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On the flip side, NYC just showed us they can suffer through 20% of the population becoming infected at about the same time without their hospitals utterly coll
by rootusrootus 7y ago
On the flip side, NYC just showed us they can suffer through 20% of the population becoming infected at about the same time without their hospitals utterly collapsing.
There is probably some happy medium somewhere. For certain, flattening the curve so much that there are just a few new infections every week is not how we end the lock down.
- mrfusion 7y agoIt’s up to 25% with the latest study. https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/cuomo-outlines-reopening-roadmap-for-new-york-as-daily-deaths-hit-lowest-level-in-weeks/2390949/ https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/cuomo-outlines-reopeni...
- gdilla 7y agoAnd? That was the point. It's better than 40% of the population becoming infected at the same time AND the hospitals totally collapsing.
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- rootusrootus 7y agoI'm sorry you misunderstood. ~20% was my upper bound, ~0 the lower bound, and my opinion that we should find a middle ground.
- throwaway1777 7y ago20 isn't actually the upper bound though