On 07 Apr 2020 at 07:56a, Gerhard Strangar pondered and said...
 
 GS> Am 07 Apr 20  06:26:53 schrob Dan Cross an Gerhard Strangar zum Thema 
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 GS> DC> That's just the thing of it.  It's not just your OWN risk, is the
 GS> DC> risk of the entire community.
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 GS> If everyone needs to stay at home, there are no infections, which means
 GS> the whole thing just takes longer. Yet still, most of the people will
 GS> get it. If you allow the healthy people to get it first, they become
 GS> immune and "the community" might be more luc

...And if we let all these "adults" you speak of just do
whatever they please (and history has shown that they will)
then they overload the medical system when they all inevitably
become sick, which means that a lot of deaths that could have
been prevented aren't because there aren't enough resources
to treat them.  That's exactly what happened in Italy: the
death rate hit a major inflection point and got very steep
once hospitals ran out of capacity.

And by the way, it's not just capacity to treat COVID patients:
if the hospitals are overloaded, then they can't treat heart
attacks, or car accidents, or whatever.

"Healthy people" die from this, too.

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