Originally Posted by
pinzgauer
Because those people are also in contact with high-risk people in many cases.
We can't prevent the spread, that ship sailed. It's here.
You can slow the spread, and I think we've done that. We were at risk of over-running hospital capacity to treat. Increased Bed capacity due to operational changes and logistical relief and in parallel, slowing the number of cases have kept us from overrunning the hospitals.
Now just like after hurricanes all the naysayers are going to come out of the woodwork and say the adverse impact from the preventive measures were worse then the risk.
But you don't know what it would have been like if we had not done the preventive measures. Our per capita death rate as of last week was significantly lower than Sweden's who went very lightweight action. Our per capita deaths would have been greater than Sweden's just in general, and much worse with covid.
It kills me to see alarming headlines proclaiming that 90% of New York's death had comorbidities. Then in the article they explain their definition of comorbidity includes hypertension, any form of diabetes, obesity defined by BMI definition, reapiratory issues, or any form of cardiac disease or issue.
That's like saying the majority of car accidents involve Toyotas, Hondas, GM or Fords. That's not the dominant factor, it's just a core part of the demographic.
A very large percentage all of the US population over 40 has one of the "comorbidities". Yet had a long productive lives ahead of them. My bet is that 50-60% of the people on m4 who are over 40 have one of those comorbidities.
We didn't know what the death rate on this was going to be. And the countries in the leading edge had a really bad experience. That is undeniable. If COVID-19 had a death rate anywhere near what some of the other viruses in the last few decades it would have been a very bad thing.