These labor aristocrats are lucky they lost their health insurance and not their jobs TBH. Capitalism left to its own devices will eat us all alive, and as long as you remain focused on your situational privileges, shit like this will sneak up on you and wipe you out.
I wish I was unionized, but I used to work in a well-paying, stable, blue collar medical device manufacturing job. Ironically, the company had to lay off 25-50% of the workforce IN THE MIDST OF A GLOBAL PANDEMIC, because most of the components we manufactured were for elective surgeries. Apparently, knee and hip implants are way down as the wards are filled with Covid patients.
Funny enough, they are still covering my health insurance for a three month furlough, but I am out of work and I don't have high expectations that the company will manage to resume the manufacturing capacity they had before the crisis.
okay the elective there isn't a capitalism thing, it's a medical thing like – patient will not die if we don't do this surgery so we will schedule it properly and plan for it. The doctor and the patient will talk and map out rehab and attempt to maximise recovery and outcomes. We will not have to use the emergency Operating Theatres.
Covid is a seriously bad time to do elective surgeries because the patient is now extremely immunocompromised in a hospital full of corona ready to have fascinating new complications.
These labor aristocrats are lucky they lost their health insurance and not their jobs TBH. Capitalism left to its own devices will eat us all alive, and as long as you remain focused on your situational privileges, shit like this will sneak up on you and wipe you out.
I wish I was unionized, but I used to work in a well-paying, stable, blue collar medical device manufacturing job. Ironically, the company had to lay off 25-50% of the workforce IN THE MIDST OF A GLOBAL PANDEMIC, because most of the components we manufactured were for elective surgeries. Apparently, knee and hip implants are way down as the wards are filled with Covid patients.
Funny enough, they are still covering my health insurance for a three month furlough, but I am out of work and I don't have high expectations that the company will manage to resume the manufacturing capacity they had before the crisis.
I'd like to imagine one day we'll live in a world where surgery to alleviate debilitating pain isn't an elective procedure. That would kick ass.
okay the elective there isn't a capitalism thing, it's a medical thing like – patient will not die if we don't do this surgery so we will schedule it properly and plan for it. The doctor and the patient will talk and map out rehab and attempt to maximise recovery and outcomes. We will not have to use the emergency Operating Theatres.
Covid is a seriously bad time to do elective surgeries because the patient is now extremely immunocompromised in a hospital full of corona ready to have fascinating new complications.
Huh, I didn't know that. Thanks for the education, comrade.
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