Now there is one of the biggest travesties of the medical World's response to this plague!
If you get Covid-19 and end up in the hospital like I did, at least in the US, they will want to put you on a ventilator. I would appreciate any real informed confirmation or corrections on this, but I'm told the hospital gets an extra $38,000 in government funding if they put you on a ventilator. I absolutely did NOT need to be put on a ventilator. However that was the first thing they wanted to do! I'm probably alive today because I had an excellent, intelligent, informed advocate who can communicate very well with medical knowledge and real World experience.
In talking to the nurses, and in 18 days you do get to know them.... it started out that the discussion was "about 50% die while intibated". As we continued communing on the subject, especially with the male nurses who seem much more direct, it was moving towards 30% survival. Moreover you can about be guaranteed to come out with permanent negative lifetime effects. Such as scar tissue in your lungs, possibly having a stroke while down, etc. If I had been intibated and survived, I do not believe I could still be planning a 3 week full bag hunt in Tanzania. Much less anything that resembles the life I'm accustomed to living.
I would have gladly written a check for $38,000 to have them stop threatening to put me on that damned machine, give me some vitamins and a strong course of Z Pak. Oh and maybe follow some semblance of common sense treatment and therapy.
All those doctors gave a shit about was to follow the "CDC Guidelines" so they can collect their government money and be immune from a lawsuit. They pretty much left me to rot the first 10 days or so until they figured out I was to ornery to die....
No, you can take your damned government health system and shove it where the sun doesn't shine for all of me.