Doctors raise alarm about health effects of continued coronavirus shutdown: 'Mass casualty incident'

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More than 600 doctors signed onto a letter sent to President Trump Tuesday pushing him to end the "national shutdown" aimed at slowing the spread of the coronavirus, calling the widespread state orders keeping businesses closed and kids home from school a "mass casualty incident" with "exponentially growing health consequences."

The letter outlines a variety of consequences that the doctors have observed resulting from the coronavirus shutdowns, including patients missing routine checkups that could detect things like heart problems or cancer, increases in substance and alcohol abuse, and increases in financial instability that could lead to "[p]overty and financial uncertainty," which "is closely linked to poor health."

 

"We are alarmed at what appears to be the lack of consideration for the future health of our patients," the doctors say in their letter. "The downstream health effects ... are being massively under-estimated and under-reported. This is an order of magnitude error."

 

The letter continues: "The millions of casualties of a continued shutdown will be hiding in plain sight, but they will be called alcoholism, homelessness, suicide, heart attack, stroke, or kidney failure. In youths it will be called financial instability, unemployment, despair, drug addiction, unplanned pregnancies, poverty, and abuse.

 

"Because the harm is diffuse, there are those who hold that it does not exist. We, the undersigned, know otherwise."

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Result #1 of listening to the shutdown fanatics: Death and despair. The very thing alleged to try and stop, predictably facilitated thanks to obsessive tunnel vision.

 

Result #2: The predictable election PR aimed at hanging Trump with the choices they championed.

 

https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/20/business/economy-election-trump-biden-jobs/index.html

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Trump will lose in a landslide because of the economy, new election model predicts

 

The economy has gone from President Donald Trump's greatest political asset to perhaps his biggest weakness.

Unemployment is spiking at an unprecedented rate. Consumer spending is vanishing. And GDP is collapsing. History shows that dreadful economic trends like these spell doom for sitting presidents seeking reelection.

The coronavirus recession will cause Trump to suffer a "historic defeat" in November, a national election model released Wednesday by Oxford Economics predicted.

 

 

Didn't I tell you they'd be using this for election season? Don't worry though it's easy to figure out why CNN is citing this on their front page rather than their own polls. 

 

It was easy to tell that the desire to shut things down wasn't about health, it was about trying to hurt Trump, and the US, for voting for him. Other consequences are just collateral.

 

Edited May 21, 2020 by Burnt Reynolds

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Probably would get more attention if it was 200 Obama Alumni Association members writing a letter for Bill Barr to resign.

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In a letter to President Trump, more than 600 doctors called Tuesday for an end to the "national shutdown" aimed at slowing the spread of the coronavirus, calling the widespread state orders keeping businesses closed and kids home from school a "mass casualty incident" with "exponentially growing health consequences."

 

The letter outlines a variety of repercussions the doctors have observed resulting from the coronavirus shutdowns, including patients missing routine checkups that could detect things like heart problems or cancer, increases in substance and alcohol abuse, and increases in financial instability that could lead to "[p]overty and financial uncertainty," which "is closely linked to poor health."

 

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President Donald J. Trump

 

The White House 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW

 

Washington, D.C. 20500 May 19, 2020 Dear Mr. President: Thousands of physicians in all specialties and from all States would like to express our gratitude for your leadership. We write to you today to express our alarm over the exponentially growing negative health consequences of the national shutdown. In medical terms, the shutdown was a mass casualty incident. During a mass casualty incident, victims are immediately triaged to black, red, yellow, or green. The first group, triage level black, includes those who require too many resources to save during a mass crisis. The red group has severe injuries that are survivable with treatment, the yellow group has serious injuries that are not immediately life threatening, and the green group has minor injuries. The red group receives highest priority. The next priority is to ensure that the other two groups do not deteriorate a level. Decades of research have shown that by strictly following this algorithm, we save the maximum number of lives. Millions of Americans are already at triage level red. These include 150,000 Americans per month who would have had a new cancer detected through routine 

screening that hasn’t

 happened, millions who have missed routine dental care to fix problems strongly linked to heart disease/death, and preventable cases of stroke, heart attack, and child abuse. Suicide hotline phone calls have increased 600%. Tens of millions are at triage level yellow. Liquor sales have increased 300-600%, cigarettes sales have increased, rent has gone unpaid, family relationships have become frayed, and millions of well-child check-ups have been missed. Hundreds of millions are at triage level green. These are people who currently are solvent, but at risk should economic conditions worsen. Poverty and financial uncertainty is closely linked to poor health. A continued shutdown means hundreds of millions of Americans will downgrade a level. The following are real examples from our practices. Patient E.S. is a mother with two children whose office job was reduced to part-time and whose husband was furloughed. The father is drinking more, the mother is depressed and not managing her diabetes well, and the children are barely doing any schoolwork. Patient A.F. has chronic but previously stable health conditions. Her elective hip 

 

replacement was delayed, which caused her to become nearly sedentary, resulting in a pulmonary embolism in April. Patient R.T. is an elderly nursing home patient, who had a small stroke in early March but was expected to make a nearly complete recovery. Since the shutdown, he has had no physical or speech therapy, and no visitors. He has lost weight, and is deteriorating rather than making progress. Patient S.O. is a college freshman who cannot return to normal life, school, and friendships. He risks depression, alcohol abuse, drug abuse, trauma, and future financial uncertainty. We are alarmed at what appears to be the lack of consideration for the future health of our patients. The downstream health effects of deteriorating a level are being massively under-estimated and under-reported. This is an order of magnitude error. It is impossible to overstate the short, medium, and long-term harm 

to people’s 

health with a continued shutdown. Losing a job is 

one of life’s m

ost stressful events, and the effect on a 

person’s

 health is not lessened because it also has happened to 30 million other people. Keeping schools and universities closed is incalculably detrimental for children, teenagers, and young adults for decades to come. The millions of casualties of a continued shutdown will be hiding in plain sight, but they will be called alcoholism, homelessness, suicide, heart attack, stroke, or kidney failure. In youths it will be called financial instability, unemployment, despair, drug addiction, unplanned pregnancies, poverty, and abuse. Because the harm is diffuse, there are those who hold that it does not exist. We, the undersigned, know otherwise. Please let us know if we may be of assistance. Respectfully, Simone Gold, M.D., J.D. & >500 physicians (attached) 

Simone Gold, M.D., J.D.,Steven Abelowitz, M.D. Marc E. Adams, M.D. Jon Ahrendsen, M.D. Camille A. Alden, Ph.D. Rory Allen, D.O. David W. Allison, M.D. Richard Amerling, M.D. Neel Anand, M.D. Catherine Anderson, D.O., M.B.A. Maria-Lucia Anghel, M.D., M.B.A. Elena Antonelli, M.D. Shahzaib Anwar, M.D. Mario R. Anzaldua, M.D. Robert A. Appel, M.D. Deanna Armstrong, M.D. Patrick James Baggot, M.D. Martin H Bailey, M.D. Scott Barbour, M.D. Ronald M. Barke, M.D., F.A.B.O. Morton W. Barke, M.D., F.O.C.O.G. Jeffrey I. Barke, M.D., N.B.P.A.S. .....

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19 minutes ago, Ban Hammer said:

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Thanks, I guess it was on page two, sorry about the dupe.