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Originally Posted by Mr.Coffee
But why is death the health consequence that is your arbitrary measuring stick for whether or not an ER is working?
That's what I don't understand about your position.
As pointed out by ozy there are a wide range of other health outcomes. Maybe what you mean is that the new norm of 10 hour waits is something that society better get used to.
But I disagree, I don't think Albertans should stand for that. Slava asks what can be done, here are a few of my uneducated random ideas:
1. Build another hospital (or two...) in Calgary, which has a small number now for a large population
2. Foster increased spending to nurses and doctors, figure out a way to get the money to front line workers to encourage workforce participation and retention
3. Require / strongly encourage post-secondary schools with dr / nursing / health care worker programs to bring in more applicants and lower the entry requirements a little bit. Engage with them and ask them why we are not pumping out more workers and then work with them to solve these specific problems.
4. This will be unpopular but do NOT institute masking. Masking has weakened society's collective immune systems and is contributing to a surge in non-covid related illnesses like RSV, flu, etc. We need to take the L for a year or two and get back to building up normal immune systems / stronger society. Masking was a good solution for COVID but is causing other bad health outcomes as people's immune systems are now weaker as a result of being isolated and not exposed to the various viruses that mutate and rampage through society every fall.
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This is false. Not sure where you got it from, but that's not how it works.
The point of masking at this point is to reduce transmission speed which will reduce burden on the system. It's not that no one will get infected, it just reduces the active level. And we don't need constant masking, just through this period. Maybe it will have to be every fall, who knows how this plays out in the future. But for now it's pretty obvious to experts what we should do. Maybe we should listen to them.