Adviceprn

COVID-19
One of the terms I have begun to hate the most...
I have found it interesting that as the numbers go down and the governments start to discuss opening things up that you have this one doctor from Toronto comes on and says it's WAY too early and blah, blah, blah... also talks of increasing testing.
The challenges are many with that. It is always interesting listening to someone who has been pushing paper for so long that he forgets reality! The bureaucrats in medicine who haven't set foot into reality for probably many years always just spew suggestions such as these but they forget that out on the front lines it's not that SIMPLE! It takes time, staff, supplies which all require money and everything in health care is limited by the almighty $
But there is also still a lack of understanding that to swab me today and it's negative doesn't mean that in 48 hours I won't test positive! A swab is a snapshot of that moment in time... period... it's not the end of the road for that person.
Antibody testing would tell a better story of how many people have had the virus by showing them to have antibodies and that's what we need now.
But these guys also don't realize that without lighting a fire under the economy again is important to get the $$ circulating. Yes there has to be restrictions, yes there has to be distancing still but like the doctors that I have talked to... the new normal will be a world WITH the virus in it just like the common cold or influenza is each year until a vaccine is produced and widely administered.