Topic: Doctors fear health care collapse amid omicron surge (Read 356 times)

although this time omricon has a faster spread, the effect is lighter than covid so I think that with the discovery of the omricon case it will not be as severe as the previous covid case. On the other hand, many of you already understand about this virus, so it doesn't cause panic that can attack the body's immune system, and finally, even though many are affected, it will not result in a very serious incident like last year's covid.

If I'm correct I guess you're talking about the U.S. government, the thing is, I do not think this current situation is peculiar to just the United States of America, I believe every country is as well facing one or two problems with their healthcare system due to the rising cases of covid19 and the need to attend to more people, I know the healthcare sector is one very important aspect of our society today, but we must understand that they can't function without funds, especially at this crucial time, I don't know how high it costs in the U.S. cause I don't live there, but where I'm from things have as well gone high, making it slightly difficult to afford, but I do not entirely put the blame on the government. The pandemic is something we all didn't plan for, and steps are still being taken to get things under control by governments that are at least honest with their people.

It did really put us into a situation where it is just like were are being tied up into our own necks on which we couldnt do something that we do usually do because of this pandemic situation plus having that kind of hardship in terms of finances then we cant really able to avoid on not to think about those things.About health care collapse then i dont really believe that much and on this situation
they do really need to prove out on whats their truly benefit or function yet we know that we've been paying it up in the first place which it is just right that we do able to benefit out.
Hopefully we would really be going back into our normal lives again.

I know this covid seriously destroyed many dreams and turned much happiness into sadness. I heard many people start their organizing in march 2020 and end up like they never occur. I know how people lock themself in their houses and cry for food, and now we're going to face all this Crysis again due to the omicron virus which recently came into among us. Talk about cryptocurrencies; no, I don't think these cryptocurrencies can do anything to cure the covid crisis. It's all up to us how we manage and save ourselves from this disease

We had a long period of lockdowns in my nation, my wife couldn't celebrate her birthday for 2 years in a row now, we were all in our homes and couldn't even get a cake for her, got some store cakes to be fair but not the usual birth day cake. So all in all I know what you are going through, I have seen it with my own eyes.

At the end of the day, pandemic hit us all hard. Not only we had people who died, but we also had economical problems at the same time. I would understand if we could have done just one or the other but we had it both.

Like just take the USA for example, they had 7%+ inflation, which I believe is a lot higher, and they also had hundreds of thousands of people died as well, if they had no economical problem but dead people that would be sad but you would say they let things be, if there were very little amount of dead people but no economical problems you would say they saved people, but with both a lot of dead AND economical problems, we are talking about a failure there.

If they didn't see healthcare as a means to make huge profit then we wouldn't be seeing this kind of problem, they jacked up the prices of medicines to the point of collapse and they don't pay the staff enough because they want to maximize profits over the fact that they need more people to work on those hospitals so here's the result.

The problem is not with the healthcare system it’s with the peeps who is not agreeing to COVID restrictions that they should be focusing on. Many of them are creating buzz about why they should wear the mask, why they should be injected with the vaccine etc.

The thing is that’s the only way to break the chain of pandemic otherwise it’s way easy for virus to spread and multiply.

Being biotech guy, I know one thing for sure; we are way way away from closing down the pandemic. As peeps are not listening to the preventions they will give the virus a chance to flourish in our bodies and it records the current state of genetic information and as it passes on infecting others it goes mutated. There comes the scope of another variant and it goes on.

I think everyone should be educated in this regards so that they would understand why it’s important to be protected rather than have the temporary freedom!

The faster it spread the faster it’s gonna mutate all the time. That’s what the function of survival is in the first place!

I hope that healthcare system will hold on for now the burden which it has got.

I think some "new normal" is coming, or it came already... and that "new normal" has very little with some normal things from my childhood, without TV's and computers, and many other things that are "so normal"! Sometimes I try to remember the times when we didn't have mobile phones, how everything worked back than?!

Healthcare collapsed a long time ago, at least in my country! It was bad before, now it's a disaster! Before the pandemic waiting for magnetic resonance imaging was around 7-8 months, now it's over a year... my country is in some transition before everything was free, now we have many private doctors and sometimes the only way to get yourself checked is going to them and paying! It's not a problem in paying, but they take a part of my paycheck every month for healthcare, but they don't provide it, in the end I still need to go private doctor and pay more!

What doesn't kill you will only stronger! I'm not immune to any virus but I have tried my best to stay out if any diseases and virus that may attacked my system, the way the government is tackling this virus is becoming a bone  that has hang on the neck and when use water to flush it down, it refuse to go down, thats exactly what is happening with this governments and the virus.
I just hope, one very day, our children will once go back how they live there normally without been cage and instructed on how to interact and move with social life.

Definitely yes, that's why governments are implementing border cut down, lockdown and restrictions, booster vaccines,etc because there is not enough doctor to diagnose and treat patients if the spreading speed persists same as of now in the next few weeks. Well surprisingly omicron surge really affected the psychology of people because I am having flue, headache and slight pain in the throat for the past three days and when I look into the Google all the symptoms matches with Omicron.

The same thing here in my place. A lot of people has been rushed to the hospital because of Omicron cases, but yeah they're milder than the original Covid. If you have breath or lung related case when you come to the hospital, you'll probably end up to the long queue of the same cases before you can secure a room plus the protocols will even make you stay outside longer for more than 36hrs.

I don't know but I guess we're also in the state of seasonal flu. A lot of people also got sick with high fever, colds, and cough. Even me I just recovered after a week of suffering from a Covid like flu symptoms.

Despite the sacrifices of those scientist who were researching for vaccines, the discipline in our country is getting worst. Covid cases surges more that we imagine just because the hard headed people violates the protocols of our local authorities. They party whenever they want and go mingling, socializing and now it the active cases are somewhat unexplainable.

For me, the emergency of this new variant called Omicron should not lead us to panic or into thinking that the health care system is going to break down. It should be a clarion call for each and every one to play his part in making sure that the rate at which it moves from one person to another is controlled to the barest form.

And we can do this by simple obeying our doctors by getting vaccinated, receiving our booster jab, putting on mask in large gatherings and eating health to keep our immune system strong to be able to attack even if we get infected.

And with this hospitals will not fall into crisis and their will be no need to have low staffing.

The healthcare system could make use of the blockchain technology to improve their services and become more efficient, but I cannot understand why a cryptocurrency has to be made. How would the healthcare services improve with a token? There have been health and healthcare related crypto projects in the past. I guess almost all of them have already been abandoned.

Anyway, on the individual level what a person should care about is his/her health not healthcare. Healthcare could either be provided by the government or by private healthcare facilities, but governments should always make sure that healthcare services are available and accessible, affordable, and effective.

I'm not sure cryptocurrencies can provide any help to this situation, however the blockchain technology surely has functional and practical usage within the medical supply chain. Unfortunately politicians in the USA care more about appeasing lobbyists (who have the financing to fund their opponents instead) rather than looking out for the best interests of the majority of people. Until lobbying is banned (along with stock market insider trading by the very same politicians) then it will be almost impossible to fight back against the established order of billionaires consolidating money into fewer hands. You have a rather sick society when a handful of people earn more in a few days of January than the rest of the country will for the whole year combined. Politicians work on relatively short timescales, however these fixes need to stay in place for long term to work.

In my above post, it probably sounds like I'm minimizing experiences like yours, but that wasn't my intent.  Still, I think the fear is overblown and the media won't let up. 

I have to wonder how many people are visiting emergency rooms because they think they have COVID and are frightened unreasonably that they might die from it, i.e., they don't belong in any of the high-risk categories.  From everything I've read the omicron strain (not sure why they're called "variants" now, but it could be my ignorance) is more transmissible but far less lethal than the other ones.

I'd also add that I think people are being fed the wrong statistics with regard to COVID, and that's purposely being done to crank up the fear factor--and remember, I'm not a conspiracy theorist!  All I hear about is positivity rates and transmissibility, when the only statistic that should matter is death rate.  No matter how hard we try, people are going to get sick.  The government's policies should be aimed solely at reducing mortality, and even then I think society is sacrificing a lot of freedom in the name of safety and security.  That's bad.

The health care system isn't going to collapse.  There may be some strain on its resources, but again....that's what we were being told in 2020.

Met with one of my clients today (who just happened to mention bitcoin , asking me if I thought it was a good investment etc ) who works for a hospital and said omicron has been an absolute disaster for them. She said she had one person who’s been sitting in the ER for over 36 hours right now just trying to get in to be seen and a proper room. She said she and other medical professionals at the hospital have been completely overwhelmed. Just thought I’d share some insight in to what we are seeing here in Chicago.

I call BS on this one, and I don't care how many scientists/doctors from Harvard are interviewed.  And not for nothing, but I knew a Harvard medical school grad who turned into a disgraced neurosurgeon and "doctor feelgood" who all the opiate addicts would flock to with cash in hand to get their Percocets--which is to say that I don't trust arguments from credentials per se.

But the reason I see this bit of news as crap is because we've heard this story before--right at the beginning of the pandemic, in fact.  Remember all those stories of how the US couldn't get enough ventilators to keep up with demand and that coroner's offices couldn't keep up with the number of corpses because of COVID (I think that was in NYC)?  Well, those stories got the fear response they were out for and then quietly disappeared once the real situation turned out not to be nearly as bad as all the talking heads were saying.

You want to get back to normal?  Take some personal responsibility and just go back to normal and stop living in fear and government mandates.  They don't know anything about what's going on anyway, so why let them tell you what the facts are or what you should be doing with your life?  Unless you're 75 or older or have serious comorbidity, your chances of dying from COVID are slim to none.  And if you fit into any of those categories, then keep yourself safe but let the rest of us be free.

I'm not an anti-vaxxer or conspiracy theorist and don't mean to come off that way.  I'm curious about your statement.  If those aren't vaccines, what do you think they are? 

I hope so that it would happen by the end of this year since covid-19 is causing a lot of trouble to the whole world.
But what if you are wrong about the prediction then I guess we're all fucked up, right?
And also, I don't know if the health care workers would just take advantage of this pandemic if the media keep reporting the covid-19 cases almost everyday. If the prediction of the other is true like there's another variant of virus again, then I don't this year will be enough just like what they have predicted.