Nershi wrote:Lanyard I like the idea of using our military resources to battle this. Do you think our government is avoiding that to protect the military from being infected creating a national security issue?
My relative is an officer in the military and on deployment in a domestic base. He said the base is completely shut down. No one allowed in or out. He says it feels like he is in prison. He is getting close to the end of his mission but has concerns his deployment will be extended to keep his troop in quarantine. Can’t bring in replacements because they may be infected.
The balance is to mitigate risk to total force strength:
- we've got a lot of troops deployed overseas
- Would need to activate regionally
- need to limit # of "qualified" health care workers
- need to stop thinking everyone in America needs an individualized care plan and start treating in bulk
- this is infirmary medicine. Get off the ICU high horse and death panels BS. Everyone wants a war on drugs, guns and liberals, but no one is saying War on Coronavirus.
- Start thinking back to how we managed this crap in 1918. It wasn't because everyone had a $50,000 respirator in their pocket
- Bulk treatment and half-ass palliative care doesn't require highly skilled medical professionals. You need people that; a) know how to clean shit; b) can generally function in a command/control environment; c) can get sh!t done. Sorry, but your standard hospital stops at a)
- Move critical cases to functional med facilities
- Commander in Chief needs to take the forced manufacturer action and apply it to every clinic with an MD and Nurse; Orthopedic, Dental, Psychology, Out patient, etc...... stop ALL elective surgery, i.e. hip replacement, and direct resources to Corona Virus.
This is Guns vs Butter economics. Time for us to invest in the Medical Guns and stop thinking "the system" isn't capable of handling this crap. The system has more capacity than we're measuring, it just doesn't want to change how it operates.