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Try this exercise: - Google the # of hospital beds in the UK - Google the # of ventilators in the UK - Pick your own fraction as to how many are currently av
by runako 7y ago
Try this exercise:
- Google the # of hospital beds in the UK
- Google the # of ventilators in the UK
- Pick your own fraction as to how many are currently available
- pick your own fraction of 40mm that will require hospitalization
- pick your own fraction of 40mm that will require ventilation
- Make your assumptions fit the # of hospital beds and ventilators
I haven't done all the arithmetic, but my gut says you will end up assuming that people in the "young" bucket are all essentially immune to severe forms of the disease. This is at odds with evidence in e.g. France, which would indicate a problem with your assumptions.
- tigershark 7y agoThis is at odds with what anyone that is remotely looking at the numbers is thinking. It’s really a joke that so many people here are defending the suicidal choice of boris that is going to produce 1M deaths in the best scenario that I can think of unless it changes everything from YESTERDAY, not from now.
- runako 7y agoJust to clarify: I was not defending the idiotic choice of the UK government. Was helping lay out numbers to show how stupid that decision is.