Businesses and companies are compensated, so that after this disaster everyone can proceed as quickly as possible.
Everyone here has affordable health insurance $150 a month, USA $ 2000 month)
In the USA 90,000,000 people not insured or under insured.
You have no concept of what you are talking about. Not one single person in the USA is without health care. If the lowliest bum comes into an ER, they are treated, regardless. What is lacking is someone else to pay for it. An individual pays, or the hospitals just eat the costs. No one goes without urgent care. That was the principle selling point of "Obamacare" - get rid of what the always erudite great thinker Nancy Pelosi continually referred to as "free riders", since everyone always got the necessary care, but bums were not paying for it.
If you just cover (pay the bills for) everyone with anything (which include elective surgery for things like "gender reassignment" - an outrageously expensive mutilation due to a psychological disorder), it is no longer "insurance", it is shared payement/socialized medicine. So, I no longer get to decide how much risk VS how much coverage for myself, people just *take money from me and give it to perverts and imbeciles for anything they want on a whim*. My total medical costs for the past 58 years is on the order of $3000 (most of which came when I had to go to the ER for a kidney stone). Now, lucky for me, I am covered, and paying for prenatal care, for example. I might not have been willing to pay for that myself, I mean, just because I am a man and almost 60, I think my chances of becoming pregnant is something I am willing to risk paying for myself.
With the current measures en the EU, there is enough room in the ICs for everyone, if necessary.
Well, we know that is not true, Italy's health care system has been overwhelmed, and they are employing exactly the sort of "Death Panels" that Sarah Palin was mercilessly mocked for. This is the primary example used, by the left, to justify draconian "shelter in place orders". That's the principle behind "flattening the curve" - not to reduce the total number of cases, but to slow the rate of new infection to something the system can handle.
Measures are communicated between the states across the EU, but customization is possible in each state. ( In the USA on federal level there is not much activity, states care for their self)
Everything is being done to protect vulnerable groups, such as the elderly, or people of frail health, from the virus.
Many retired doctors and nurses have resumed their work without any burocracy.
I my self did the shopping for an older neighbor.
All things considered,the people appreciate the government and our Congress for the way things are handled, but also the politicians who have put aside their party positions, except for some of the populist far right.
The general feeling is; we are all in the same boat.
But maybe we can also use American solutions;
For example, I read in the newspaper that in a number of places in the USA the stocks of ammo in shops are exhausted, and that people are now buying an assault rifle for the first time in their lives.
That will improve the situation a lot.
No one is all that worried about maurading bands looking for food. They *are* worried about the casual elimination of their personal liberty - a concept I don't expect you to be capable of understanding.
We are supposed to be, and are very happy to be, different from the decaying world of Europe. If you want to learn more, you should probably start here:
https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/constitution-transcript Which describes what we are doing, and what sort of old world ideas we are quite intentionally discarding. You might note the 1st amendment discussion of "free assembly", "practice of religion" (both of which are nominally suspended in California right now - but would not withstand a legal challenge) and the 2nd amendment discussion of gun rights. This is not just something some old farts a long time ago came up with off the tops of their heads, it is the highest law of the land. It's also why "shelter in place" is unenforcable governmental overstep.
I understand that you are in the EU, and have no notion of any of these concepts. Either you can learn them, or not, makes no difference to me. I would suggest that you kindly refrain from judging us, and offering any "helpful opinions" about how stupid we are. We aren't the ones who don't get it - you might want to look up what the "Dunning-Kruger effect" is, and then see if it sounds familiar.
Brett
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