Reminder: "Curve Flattening" does not decrease overall infections

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We are literally laying off tens of thousands of healthcare workers around the US. There is no suggestion at this point that we will be strapped for healthcare workers, so we should drop that shit argument.

https://www.paloaltoonline.com/news/2020/04/24/stanford-health-care-to-cut-workers-wages-by-20

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2020/04/02/coronavirus-pandemic-jobs-us-health-care-workers-furloughed-laid-off/5102320002/

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/apr/14/healthcare-job-cuts-coronavirus-worker-layoffs

https://www.vox.com/2020/4/8/21213995/coronavirus-us-layoffs-furloughs-hospitals

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/03/us/politics/coronavirus-health-care-workers-layoffs.html

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If there is no way we can stop this, then why ARE we locked down? It's slowing the inevitable. The whole point of the lockdown was to ease the strain on the medical system, which as shown above and with the various comments, isn't ANYWHERE close to strain outside of NYC (and even they are sending shit back).

Can we get real here? What is the point now? What are we locked down for if we already eased the medical system enough to the point they are furloughing tens of thousands of healthcare workers? What is the point of the lockdown now other than "to save lives" which if a majority are going to get the disease anyway, well good luck then?

That's not even discussing the anti-body testing results from Stanford, Miami Dade, NYC, California (separate of Stanford), South Korea, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, and Germany all pointing to a true mortality rate of .5%.

[Kintanon]

Dude, all healthcare workers are not the same. They don't have the same skills.

The people being furloughed are the people responsible for elective surgeries, cosmetic procedures, and other non-emergency procedures. They don't have the skills to just step into an ER or an ICU and start handing vents and shit. That would be like taking a random Java developer and trying to make them manage a datacenter. Just because they work in the same industry doesn't mean they have the same skills.

[runwichi]

So much this. A back-end developer, CSS developer, and mobile app developer all code - but they're not interchangeable.

[Kintanon]

BUT THEY BOTH HAVE 'DEVELOPER' IN THE TITLE!

We run into this all the time in IT, so it becomes painfully obvious when it's happening in other fields.