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But it has far more than “delayed the inevitable.” The things we’ve tried to protect people have (a) enabled us to stave off a lot of infections until this late
by moistly 5y ago
But it has far more than “delayed the inevitable.” The things we’ve tried to protect people have (a) enabled us to stave off a lot of infections until this latest less-lethal variant evolved, and (b) helped reduce hospital loads. Things would be orders of magnitude worse had we not tried to protect people.
- josephcsible 5y agoAccepting those points for the sake of argument, now that the less-lethal variant is here, why haven't we stopped doing those things yet?
- moistly 5y agoI don’t like to think people are stupid, so I’m going to believe you are being disingenuous and already know the answer. Nonetheless I’ll spell it out: at a quarter of the the hospitalization rate but 4x the rate of spread, omicron overloads the healthcare system just as much as delta. The math is so very simple and obvious that it’s embarrassing. In the USA omicron deaths are now outpacing delta’s. That is why we haven’t stopped doing things to slow its spread. https://www.wsj.com/articles/omicron-deaths-in-u-s-exceed-deltas-peak-as-covid-19-optimism-rises-in-europe-11643201653 https://www.wsj.com/articles/omicron-deaths-in-u-s-exceed-de... I see in your post history that you like to downplay the pandemic and the healthcare crisis it has caused. Why are you like this? What do you gain by it?