| | | I believe I read that if you let it blow through, there would be less total people infected, because it would be so effective at killing so it would stop spread to some areas...
A contagious disease expert at U of Wash hammered out that point a long time ago, and actual said in the video attached to the tweet, I'll paraphrase -- the same number of people will get it, but the hospital system will not be overrun.
Funny how flattening the curve invoked blow-back wrath from idiots.
Hopefully, in our real future, flattening the curve will also reduce infections by allowing a vaccine to get here before the herd immunity arrives.
Flattening the curve infects more but our odds of surviving are higher overall since it won't overwhelm the health care system.
I'm not sure they are idiots as much as selfish jackasses. Perhaps they've made the choice for themselves that they only have a 0.1 or 1.0% chance of dying from this if they catch it so everyone else should accept those odds... and they don't have anyone they care enough about to feel bad about making this decision for them also.
They don't consider the PTSD and burnout of hospital workers who get overwhelmed by a "blow through" infection rate that leaves people dying in hospital corridors while they have to make decisions on who has a better chance to live to get life saving treatment.
Go slow... find some treatments that are effective, learn how the virus attacks different people and different parts of the body differently, etc... and the hospital workers can make progress, fell good about themselves and be there for us when we need them.... rather than burnt out zombies needing self medication to get to work each day...
Google says the Spanish flu infected 500M and killed 50M... it got one third of the World's population eventually and killed 10% of those it got. g.co
We're at 7.8 Billion now... a third would be over 2.5 billion.... I believe a lot of the Spanish Flu people died from large doses of aspirin wrongly used to treat the disease may have causes more deaths than necessary so hopefully today we know better what not to do... sciencedaily.com |
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