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Old 05-29-2020, 01:42 PM
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I think people need to remember that the goal of locking stuff down wasn't to prevent anyone from getting the virus, it was to prevent everyone getting it at once.
Just like SARS, I don't think a vaccine or cure is coming.
I also believe everyone will eventually get it. Those who will survive it will, and those who will succumb, will.
But we really needed to make sure the hospitals could help those who could be helped.
Having said that, I asked my B.I.L. (who is a fairly prominent figure in a local hospital) if the current number of cases shot up by 20x, would that overwhelm the hospitals? He said, "that would be 1,000 hospitalized and 140 in ICU. We'd deal with it fine even if there was a 30x increase."
That should put most at ease about this dreaded "second wave" that's supposedly coming. Well, except for the elderly and vulnerable, which is who we should have been focussing on this whole time it turns out.
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