While in agreement with your general point, I think it's worth noting that (in the UK at least) the current official advice for people in extremely vulnerable groups (including the immunosuppressed and people with severe respiratory conditions like cystic fibrosis) is DO NOT GO OUTSIDE AT ALL.
Hermetic bubble is the best chance of survival for those people.
Obviously people in that group are likely to know it already, but I think it's worth acknowledging that not everyone can/should be trying to GO THE FUCK OUTSIDE right now.
Also, wheelchair users and amputees and Blind people and people with chronic illness are discriminated against when it comes to who gets a ventilator, so there are some groups of people who may not be at more risk from COVID-the-virus, but who are nonetheless more at risk of dying from COVID due to hospital discrimination.
So, Disabled/chronically ill people should stay inside as well, because there's well documented hospital discrimination against Disabled people re ventilator access [not related to survival chances, but related to perceived "quality of life"]. Basically if two 40 years olds with equal medical chance of survival are competing for access to a ventilator, its the non-wheelchair user/non-Blind person who will get ventilator access.
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Date: 2020-04-14 08:57 am (UTC)Hermetic bubble is the best chance of survival for those people.
Obviously people in that group are likely to know it already, but I think it's worth acknowledging that not everyone can/should be trying to GO THE FUCK OUTSIDE right now.
Also, wheelchair users and amputees and Blind people and people with chronic illness are discriminated against when it comes to who gets a ventilator, so there are some groups of people who may not be at more risk from COVID-the-virus, but who are nonetheless more at risk of dying from COVID due to hospital discrimination.
So, Disabled/chronically ill people should stay inside as well, because there's well documented hospital discrimination against Disabled people re ventilator access [not related to survival chances, but related to perceived "quality of life"]. Basically if two 40 years olds with equal medical chance of survival are competing for access to a ventilator, its the non-wheelchair user/non-Blind person who will get ventilator access.