and take up space I would just self quarantine like many others are doing. A bad cold doesn’t warrant a trip to the hospital for an able bodied person. If I were elderly or in bad physical shape with other existing conditions sure I would go to the hospital. This is part of the scare tactics and hysteria I am talking about.
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This exactly. This is serious stuff if you are elderly, but I am 29 and in decent shape, so I would not take up hospital resources, I would treat this like the flu, stay home until better, and then go on about life.
The biggest problem with this whole thing is that the media has everyone literally thinking the world is ending tomorrow. I
That being said, it's unfortunate how many public events are being cancelled, and I hope an attitude of isolation does not become a new norm in an already isolated and smart phone driven siociety.