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    1. Sarah Constantin‏ @s_r_constantin Mar 11
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      But you know what? It cost me thousands of dollars, even with health insurance. And I had a perfectly healthy birth that didn’t need much medical intervention. Why am I paying thousands of dollars for, mostly, *company*?

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    2. Sarah Constantin‏ @s_r_constantin Mar 11
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      (Yeah, it’s a bit less risky to have a hospital birth than a home birth, and it makes a big difference in an emergency. But in most cases, you’re fine either way.)

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    3. Sarah Constantin‏ @s_r_constantin Mar 11
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      Doctors and nurses should not be the only professional be-nice-to-you-when-you’re-sick-ers. Medical hospitals should not be the only place you can go when you need caretaking.

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    4. Sarah Constantin‏ @s_r_constantin Mar 11
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      Before they could treat TB with antibiotics, they took sick people to sanitariums. Basically no effective medicine went on there, just rest, care, a change of scene, and natural beauty. This fundamentally makes sense to me, given a disease medicine doesn’t know how to treat yet.

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    5. Sarah Constantin‏ @s_r_constantin Mar 11
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      (Plus it’s good for public health! Keeps sick people from infecting others!)

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    6. Sarah Constantin‏ @s_r_constantin Mar 11
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      Immune function affects how well you recover from *a lot* of diseases; and it responds to stress. “Be nice to sick people and make their lives easier” is not pseudoscience; it makes a measurable difference.

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    7. Sarah Constantin‏ @s_r_constantin Mar 11
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      Obligatory topical tie-in: hospitals are gonna be overwhelmed with COVID19. Some people who get the disease need specialized equipment you can only get in an ICU to survive. Far more people are just gonna be, y’know, sick. Laid up, contagious, unable to get much done.

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    8. Sarah Constantin‏ @s_r_constantin Mar 11
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      We have *terrible* infrastructure as a society for dealing with “a lot of people need to rest up.” They’ll be clogging hospitals, they’ll be trying to push through and go to work, etc.

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    9. Sarah Constantin‏ @s_r_constantin Mar 11
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      It’s a measure of how good or bad we are at translating wealth into leisure, to see how well or poorly we can adapt to “lots of people are sick in bed.”

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    10. Andrew Rettek‏ @oscredwin Mar 11
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      Replying to @s_r_constantin

      I've seen claims that the US is often better than is commonly thought at turning wealth into leisure, we just consume our leisure through retirement and other means that aren't easily converted to "I need to stay in bed for 2 weeks right now."

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      Andrew Rettek‏ @oscredwin Mar 11
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      Replying to @oscredwin @s_r_constantin

      It's still a problem, just a different one.

      9:29 AM - 11 Mar 2020
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