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Spin Zone / I just got back from my doctor....
« on: April 23, 2020, 11:53:01 AM »
I’m having some cervical radiculopathy and called up my doctor’s office to see if they’d call me in a prednisone dose pack but they said they’d have to see me so, here’s the procedure:
1. Drive there and stay in your car
2. Call them on your phone and answer a bunch of questions about whether you have covid19 symptoms
3. Pay over the phone with a credit card
4. Wait for a nurse to call you back and ask questions about what you did come here for
5. If the nurse thinks you should come in, she says go to the back entrance
6. You go to the furtive entrance where a nurse in a mask and gloves takes your temperature
7. You are invited in and led to a room where eventually the doctor, also wearing a mask, comes in
That nurse and doctor were the only people I saw anywhere. No other cars, no other employees. I asked the doctor how he was doing with this shut down. He said they are doing 20% of normal business and he has kept all his employees on payroll whether they come in or not but he will run out of money the end of May, and if this shutdown lasts that long he will have to lay them off.
He has been reading the latest studies coming from epidemiologists that are now saying the covid19 might have been in the U.S. as long as a year and that they may find that up to 80% of people are infected. The true hospitalization rate is turning out to be 4%, not 20% as we were first told, and the true death rate .05%. He believes there will be widespread antibody testing and results made known in about 4 weeks.
He said the hospitals here and in the next county both emptied themselves expecting “a tsunami” of covid19 patients and have had virtually nothing, no tsunami. Just a couple of cases bad enough to require hospitalization. Next week they are going to reopen for elective surgeries.
He said we did the right thing to shut down because it was based on the data we had at that point in time. But now we are getting tons of data in that is showing this is not any worse than flu, but the data comes in in overwhelming amounts and takes time to process, so it will take a while to filter into public awareness. I said, what about people using the shutdown for political agenda? He said, “In all disasters the politicians do that, the Titanic is sinking and they are arguing over the arrangement of the deck furniture.”
In the car on the way home the news said now 1 out of 6 Americans are out of work.
1. Drive there and stay in your car
2. Call them on your phone and answer a bunch of questions about whether you have covid19 symptoms
3. Pay over the phone with a credit card
4. Wait for a nurse to call you back and ask questions about what you did come here for
5. If the nurse thinks you should come in, she says go to the back entrance
6. You go to the furtive entrance where a nurse in a mask and gloves takes your temperature
7. You are invited in and led to a room where eventually the doctor, also wearing a mask, comes in
That nurse and doctor were the only people I saw anywhere. No other cars, no other employees. I asked the doctor how he was doing with this shut down. He said they are doing 20% of normal business and he has kept all his employees on payroll whether they come in or not but he will run out of money the end of May, and if this shutdown lasts that long he will have to lay them off.
He has been reading the latest studies coming from epidemiologists that are now saying the covid19 might have been in the U.S. as long as a year and that they may find that up to 80% of people are infected. The true hospitalization rate is turning out to be 4%, not 20% as we were first told, and the true death rate .05%. He believes there will be widespread antibody testing and results made known in about 4 weeks.
He said the hospitals here and in the next county both emptied themselves expecting “a tsunami” of covid19 patients and have had virtually nothing, no tsunami. Just a couple of cases bad enough to require hospitalization. Next week they are going to reopen for elective surgeries.
He said we did the right thing to shut down because it was based on the data we had at that point in time. But now we are getting tons of data in that is showing this is not any worse than flu, but the data comes in in overwhelming amounts and takes time to process, so it will take a while to filter into public awareness. I said, what about people using the shutdown for political agenda? He said, “In all disasters the politicians do that, the Titanic is sinking and they are arguing over the arrangement of the deck furniture.”
In the car on the way home the news said now 1 out of 6 Americans are out of work.
