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If we didn't do the lockdowns then we would have seen a huge increase in mortality over all age groups as hospitals where overwhelmed. Also, Long Covid is very

If we didn't do the lockdowns then we would have seen a huge increase in mortality over all age groups as hospitals where overwhelmed. Also, Long Covid is very much a thing. I get it though: teenagers are growing up during a once in a century pandemic in the middle of an existential climate crisis which the old leaders (all 70+ in the US!) are not addressing.

sva_ 5y ago
> once in a century pandemic That's pretty optimistic. I hope you're right.
- dgeiser13 5y ago
  We will have another one within 10 years.
spookthesunset 5y ago
> If we didn't do the lockdowns then we would have seen a huge increase in mortality over all age groups as hospitals where overwhelmed. This is just wishful thinking. There is no real way to know if lockdowns had any material impact on hospital capacity. And besides, we had field hospitals set up in the early days... though they were all closed because they didn't get used. Hmmmmm....
- jeromegv 5y ago
  Canada had field hospitals. And they were used. Here’s an example. Sunnybrook hospital in toronto. One of the leading trauma hospital in the country. They also brought military to help. https://beta.ctvnews.ca/local/toronto/2021/4/30/1_5409214.html https://beta.ctvnews.ca/local/toronto/2021/4/30/1_5409214.ht... Just one example among many.
  - spookthesunset 5y ago
    "That happened on Monday when the first patient arrived. There are now six patients there and another two are expected by the end of Friday." In a province with 14.7 million people... Society has to grind to a halt for a few hundred people... how does that make any sense?
Lammy 5y ago
> as hospitals where overwhelmed. Nobody seemed to mind very much during all those other years: https://www.google.com/search?q=intitle:hospitals+intitle:overwhelmed+before:2019&filter=0 https://www.google.com/search?q=intitle:hospitals+intitle:ov... https://www.google.com/search?q=intitle:hospitals+intitle:%22breaking+point%22+before:2019&filter=0 https://www.google.com/search?q=intitle:hospitals+intitle:%2...
jokethrowaway 5y ago
The percentage of young people who needed to be hospitalised for covid is still very small. A lot of the symptoms of long covid seems to be fatigue / depression related. The climate crisis is the last of our concerns, technology is well on its way to improve the situation and paving the way for renewables. Now, if the governments of the world would stop messing up (eg. by removing nuclear power, or waging wars against each other), that'd be great.

sva_ 5y ago

> once in a century pandemic That's pretty optimistic. I hope you're right.

dgeiser13 5y ago
We will have another one within 10 years.

spookthesunset 5y ago

> If we didn't do the lockdowns then we would have seen a huge increase in mortality over all age groups as hospitals where overwhelmed. This is just wishful thinking. There is no real way to know if lockdowns had any material impact on hospital capacity. And besides, we had field hospitals set up in the early days... though they were all closed because they didn't get used. Hmmmmm....

jeromegv 5y ago
Canada had field hospitals. And they were used. Here’s an example. Sunnybrook hospital in toronto. One of the leading trauma hospital in the country. They also brought military to help. https://beta.ctvnews.ca/local/toronto/2021/4/30/1_5409214.html https://beta.ctvnews.ca/local/toronto/2021/4/30/1_5409214.ht... Just one example among many.
- spookthesunset 5y ago
  "That happened on Monday when the first patient arrived. There are now six patients there and another two are expected by the end of Friday." In a province with 14.7 million people... Society has to grind to a halt for a few hundred people... how does that make any sense?

Lammy 5y ago

> as hospitals where overwhelmed. Nobody seemed to mind very much during all those other years: https://www.google.com/search?q=intitle:hospitals+intitle:overwhelmed+before:2019&filter=0 https://www.google.com/search?q=intitle:hospitals+intitle:ov... https://www.google.com/search?q=intitle:hospitals+intitle:%22breaking+point%22+before:2019&filter=0 https://www.google.com/search?q=intitle:hospitals+intitle:%2...

jokethrowaway 5y ago

The percentage of young people who needed to be hospitalised for covid is still very small. A lot of the symptoms of long covid seems to be fatigue / depression related. The climate crisis is the last of our concerns, technology is well on its way to improve the situation and paving the way for renewables. Now, if the governments of the world would stop messing up (eg. by removing nuclear power, or waging wars against each other), that'd be great.