2-3x the ANNUAL flu rate in 3 months.Jay wrote:
Infection rate is higher, yep. But we're looking at a mortality rate that is somewhere between 0.2 and 0.3. The more antibody testing they do, the more they see that there are millions of people that have already had it. Over 25% of NYC has had it. Over 20% of the surrounding counties and northern New Jersey have already had it. It was rough at first for the hospitals, mostly because they were unprepared with PPE, but now that the spare hospital capacity has been built up and we've seen the smaller mortality rate, we should be going back to work. 2x or 3x the normal influenza annual deaths is not nothing, but it's not the catastrophe that was predicted by institutions like Imperial College.KEN-JENNINGS wrote:
infection rate is much higher though, which means more people die. Are you sure that's what you said?Jay wrote:
Death rate is near H1N1.
We can't keep letting the most risk-averse among us drive the response. It's done real damage.
I agree - science and statistics should lead policy. It should be fairly simple - look at the spread vs. infected vs. available health resources, and open up society in phases accordingly.
What shouldn't happen is fat fucks in hunting gear and airsoft LARPING gear storming government buildings, and politicians encouraging that type of action. What shouldn't happen is people creating a false narrative that this was all just an overblown response. What shouldn't happen is people giving the federal government a pass on their terrible responses thus far.