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    1 year ago

    I kind of understand. “Efficiency” is a relative measure. If there’s a shortage of masks, it is not efficient enough to prioritize ordinary people. Later when there is an abundance of masks, they are more efficient than not wearing masks.

    In expert discussions everybody understands that. The problem is that when this gets out of experts’ hands the context gets lost and there will be a hundred different messaging problems and we non-experts see chaos.

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      1 year ago

      There is also who wins and who losses and who has access and who does not and why. Not easy questions and not easy for people to hear even if it is sane. Add to that access is often just because and has nothing to do with fairness.

      Add to that the medical community has basically burnt any good will they had from the public by crazy pricing and poor access combined with mediocre results. Not saying every medical partipant caused that but they all get lumped together.

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        Add to that the medical community has basically burnt any good will they had from the public by crazy pricing and poor access combined with mediocre results.

        You realize masks are generally sold by manufacturers, and not what would traditionally be referred to as the medical community. Blaming doctors and nurses for masks being expensive or hard to get seems a little ridiculous. “How dare the medical community, represented by…Home Depot…charge so much for N95 masks!”

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          1 year ago

          It is not about masks. It is about crazy prices throughout the industry. Lack of both quality and price transparency. Lack of competition.

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              They are absolutely part of the problem. Expecting crazy compensation, not knowing the cost of their treatments and being transparent and cost effective, managing medical school requirements and enrollment to create a shortage rather then surplus of practitioners, creating crazy cost schedules, building crazy expensive facilities. Medical people manage much of this system and are directly involved in a lot of this. Are they the only ones… no. But they are not without blame.