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Old Mar 18, 2020, 6:04 am
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largeeyes
 
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Originally Posted by Kevin AA
What is "total collapse" of health care? Everyone walks off the job? Get real, worst case scenario is hospitals fill up and only emergency patients are admitted. The vast majority of the population is not going to be waiting in line outside the hospital.

But if we continue down this path of economic suicide, the vast majority of the population will be broke. The ripple effect of no employment for people who work for airlines, hotels, casinos, bars and restaurants is massive. No one will be spared.

Do you want to see a hospital turn away patients who want gastric bypass surgery or breast implants etc., or do you want to see a nation in which the only people who have any money are the rich? Talk about income inequality.... when the only people with money are people who already had lots of money (and lose a few million in investments, big deal, they'll live)... absolutely horrific.
It means that, like in Italy, you end up choosing who lives and who dies. [Unduly personalized text edited by Moderator.]

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