More than 600 DOCTORS Sign Letter to President Trump Urging Him to END LOCKDOWN

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The doctors called the widespread state orders keeping businesses closed and kids home from school a “mass casualty incident” with “exponentially growing health consequences.”

What took so long?

Doctors raise alarm about health effects of continued coronavirus shutdown: ‘Mass casualty incident’

By Tyler Olson | Fox News

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More than 600 doctors signed onto a letter sent to President Trump Tuesday pushing him to end the “national shutdown” aimed at slowing the spread of the coronavirus, calling the widespread state orders keeping businesses closed and kids home from school a “mass casualty incident” with “exponentially growing health consequences.”

The letter outlines a variety of consequences that the doctors have observed resulting from the coronavirus shutdowns, including patients missing routine checkups that could detect things like heart problems or cancer, increases in substance and alcohol abuse, and increases in financial instability that could lead to “[p]overty and financial uncertainty,” which “is closely linked to poor health.”

“We are alarmed at what appears to be the lack of consideration for the future health of our patients,” the doctors say in their letter. “The downstream health effects … are being massively under-estimated and under-reported. This is an order of magnitude error.”

A Doctor a Day Letter – Signed by Fox News on Scribd

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The letter continues: “The millions of casualties of a continued shutdown will be hiding in plain sight, but they will be called alcoholism, homelessness, suicide, heart attack, stroke, or kidney failure. In youths it will be called financial instability, unemployment, despair, drug addiction, unplanned pregnancies, poverty, and abuse.

“Because the harm is diffuse, there are those who hold that it does not exist. We, the undersigned, know otherwise.”

The letter comes as the battle over when and how to lift coronavirus restrictions continues to rage on cable television, in the courts, in protests and among government officials. Those for lifting the restrictions have warned about the economic consequences of keeping the shutdowns in effect. Those advocating a more cautious approach say that having more people out and about will necessarily end with more people becoming infected, causing what National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director Dr. Anthony Fauci warned in a Senate hearing last week would be preventable “suffering and death.”

But these doctors point to others that are suffering, not from the economy or the virus, but simply from not being able to leave home. The doctors’ letter lists a handful of patients by their initials and details their experiences.

“Patient E.S. is a mother with two children whose office job was reduced to part-time and whose husband was furloughed,” the letter reads. “The father is drinking more, the mother is depressed and not managing her diabetes well, and the children are barely doing any schoolwork.”

“Patient A.F. has chronic but previously stable health conditions,” it continues. “Her elective hip replacement was delayed, which caused her to become nearly sedentary, resulting in a pulmonary embolism in April.”

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Commieobamie
Commieobamie
3 years ago

You’re FREE to move about the country. DemoCommies; the TRUE ENEMIES of the United States.

Millionmileman
Millionmileman
3 years ago

I was aware of this potential nightmare occurring from the onset becuse I am a critical thinker. Many Rush fans maybe familiar with Milwaukee’s WISN’ Mark Belling who used to fill in for his show. Well mark on this podcast explaind how dystopic the future of big city life will become

Sit down and absorb reality. Furthermore Democrat Mayors are doubling down!

https://www.iheart.com/podcast/139-the-mark-belling-show-24992319/episode/51920-side-effects-of-covid-19-new-62746717/

spfoam1
spfoam1
3 years ago

The states are locked down. “widespread state orders”

The worst of them are Democrat states, and not by coincidence.

We were forced into a bloodbath when the Democrats released this virus. Once you are forced into a fight, you have to fight back or you get your ass kicked. This is nothing compared to what they have planned if they get the power they are after. They murdered people across the globe to take the power they need to murder even more.

DemocracyRules
DemocracyRules
3 years ago

Good idea to end the lock-down now, to open fully later
One big reason to end it now is because that’s just the beginning. People lock themselves down, and that ends only gradually by itself. Examples:
1. Jane works at a florist shop, and the lock-down in her city ends. But business is still slow in town, and the florist gets by with one helper. Jane comes back to work two months later.
2. Doctor Gail is an oncologist who is not working because no patients are showing up for fear of Covid-19 infection. She starts doing home visits, but it takes three months for her practice to get fully back on track. By then she has re-hired all her nursing and office staff.

livingengine
livingengine
3 years ago

“This is an order of magnitude error.”

Sgtsnuffy
Sgtsnuffy
3 years ago

SORRY DOC’S BUT IT WASN’T THE POTUS THAT ORDERED THE LOCK DOWN IT WAS THE STATE GOVERNMENTS 99% CONTROLLED BY DEMOCRATS THAT LOCKED EVERYTHING DOWN. THE POTUS STAYED OUT OF IT BECAUSE OF HIS ADHERENCE TO THE CONSTITUTION AND BILL OF RIGHTS. NAMELY THE TENTH AMENDMENT. ONLY THE GOVERNORS CAN REALLY OPEN UP THEIR STATES UNLESS THE PEOPLE THEMSELVES DO IT, SINCE ACCORDING TO OUR CONSTITUTION “WE THE PEOPLE” ARE THE REAL ONES IN CHARGE OF OUR COUNTRY NOT SOME DAMNED BUERACRT.

Jess
Jess
3 years ago
Reply to  Sgtsnuffy

THIS DISEASE WILL DISAPPEAR UNKNOWINGLY JUST AS QUICKLY AS IT STARTED UNKNOWINGLY (OR SUPPOSEDLY FROM BATS OR CAMELS OR CRICKETS)

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