The Trump epidemic might make the U.S. the sickest population in the world for 20 or 30 years

[lostnfound]

How long will the epidemic last?
How long will survivors survive, with debilitating damage to lungs, kidneys, brain, heart, Gi system, and god knows what else?

How many will be incapacitated, unable to work, needing long-term nursing care, needing SSDI?

https://www.chron.com/news/medical/article/What-they-don-t-tell-you-about-surviving-15356605.php

[elleng]

1. True, and continually learning nature and extent of the damage for YEARS.

[mahina]

2. And getting on SSDI is a brutal long process, the first part of which is rejection of everyone.

Try to live with no income and no help for the year plus it takes to check off their boxes. Horrendous.

[Delmette2.0]

10. After approval a person has to wait two years to be Medicare eligible.

I hope the rules change for everyone. Oh wait, we could have Medicare for all !!!

[Demovictory9]

3. noooooooooooooooooooo

[Wounded Bear]

4. Until we get some kind of universal health care, we'll stay the sickest country in the world...nt

[appalachiablue]

5. What a tragedy and disgrace for the wealthiest country in world history.

[dalton99a]

6. Kick

[no_hypocrisy]

7. I have considered that even if I dodge the Virus THIS year,

I could die from it in the future. Three years from now, five years, 10 years. It's not going away.

[KY_EnviroGuy]

8. Trumpidemic or Trumpandemic, it may be called.

We'll never know the long-term cost of this epidemic unless a good democratic administration establishes a program of research to do so.

That research will take years so it must be codified into law so Republicans can't casually eliminate it. I suspect such programs have existed in the past but tRump has likely destroyed it. We can and must do better.

[Doreen]

9. I thought we already are the sickest population in the world.

I know we had/have Obama care but that had only gotten a chance to just get off the ground and had a lot of work to be done to get it closer to the point we wanted it at. The repukes blocked a lot and what we were able to get is being yanked out from under us. Isn't our rank of the healthiest nations low on the chart now?