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I've wondered about the deaths being down and whether or not all the low hanging easy to pick off fruit from the virus' perspective is eaten up. The virus will
by jxramos 6y ago
I've wondered about the deaths being down and whether or not all the low hanging easy to pick off fruit from the virus' perspective is eaten up. The virus will then work its way through a healthier populace and not result in so many deaths.
Do all pandemics work that way more or less?
- gridlockd 6y agoI would assume so, but that alone doesn't explain why regions that haven't been exposed strongly until summer fare so much better than regions exposed earlier.
- dabbledash 6y agoJust a guess, but maybe better isolation of the the most vulnerable (so the people getting sick now are younger), and more knowledge about how to treat those who end up hospitalized.
- hinkley 6y agoIt's hard to have this conversation with people. I believe that the morbidity rate is lower than we have estimated. Sure, we probably have a lot of people who have had the virus and didn't develop symptoms. But we are still on our way to a million dead, so that hardly matters. The other aspect the lackadaisical are ignoring is that the morbidity rate is only where it is because the number of critical patients is hovering around the carrying capacity of our medical infrastructure. More cases means a dog-leg in deaths because they will have to give up on people to save others. There will be no more heroic actions to save mom or dad once you can fill the ICU entirely with people with far better prognoses. Mom isn't going into the ICU because it's already full of athletes and people under 30. She's going on morphine and you can say goodbye over a phone.