Katty Kay: The Health Care System Just Can’t Withstand Us Reopening Right Now

‘A society and democracy without a robust health care system, under the pressure it’s been under the last month, is not a viable society’

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KAY: “I would recommend, for anyone who has a few minutes this morning, to go and watch Angela Merkel’s press conference on how she handles the coronavirus in her press briefings that she gave yesterday, where she lays out very clearly why we cannot afford to do exactly what they are suggesting, which is just let the older people die. It is not just about the people who might die. It is about the pressure on the health care system that will come if we open up the economy now. A society and democracy without a robust health care system, under the kind of pressure it’s been under the last month, is not a viable society. She lays it out very clearly. We open up now and one person infects two people, our health care system is shot by the time we get to September. They infect 1.5 people, it is shot by the time we get to November. It’s an incredibly compelling argument that this is not just about the humanity, that we as a society do not choose to let our old people die when we could save them in order to rescue the stock market and millionaires’ investments. But it's also about saving a vital part of our society, which is the health care system. It just can’t withstand us reopening right now."

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