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That's not what happens when the disease gets out of control. When that happens, hospitals fill up, death rates for everything shoot up.
by sudosysgen 5y ago
That's not what happens when the disease gets out of control.
When that happens, hospitals fill up, death rates for everything shoot up.
- thrower123 5y agoThis is much repeated, but has never actually happened.
- unearth3d 5y agoAlready happening, there are 100s of articles like this, https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2021/08/16/joel-valdez-houston-covid-hospitals/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2021/08/16/joel-valdez...
- unearth3d 5y agoThat's a primary reason we're so serious about it in NZ, also it would kill tens of thousands of our native people.
- paulddraper 5y agoOf course. That's the idea of flattening the curve.
- sudosysgen 5y agoWhich is the strategy in the North America and Europe. And it requires a ton of effort. So no, it's not just 0.2% When you try to flatten the curve you still need to keep 2-3 weeks of headroom because exponential growth is a bitch.