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What's going to happen if they simply do nothing? Basically, if they treat it like flu?



Most likely nothing serious, but given their remote location, if they get unlucky and even one person needs hospital treatment beyond what's possible at the base, that's a big problem.


Just like when any other issue arises that requires hospitalization.


The issues they're not able to deal with tend to be slow burners. You might get a week to plan an evacuation or supply drop for a cancer patient. But with Covid Pneumonia not so much.


So what would a mainland hospital be able to do what they can’t do? Using what supplies they can’t get in advance?


That's a great question. I wonder if they took a belt-and-braces approach — as well as all the quarantining and testing, bring along some remdesivir/molnupiravir/ritonavir/etc, monoclonal antibodies and so on, just in case you get really really unlucky and one of the (presumably quite fit and healthy) people ends up with a severe case.


It would very likely spread and infect more people. And by 'it' I mean awareness about how most of the measures are useless and that the vast majority of infections are benign.




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