What will a post covid-19 world look like?

bojangle

bojangle

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Snaggy said:
I think payers want it to bring the price down. It decreases the costs for the physician that’s providing the service and it dismantles the integrated healthcare systems that have stood up to payers on reimbursements. Both are opportunities to drive down the cost of a visit.

Patients will love it. A huge number of office visits are driven by a desire for antibiotics. They will be much easier to get from an online doc, and without a long wait in the doctors office.

TBH, doctors haven’t provided the level of service and value that patients want anyway, not in their eyes. Not that many will be sorry to see the office visit become the exception.
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Uhhh! Exactly what we don't need!

ontherearwheel said:
The precedent of the government defining what is and is not essential to a person and businesses without being question has been set.

400 hp explorer st can be deemed non essential....but it’s lots of fun......

The list just goes on.

Will shutdowns happen during the next flu season?

If the citizens continue to remain silent.....the government can get away with anything. It already has happened and continues to this day........you are in lockdown right........

How do you think the Nazi party got into power?

History does repeat itself......

Know what’s funny........and sad........the 6 ft rule.........which is suggested also for the flu........was never in the forefront as now during the flu season. .....but makes great fear mongering.
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Godwin for the win! :laughing
 
Killroy1999

Killroy1999

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If the future, the US will look to China for more appropriate responses to health risks like this. The US CDC will probably not be so gutted and difunctional.

There will be interesting studies to the benefits of the lack of air pollution from the lack of activity.

Perhaps we will buy one less bomb and more PPE supplies for hospitals.

While morbid, there will be many old folks with previous medical conditions (many preventable by a healthy life style) dying early. We know that healthcare costs are loaded at the end of life for unhealthy people, so an interesting result is that we may see healthcare costs step down. Just a theory.
 
budman

budman

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:laughing @ Mel.

Looking on the bright side .....it will look like this. :ride
 

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TylerW

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Beanzy said:
I think life will return to what we are used to.
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I hope not.

We've all heard the statistic that about half the people in this country are within a paycheck or two of being homeless, and all it takes is a minor emergency or disaster to expose that vulnerability. This is a disaster that happened to everyone on the planet all at once, and now it's revealing how little of a safety net so many people have. Meanwhile everyone else seems to think that it's just fine as long as it doesn't happen to them.

This shouldn't happen in one of the richest countries in the world, but here we are. I don't have high hopes that it will change, but it should.
 
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Abacinator

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Hopefully motherfuckers will stop buying all the fucking paper products. Jesus christ, how much do you people shit?!
 
budman

budman

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Staff member
Assuming this year you will miss me because .....I will be in Virginia City. :teeth
 
m0t0_ryder

m0t0_ryder

RYD!
Snaggy said:
By the time the vaccine rolls out,
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We all hope for a vaccine.
Quicker the better. Right?

The virologist (in the below video) says that a vaccine for SARS 1 was never developed. There is nothing to "build on" to battle SAR-coV2 virus.
Watch the video.

At 5:50 he begins talking about why vaccines won't help our current situation and the SARS 1 link.


youtu.be/LVBc7-Te_yA

As for my thoughts on Post COVID-19...

- with time most will get back to near the (previous) usual normal.
- Some will have lost jobs that disappeared due to the country shutdown.
- for a (relatively) short duration we will see the build up of our medical infrastructure (but that will get bogged down in politics)
- the financial sector will take a little longer to recover. But it will.
- the graduating classes of 2020 will have had a weird ending to their level of schooling (or an extended ending)
- I will be out riding somewhere.
 
Holeshot

Holeshot

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bojangle said:
I think all these measures, including restrictive freedom measures, are all temporary and nothing to worry about. They will go away when covid-19 is no longer a pandemic. The economy will suck and continue to suck when the pandemic is over, but it will bounce back. People have a fairly short term memory. We are inclined to go back to all our old ways. This will probably last long enough to make meaningful changes to healthcare and future pandemic preparedness. But any preparedness efforts will only last until the next generation who didn't live through this is in charge.
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This. Totally this. It's not like we did anything different after H1N1...and by the same time period we're at now, over 1M were infected with H1N1. The best thing we have to compare to in this country is H1N1.

8. Globally, an estimated 151,700 to 575,400 people died from swine flu in the first year of the pandemic.

For reference, the COVID-19 pandemic has sickened 1,323 Americans and killed 38, as of March 12. More than 127,00 cases and 4,700 deaths have been reported globally.
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Everyone seems to forget that part...but like Dave said, people prefer to go back to what things were before. If they come up with an effective treatment for C-19, people will go back to socially mingling, although they may wash their hands more.
 
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NoTraffic

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No one's mentioned this yet but I wouldn't be surprised if there are further screening at international airports when a major pandemic like this springs about. The root distribution for viral infections is human travel and exposure.
 
SVJ

SVJ

That Looks About Right
Hopefully we will emerge with a renewed passion for roadracing and find a cure for what was once AMA.

And a new love for wheelies. And burnouts. Hopefully without flatbills... but whatever.
 
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