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The reasons for it being so serious is not the death rate, but the rate of spread, due to lack of immunity, if you do nothing then hospital system gets overload
by concerned_user 7y ago
The reasons for it being so serious is not the death rate, but the rate of spread, due to lack of immunity, if you do nothing then hospital system gets overloaded and you will start seeing much higher death rates (see Italy, Spain) and not only from covid but across the board, heart disease, accidents people not receiving planned care and their chronic conditions worsening etc.
- Normal_gaussian 7y agoItaly and Spain have done from nothing.
- TheOtherHobbes 7y agoIt's not just the hospital system and it's not just the deaths, terrible as they are. You don't want a significant proportion of people in other key industries - policing, food production and distribution, utilities, logistics - off sick at the same time, because those systems will start to fail. And in many countries people in those industries are being sent home if they show any symptoms - never mind serious symptoms that require hospitalisation - because some of those jobs are public-facing. There's an obvious danger that a relatively small number of workers who deal with the public can infect a very large number of people.