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So what do you do with the infected people that turn up at the overcrowded hospital? Let them die on the street? Overall COVID19 mortality is still around 2%.

So what do you do with the infected people that turn up at the overcrowded hospital? Let them die on the street? Overall COVID19 mortality is still around 2%. In Germany, for example, we currently have 100k deaths. That would increase fivefold if you let every currently unvaccinated person get infected, and that's assuming we can provide the same level of care for all of them (i.e. hospitals are not over capacity). > Perhaps we should ask why there isn’t any effort at all into increasing it? - Building hospitals generally takes more than 1.5 years. - Training nurses does too, although at least there is some elasticity in supply. - Mortality among patients hospitalized with COVID 19 is around 10%. Keeping them out of the hospital in the first place is much more effective than increasing hospital capacity.

spookthesunset 5y ago
> Overall COVID19 mortality is still around 2%. It’s not even close to that. Not even in the same ballpark.
- MauranKilom 5y ago
  According to the graphs on worldometers.info for Germany (https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/germany/ https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/germany/): > Oct 30 2020: 10.5k total deaths, 517k total cases > Dec 01 2021: 101k total deaths, 5.9 mil total cases So in the last ~year, we had 5.4 mil cases and 90.5k deaths. That's a 1.67% mortality. Please show me the error. Also, feel free to engage with the other points I made.
  - spookthesunset 5y ago
    If you are almost 2 years into this and don’t know why IFR is a more valid metric than CFR, I doubt the media, nor the policy makers, nor most of the “experts” don’t either. The profound lack of understanding the reams and reams of raw data surrounding Covid… no wonder people are scared.