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The death rate is one thing but the hospitalization rate should not be ignored. We've seen the overflowing capacity in New York and other places so we need to b
by WheelsAtLarge 6y ago
The death rate is one thing but the hospitalization rate should not be ignored. We've seen the overflowing capacity in New York and other places so we need to be careful with just quoting the death rate and feeling that it's no big deal. Whatever the death rate is we know that over 100k people have died. And who knows how many thousands of survivors have dealt and will deal with the damage the virus inflicts on their bodies. We should not take that lightly.
I'm one that thinks that face masks and keeping social distance is the best way to go. If we followed that without fail the transmission rate would collapse and we would be close to normal.
- nikolay 6y agoThis is the biggest thing people don't get - this is not the flu and surviving it or having mild symptoms does not mean that you didn't signed up a chornic CVD or metabolic disease based on the early data that the virus causes a permanent myocardic injury, lung scaring, and God knows what else. We'll be studying the damage for the decades to come! I think many people forget that even the "benign" HPV causes different types of cancer, and we recently found it. So, a new virus means being extra careful, but how can you explain this to people who strongly believe that Bill Gates wants to chip them thru vaccines and that 5G kills birds and people?
- tinus_hn 6y agoYou are putting up a straw man and then taking it down. Not everyone who is not panicking about COVID-19 is a conspiracy theorist.
- WheelsAtLarge 6y agoIt does not change the primary narrative. COVID is dangerous and highly contagious so we need to be careful and not treat it lightly.
- tinus_hn 6y agoMany things are dangerous. Being careful means evaluating risks, not hysterically avoiding all risks at any cost. Smoking costs more lives than COVID-19 and it is much easier to save these lives. Yet it’s acceptable to do very little. But somehow COVID-19 warrants endless lockdowns.
- tinus_hn 6y agoOverflowing hospitals with simultaneous overcapacity in unused emergency hospitals. A major cause of this overflowing is poor distribution.
- WheelsAtLarge 6y agoIt's almost impossible to do both. You can't repurpose opticians as emergency techs in a short time. It doesn't work. Hospitals are built given certain make up and it's hard to change that in a short time.
- tinus_hn 6y agoBoth what? You’re not making a lot of sense here.