That s lot of serious medical issues you got in a row, if true, I can see where u are coming from ( i spent once 3 months ina hospital apparently in a lot of pain but was very young, can t remember much)
About emergency services being overwhelmed it is not surprising, I ve seen emergency rooms in Paris in normal times and they are already overwhelmed and extremely distressful. One could film there on most nights and paint a horror story about it.
Also I spent years in China and found the health system decades behind the West, while also easily overwhelmed. Once our son ended up with a meningitis in the Children Hospital in Shenzhen, a very wealthy part of China, after the first 12 hours hanging around the emergency department waiting for some test and some space, he spent 24 hours in the waiting lounge of the neurology department while quite sick, along other kids. It happened that all kids had to spend a long while there upon arriving before they were assigned a bed in a room. Some of the kids were in a worst state and so were their parents, and the good thing was that the waiting room was rather clean, once our kid got a spot ina 4 beds room, it was so dirty my wife wouldn t even lay her handbag on the floor. Advice was shitty as expected in China and treatment unecessarily painful, we imagined our kid between life and death from talking with the chinese doctors and seing the mess the hospital was in, but after sending his blood test results and describing his condition to a french doctor, that doc told us it was viral and likely benign. Took us a few days to get him to Hong Kong, there s no medical transfer between China and Hong Kong and HK immigration doesn t want people with fever entering - nor the HK clinics want kids in life threatening conditions check in ime. Once he saw the doc at the HK hospital the doc sent him straight to the hotel as he appeared perfectly fine so we were having fun ina suite in the Mandarin Oriental that same night while in China they wanted to keep him hospitalised several more days. Next day he got a brain Mri which showed everything fine.
Point being if China managed to deal succesfully with Covid one woukd suspect it shouldn t be that hard for advanced countries, but several seem to be lacking the industrial ressources to get enough masks and other protective equipment . In spain authorities have been saying for a long time that masks were not needed but at the same time couldn t get enough of them, and still can't. They now seize masks shipments coming into the countries afaik. Seems the countries in Asia dealing well with virus have their population use face masks extensively. They would probably be keener on blifting the quarantine if people had enough masks to wear outside
Also wondering how much we can trust the news from China, there s news today the British are suspecting the Chinese to undereport the number of cases by 40 times or more ( i can post a link later)
Another point being there are a lot of nasty diseases and nasty ways to die, if one want a longer and eventless life they could not only lock themselves in but also get castration. It works great for pets but I would have suspected humans had slightly greater aspirations. The current freedom grab is outrageous.
