New Posts For Thread: why are so many people not going to hospital when dying of corona virus ?https://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/31644457/why-are-so-many-people-not-going-to-hospital-when-dying-of-corona-virusgovernment policy or choice not to go to hospital?Your uncle is clearly not representative of the average care home resident. Nobody is saying that they should all be banned from going to hospital, but should (and will) only go if it's in their best interest.https://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/31644457/why-are-so-many-people-not-going-to-hospital-when-dying-of-corona-virus?post_id=559248383#559248383Your uncle is clearly not representative of the average care home resident. Nobody is saying that they should all be banned from going to hospital, but should (and will) only go if it's in their best interest.Wed, 29 Apr 2020 09:28:36 -0500I think when you get to 60 you should take a mental health/personality/ISTP test in advance ...some people more suited to care homes and being around people ...for me the idea of a home would drive me fooken nuts as you are SURROUNDED by people mahttps://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/31644457/why-are-so-many-people-not-going-to-hospital-when-dying-of-corona-virus?post_id=559246209#559246209I think when you get to 60 you should take a mental health/personality/ISTP test in advance ...some people more suited to care homes and being around people ...for me the idea of a home would drive me fooken nuts as you are SURROUNDED by people maTue, 28 Apr 2020 16:20:03 -0500Possibly cos they aint dying from coronavirus ?https://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/31644457/why-are-so-many-people-not-going-to-hospital-when-dying-of-corona-virus?post_id=559246167#559246167Possibly cos they aint dying from coronavirus ?Tue, 28 Apr 2020 16:12:23 -0500not all folk in care homes are going to die within two yearsi have an uncle who is aged 92 and moved into his carehome over ten years ago.he is lucky his carehome have a policy of lockdown that was imposed before governmentadvice.fingers crossed he ahttps://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/31644457/why-are-so-many-people-not-going-to-hospital-when-dying-of-corona-virus?post_id=559246039#559246039not all folk in care homes are going to die within two yearsi have an uncle who is aged 92 and moved into his carehome over ten years ago.he is lucky his carehome have a policy of lockdown that was imposed before governmentadvice.fingers crossed he aTue, 28 Apr 2020 15:50:29 -0500That was part of the overall judgement. There's no economic factors involved, in theory banning care home visits would have been one of the easiest measures to take. The constant need to play top trumps with covid 19 is such a futile one. Nobody hashttps://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/31644457/why-are-so-many-people-not-going-to-hospital-when-dying-of-corona-virus?post_id=559245175#559245175That was part of the overall judgement. There's no economic factors involved, in theory banning care home visits would have been one of the easiest measures to take. The constant need to play top trumps with covid 19 is such a futile one. Nobody hasTue, 28 Apr 2020 14:02:01 -0500Ethics an impossible conversation to have as you will find it very difficult to get people to agreePersonally I would say that a huge percentage of care home residents would not tolerate or benefit from hospitalization let alone ventilation and ICUhttps://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/31644457/why-are-so-many-people-not-going-to-hospital-when-dying-of-corona-virus?post_id=559245173#559245173Ethics an impossible conversation to have as you will find it very difficult to get people to agreePersonally I would say that a huge percentage of care home residents would not tolerate or benefit from hospitalization let alone ventilation and ICUTue, 28 Apr 2020 14:01:43 -0500About 10 years ago my wife helped out with a christian charity, and one of the people she helped was a bloke with both legs amputaed. We even had him over to watch the CL final when Inter Milan won. One day he told her he had a secret. That he'd khttps://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/31644457/why-are-so-many-people-not-going-to-hospital-when-dying-of-corona-virus?post_id=559245155#559245155About 10 years ago my wife helped out with a christian charity, and one of the people she helped was a bloke with both legs amputaed. We even had him over to watch the CL final when Inter Milan won. One day he told her he had a secret. That he'd kTue, 28 Apr 2020 14:00:01 -0500I visited my gran in a care home. Luckily my other three grandparents died without needing one. I recall she hated it. She got gangreen, needed her leg cut off, and quite rightly decided death was preferable for everyone.https://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/31644457/why-are-so-many-people-not-going-to-hospital-when-dying-of-corona-virus?post_id=559245099#559245099I visited my gran in a care home. Luckily my other three grandparents died without needing one. I recall she hated it. She got gangreen, needed her leg cut off, and quite rightly decided death was preferable for everyone.Tue, 28 Apr 2020 13:52:26 -0500The French Care Home thread is a better one,there were problems in Italy ans Spain,even Ireland were warning later, if you think that only closing on the 23rd of March to facilitate visiting was a good idea, well...I am not saying it wasn't going tohttps://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/31644457/why-are-so-many-people-not-going-to-hospital-when-dying-of-corona-virus?post_id=559245097#559245097The French Care Home thread is a better one,there were problems in Italy ans Spain,even Ireland were warning later, if you think that only closing on the 23rd of March to facilitate visiting was a good idea, well...I am not saying it wasn't going toTue, 28 Apr 2020 13:51:35 -0500I'm not saying they're fcked anyway, I'm saying only a tiny minority would benefit from going to hospital with covid 19. You have to look at the situation in the round, rather than like the mainstream media desperate for the latest alarmist attentionhttps://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/31644457/why-are-so-many-people-not-going-to-hospital-when-dying-of-corona-virus?post_id=559245049#559245049I'm not saying they're fcked anyway, I'm saying only a tiny minority would benefit from going to hospital with covid 19. You have to look at the situation in the round, rather than like the mainstream media desperate for the latest alarmist attentionTue, 28 Apr 2020 13:42:09 -0500