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The extraordinary severity of the 1918 pandemic remains unexplained.
Douchebags who insist THE SCIENCE will show us the way are ignorant of the fact that we still know very little with certainty.
Martens talks about copathologies rather than comorbidities, but the paper makes clear that pandemics are complicated events.
My own intuition is that we have a very bad health care system in this country, that treats symptoms rather than underlying conditions caused by lifestyle and habit. So many Americans are in such a poor state of health that any jolt to the system is too much to survive.
It is also likely that a lot of people died because of very bad, centrally-planned medical administration. In New York City, the medical profession had reached a high state of art in medical billing. Vast amounts of money could be spent on ineffective, or even nonexistent, care and medicine. Heroic measures were applied to bill extensive medical treatments for all the people who came into the hospital at the pandemic's outset. The sharpest minds were set to work to insure that the proper insurance codes were entered into the system allowing for the maximum expenditure per patient.
I can assure you that no human effort was too great to ensure that medical providers were able to fully monetize every patient.
My favourite
The extraordinary severity of the 1918 pandemic remains unexplained.
Douchebags who insist THE SCIENCE will show us the way are ignorant of the fact that we still know very little with certainty.
Martens talks about copathologies rather than comorbidities, but the paper makes clear that pandemics are complicated events.
My own intuition is that we have a very bad health care system in this country, that treats symptoms rather than underlying conditions caused by lifestyle and habit. So many Americans are in such a poor state of health that any jolt to the system is too much to survive.
It is also likely that a lot of people died because of very bad, centrally-planned medical administration. In New York City, the medical profession had reached a high state of art in medical billing. Vast amounts of money could be spent on ineffective, or even nonexistent, care and medicine. Heroic meadures were applied to bill extensive medical treatments for all the people who came into the hospital at the pandemic's outset. The sharpest minds were set to work to insure that the proper insurance codes were entered into the system allowing for the maximum expenditure per patient.
I can assure you that no human effort was too great to ensure that medical providers were able to fully monetize every patient.