https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/21/opinions/medical-cost-of-covid-19-is-bigger-than-virus-chang-barry/index.html
It's short, but I thought this was a bit of an interesting opinion piece about some stuff I’ve thought about since this whole thing really got going; highlighting just a few of the fallout aspects of what has been happening.
I’ve been curious about what happens when people suddenly don’t have jobs to pay for homes, and lose health insurance and never find a new one. How many people with insurance end up putting off preventative care, seeking help when they otherwise would, or skip what they think is non-essential testing because maybe it’s not even being offered right now? What happens when you’ve had suicidal tendencies and find your self stuck at home alone, and treatment options aren’t in a great place? What happens when you are forced to say at home all day, every day with someone that would beat you on occasion before they got fired? (that's what I think about not what is in the piece)
When it comes to people losing jobs it’s pretty easy to wonder how mortgages and rent will get paid, but I’m sure ripple effects go way deeper and darker than we can really even comprehend. I think it’s worth thinking about and paying attention to what we can.
I’m not really saying anything beyond that this situation is really complex. That when trying to figure out how dangerous this thing really is has a lot of layers to it, and that surviving it is more complicated than the one dimensional idea of just not getting the thing. Not in the interest of being morbid, but trying to understand what the actual shape of the danger really is, and to be understanding of what people are going through.
Even though it seems like everyone is an expert at times, nobody has ever been through this before, and nobody really knows where all this will take us.