Quote (juliusjuice @ Nov 4 2020 12:18pm)
more total cases can result in more deaths per million because of hospitals running out of beds, also because the the more cases you have the harder to focus on individual patients.
Hospitals did not run out of beds though. Indeed, the temporary hospitals that were built virtually overnight sat unused.
Are you sure decisions by governors such as sending infected patients to nursing homes, where the highest comorbidity risk existed might not have something to do with it?
The bottom line with this cold is that those who are under the age of 40, the lethality rate is significantly lower than the flu. From 40-60, it hits flu levels. 60+ it scales up. I would argue that the best suggestion would have been rather than locking things down and crushing the economy, incentivize the elderly and highly at risk to self-quarantine, let the younger folks keep on keeping on. If/when vaccines come out, the elderly and at risk could get vaccinated, and continue life as normal. This entire thing has been a disaster. Over 100,000 small businesses closed forever, massive spikes in suicide and domestic violence, and a crippled economy.
And again, you wearing a mask doesn't protect you. It helps prevent you from spreading whatever viruses/bacteria you're carrying to others. What part of quarantining the healthy and or forcing them to wear masks is going to help the sick, exactly?