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Here's the 'LET"S GET REAL HERE!' Medical Profit Complex TRUTHS that you will NEVER read about from health care professionals in the USA, no matter how well intentioned:

There is NO CURE, OR EFFECTIVE THERAPY AVAILABLE to COVID-19 victims in a modern US Hospital, PERIOD. If you think they have tools that will "make it all better", you are fooling yourself. Their MAIN MOTIVE IS PROFIT, NOT CARE. I know it is real hard for all those happy Capitalists out there to wrap their brains around the fact that care, being subordinate to profit in the USA Medical Complex, has resulted in a ruinously degraded quality of the health care you get, but that is the truth.

The exception to that rule is trauma care from a car accident or broken bones from falling off the roof or something like that. Trauma care is EXCELLENT and must be used when you have a traumatic injury.

COVID-19 "care" is a VERY different story.

Even if you think I'm some "crazy reclusive paranoid commie", please look at these irrefutable facts about people who get COVID-19. The moment a person comes down with COVID-19, their immune system is SEVERELY compromised. When they are taken to a hospital, the possibility of DEATH from an acquired infection AT THE HOSPITAL is MUCH HIGHER than if they had stayed at home.

Finally, there is that "minor" issue of hospital bills when you are in critical condition. When a doctor decides you need a ventilator, THAT IS CRITICAL CONDITION. That means you go to the ICU. That means any and all insurance coverage will NOT cover within a week, at the most. If you are in an ICU for three weeks or more, that means GIGANTIC bills in the hundred of thousands of dollars. There is NOTHING more costly than ICU "care" (of course operations are hugely expensive, but normally you CAN find out in advance if they are covered by insurance).

So, unless you're extremely wealthy, a COVID-19 caused extended Hospital ICU "care" will bankrupt you on behalf of the Medical Profit Complex. 👎 You rich folks had better think about the ventilator use caused 30% chance of dying within a year...

I am in my seventies. My wife is a decade younger. I know what I am going to do if I get COVID-19. I figure my wife will do the same.

I am NOT   going to a hospital, here in Vermont, unless I am forced. And even then, I will do so screaming that I will not pay them a NICKEL for "care" beyond what Medicare (and Blue Cross, which I also have) covers. 

My wife and I are roughly in the same cohort and you and Carmen.

I just read your post to my wife as we sit here drinking morning coffee. Both of us agree with every word.
Best to not get this crap. Luckily "social isolation" is my new normal since retirement.



PS-- from my wife- new disease vector: touch screens at gas stations. Wear gloves when filling up.