Posts by restlesssurfer97

brightpilot6 said:I’ve experienced this kind of runaround at least three times before—though honestly, I might have lost count—and one of those instances ended with them practically trying to dissect my father right there on the table just to figure out what was wrong with him. Even as a complete layman, the lack of logic was glaringly obvious; nobody could offer a single coherent explanation for why they were rushing such a drastic move. If I hadn't been able to get someone important on the phone to intervene, that would have been the reality. We eventually spent four hours just waiting to head home without any surgery being performed, simply because a specialist finally showed up and actually bothered to give him an honest examination.

We managed to get through it unscathed, but I can only imagine how many people aren't so lucky.

Since then, I don't trust the "system" with even a fingernail.

brightpilot6, can you even imagine going through that exact same scenario during the height of COVID-19?

brightpilot6 said:So, are you suggesting that absolutely nothing should have been done simply because the system was already flawed?

Since when did you become so exclusive?

I personally think it’s more than obvious now that a nationwide lockdown wasn't actually necessary, if you just look at all the numbers.
For the people who are going to tell me it’s easy to be a general after the battle is over, that’s not really the point here; the point is the massive range of measures available, stretching from doing absolutely nothing to a total shutdown.

urbanhawk17 said:In this case, it’s not even about the system failing; it’s more about pure hysteria.

So, basically, six months ago they would have admitted her and done what needed to be done, but now she's being turned away specifically because of the COVID-19 hysteria.

They sent her to a COVID center—that used to be cardiology, but now it’s been turned into a COVID center, and the people who sent her there knew perfectly well there aren't any cardiologists working there anymore.

It honestly feels like people don't fully grasp how much this whole massive hysteria is making a broken healthcare system perform even worse than it already was.
I mean, let's be real, it wasn't exactly running like a well-oiled machine before all this started either.

Are we seriously doing this right now?

Matthew Young35 said:After reading through this, my takeaway is simple: the mother passed away because of sheer negligence and incompetence, not because of some mass hysteria.
Right from the start, you see that exchange: "Can I have a glass of water?" followed by "No, I'm from a different department."
How does that have anything to do with COVID-19 panic?
The constant runaround you get from staff in government institutions is more the rule than the exception.
This isn't about the virus; this could have happened anytime—a year ago, two years ago, or five years ago.

Even a ninety-year-old grandpa would have passed away, whether it was with COVID-19 or without it.🤷

So, here's a little gift for you, just one more quote:

Perhaps the best way to look at this is through the statement made by Eduard Vrdoljak, the president of the American Cancer Society and head of the oncology department at the Mayo Clinic. A few weeks back, he expressed serious concern, noting that until recently, oncology in the area was seeing roughly 12 new patients a day, but since the COVID-19 crisis kicked off, they've only been seeing two or three. Of course, we know the number of cancer patients didn't just magically drop; instead, they're being missed because the entire healthcare system—especially diagnostic radiology—basically ground to a halt. His warning that the pandemic will be followed by a "pandemic" of malignant diseases, and that the resulting death toll from delayed diagnoses could easily match or even exceed the lives saved from COVID-19, is enough to make your blood run cold.

brightpilot6 said:Is the suspension and poor enforcement of all other health-related content (aside from COVID-19) actually an official anti-COVID policy?

Or is it simply a byproduct of the sluggish rollout of general pandemic measures, combined with the insufficient capacity and quality of our healthcare system—shortcomings that manifest on a daily basis even during normal times?

And what is the purpose of those of you who aren't shortsighted and understand that this isn't some binary struggle between public health and the economy? What is the real fight here? And specifically, what should or shouldn't have been done during the beginning and middle of March?

Please be specific; anyone can post cryptic comments and dislikes until they're blue in the face.

No shit, Sherlock. Did you honestly think that slapping some COVID-19 restrictions on top of a broken system was going to make everything suddenly run like a dream, or were you actually expecting a mess to just get even messier?

So, what’s the actual point for those of you who aren't being shortsighted and can see that this isn't just some binary battle between public health and the economy? Because that’s such a surface-level way to look at it, right? Like, if you actually step back, what is the real fight here? And more importantly, looking back at everything that went down during the beginning and middle of March, what specifically should have been done—or, you know, shouldn't have happened—to handle this properly?

Look, let's be real here, anyone can sit around throwing out cryptic comments or spamming dislikes on basically anything they want, and honestly, it’s enough to drive you absolutely insane if you let it get to you.

I’ve been talking about this for over a month now, specifically regarding all those crucial measures that just got completely bypassed, and I’m not just making this up as I go or pulling ideas out of thin air, because I’m actually looking at what other countries did when they were successfully managing to shut down that first wave of COVID-19.

Instead of trying to follow their lead, we basically just looked at what happened in Italy—they let things spiral into total chaos and then spent all that time struggling to fix the exact same mess we're facing now.
We haven't even come close to focusing enough on prevention, we've just been obsessively concentrated on treating the disease once it already hits you.

Look, if you skip over several crucial preventive measures and just dive headfirst into a government shutdown that’s going to trigger a massive chain reaction of heavy consequences, then you haven't actually done the job right. It’s really that simple.

Either way, we were all doomed anyway.

1) We're all gonna kick the bucket eventually because of old age, regardless of COVID-19
2) The system is basically broken beyond repair already, so COVID-19 doesn't even matter

So, pick your favorite flavor of "we're doomed" and let me know which side you're on. 😍

MJ wasn't even a fan of him. Isaiah.

urbanhawk17 said:What about gravity?

I guess we're hitting rock bottom

The text is just a mess of quote paragraphs, so there’s really no point in trying to quote everything, but here’s at least a bit of what I found, which hits pretty close to home for those people who are losing sleep over everyone's lives right now:

In that light, it was honestly disgusting to read this statement from some expert who’s been all over the news lately—I can’t even recall her name at this exact moment—who, while commenting on the new measures, proudly claimed she’s just glad to live in a country where lives matter more than the economy. It’s like in her mind, "the economy" is nothing more than a new Mercedes-Benz for some local tycoon, rather than the actual lives and destinies of every single person mentioned above. What an incredibly narrow, one-dimensional, short-sighted, and frankly just plain wrong way to look at things. I guess that’s what you expect from a layman, especially since she isn't part of any actual professional field. When you actually shine a light on her moralizing claim, what she’s really saying is that she’s happy to live in a country where the lives of the people the media is obsessing over are prioritized over the lives of all the people nobody is asking about right now.

Maybe my comment ties into this? And if so, does it deserve some ROFLs? 🤔

Whatever, my comment deserves the ROFLs 🤣🤣

brightpilot6 said:I am, but my comment wasn't actually about the article itself; it was a response to your take on it (which, if you look at the title, makes the point pretty clear). If anything else seems fuzzy, I’m happy to clarify.

As for the idea that I was just mocking the piece, well... honestly, I don't even know if there's a lower bar to hit than that. 🙄

If you only understood what I meant by looking at the headline, then you didn't even bother reading the actual piece.
Just stop spinning your wheels.

wiredrider9 said:Where did he even say everything was moving toward a total lockdown without COVID? Did you even bother reading the text?

Oh, they obviously didn't read it, because this is just straight-up trolling and throwing shade, and honestly, ten years of fighting wars on Reddit forums really starts to show its toll on people 😂

If they had actually taken the time to read it, I guarantee they wouldn't be reacting with such a total lack of intellectual honesty.

Let's talk about playing the relativity card, because honestly, you can't just pull that move when we're talking about a common cold, you really can't 😂

When someone’s mother passes away because of all this COVID-19 hysteria, suddenly everyone’s acting like a total saint.
But the second you suggest that maybe people are overreacting to this virus, people jump down your throat like you don't care about protecting our seniors.

🙏🙏

wiredrider9 said:I'm gonna go clap from my balcony for our "noble heroes"—you know, the ones too busy filming TikTok dances to actually take care of their own families.

But seriously, the way this guy used his own tragic personal experience to surgically dissect every single aspect of this whole hysteria with such precision was incredible, it’s an excellent piece of writing, and I’d love to give it a like if I didn't know it was fueled by such heavy family tragedy.

Devastating letter: My mother passed away at the Mayo Clinic because of this COVID-19 hysteria

Here’s some high-quality reading for those short-sighted people who think this is just some grand debate about saving lives versus fixing the economy.

And honestly, there are way more tragedies like this happening, it's just really hard to get them out into the public eye. If everyone actually banded together and filed a massive lawsuit against the federal task force, that would be the only fair way to handle it.

Kaeš is honestly just counting down the seconds until this whole thing wraps up

Can I actually go back to the whole corona thing?

I think you might’ve accidentally slipped into sarcasm territory there, man. Like a total double fault.

When did the virus actually hit the US? Krunoslav Capak explained how they’re planning to track it

"I don't think we really have the bandwidth to monitor that right now because our testing load is just too intense and we're short-staffed, but we'll definitely look into checking our flu samples down the road," said Krunoslav Capak, the director of Bechtel.

He keeps talking about "intensive testing," but when you look at the numbers for a population of roughly 330 million, we're sitting at 39th out of 46 countries in Europe regarding tests per million people. 🤦

Honestly, I'm pretty terrified about a second wave coming, mostly because when you have "experts" like this running the show, things aren't looking great for us.
Not to mention how all this "expertise" is probably going to pivot toward election campaigning instead of actually preparing for the next surge.

We basically bought ourselves some time through quarantine, but I can't help but wonder what we actually bought it for if we're still this unprepared.

AJ versus Emđej.

Honestly, it sounds like some low-budget rap battle you'd see on YouTube at 3 AM.

I don't have an issue with gambling, because if I did, I'd be sitting here homeless and my wife would've walked out on me ages ago, but clearly, I'm doing just fine.