look wrote:servodude wrote:look wrote:
I guess that's an interesting spin on "if you don't test you can't find cases"?
- with a good layer of antibiotic-resistant bacteria on top
- sd
No, it isn't a spin of "if you don't test you can't find"
It's a question of availability and velocity.
if there were no doctors, then when you notice that you can have the disease, you would buy the remedies immediately.
As the doctors exist and you need their receipt, you will lost 1, 2 or 3 weeks until you can buy the medicines, and many people are dying because of this burocracy.
There is no way to know if your respiratory symptoms might be a cold, flu, hayfever, pet allergy or COVID19 without a test
There is no way to confirm if your anosmia is due to sinusitis, smoking, brain aneurism, Huntington's disease or COVID19 without a test
There are no treatments for COVID that help mild cases; anything thus far proven to make a difference is in a clinical setting and for cases that have required medical intervention, and the correct medical intervention at that. For that you need doctors
If you want to buy a remedy that you think might alleviate your symptoms I don't think there's anywhere that stops that?
- but without regulation of drugs there would be people overdosing on things that can hurt, that are not the medicine they thought they needed, or needlessly filling themselves with antibiotics (with all the future problems that will bring)
Selling medicines that can be harmful to the patient or to society without regulation is not a good idea
-sd