[teejers1]

Do you want your cancer operated on? Or your heart attack treated?

There is no functional economy or society without functioning hospitals, just not realisetic.

That's almost comically myopic. Don't you realize that the converse is equally true? That there are no functional hospitals without a functioning economy?

I wonder what definition of "functioning hospital" is.  I mean, aren't a ton of non-critical medical appointments/procedures - you know, the ones that keep hospitals afloat financially - being canceled now?  I'm not in medical profession and don't pretend to know anything.  But that's also why I am limited to layman terms/common sense, like linking "re-opening" to capacity to address those needing hospitalization for COVID virus.

And btw, tying these points together, it wouldn't shock me if hospitals put all COVID patients in some non-hospital site (though one fully equipped to handle treatment) so that hospitals can, in fact, go back to more regular operations.  [Maybe this is going on already, IDK].   This, of course, is also dependent on capacity (doctors and staff availability being the most important aspect of that, which will also be tied to how much of those resources need to be devoted to COVID patients).

[teejers1]

Do you want your cancer operated on? Or your heart attack treated?

There is no functional economy or society without functioning hospitals, just not realisetic.

That's almost comically myopic. Don't you realize that the converse is equally true? That there are no functional hospitals without a functioning economy?

I wonder what definition of "functioning hospital" is.  I mean, aren't a ton of non-critical medical appointments/procedures - you know, the ones that keep hospitals afloat financially - being canceled now?  I'm not in medical profession and don't pretend to know anything.  But that's also why I am limited to layman terms/common sense, like linking "re-opening" to capacity to address those needing hospitalization for COVID virus.

And btw, tying these points together, it wouldn't shock me if hospitals put all COVID patients in some non-hospital site (though one fully equipped to handle treatment) so that hospitals can, in fact, go back to more regular operations.  [Maybe this is going on already, IDK].   This, of course, is also dependent on capacity (doctors and staff availability being the most important aspect of that, which will also be tied to how much of those resources need to be devoted to COVID patients).