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Well at least in the Netherlands your claim is false.

They don't want you at the hospital unless it is absolutely necessary. Got a fever and still able te breath: stay at home.

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It's the same in the US. They won't even test you here unless you're having trouble breathing.

That's not even true. I've had pain breathing for weeks, they still won't test. They prescibed corticosteroids, antibiotics and bed rest. They won't test until you're nearly dead. the CFR here is wildly overestimated.

While that is clearly true, it doesn't change the fact that every population to encounter this virus so far has overwhelmed the available medical provisions. There are people in Italy choosing to drown in their own bodily fluids rather than face the dying the same way in isolation.

It doesn't really matter whether the odds are more like winning a bottle of wine in a charity raffle or losing a game of Russian roulette.

Too true

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