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It's not the illness causing havoc, it's the country wide lockdown Most people dying have underlying conditions
by jokethrowaway 6y ago
It's not the illness causing havoc, it's the country wide lockdown
Most people dying have underlying conditions
- mschuster91 6y ago> It's not the illness causing havoc, it's the country wide lockdown It is the illness that's causing havoc because people are filling up all available ICU beds - and to make it worse, they're needing intensive care like ventilators and ECMO far longer than previous illnesses!
- jokethrowaway 6y agoThat's a true but questionable statement, because of how beds availability is handled by hospitals (at least here in the UK). A relative of mine is a doctor and beds occupancy is often high in this season: this is because hospitals try to work at capacity and extra beds can be converted into ICU beds when needed. This is how the NHS managed to survive the peak back in March (and how it will probably survive this peak which seems to have similar numbers). I'm sure saying it doesn't make for a very compelling headline though. Meanwhile people with more serious diseases (eg cancer) are postponing going to the hospital and dying. I also consider the lack of scaling capabilities of our public sector to be a shame and I think we should put the private (which was heavily affected by job loss caused by the lockdowns) sector to work on it (converting privately owned businesses into it, speed training people to deal with the illness - we had almost a year to prepare). But I don't see our society being agile enough to handle it in time from a regulatory point of view.