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Originally Posted by roger1818
[rant]it’s not the mortality rate that’s scary. It’s the 8.5% hospitalization rate that’s scary. Without flattening the curve, our hospitals would be overrun. That mortality rate is with proper medical care. Then there is all the people who would die of other curable diseases and injuries because the hospitals are filled with COVID patients.[/rant] |
This.
It's not the virus itself that's dangerous (for most people), it's the unmanageable burden it would put on the healthcare system if everyone caught it at once.
I really liked the #FlattenTheCurve messaging that we saw a lot of during the first wave. It was easy for people to identify the goal of our efforts - that being keep the number of active cases low enough to remain within the healthcare system's capacity. I'm not sure why it appears as though that hashtag has disappeared during the second wave.