Re:Detroit to restore water to allow people to wash hands to...
by AstralStorm on Tuesday March 10, 2020 @10:26AM
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Recovery takes too long for such preventative measures to matter at all. It increases the delay but does not reduce load.
The hospitals explode almost immediately with medium to hard cases.
(We know thanks to Chinese data that recovery can easily be a month for harder cases. We know how fast medical systems get overwhelmed, and how much overcapacity would be necessary.)
Re:Detroit to restore water to allow people to wash hands to...
by lm28469 on Tuesday March 10, 2020 @10:40AM
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Well, we'll see how it develops, it's too early to tell but it'll be easy to compare France/Italy to the US.
Re:Detroit to restore water to allow people to wash hands to...
by bequestry on Tuesday March 10, 2020 @10:20AM
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Not op but want to comment on how similar the situation is to something ycombinator folks might have more experience with: its essentially a DDOS attack, because the time it takes to scale resources to meet demand is longer than the rate of growth of requests.
The whole point of slowing down (or stopping) movements is to slow down the spread enough to let hospitals handle as few sick people at once as possible. Western europeans countries have very good health systems as long as they're not overcrowded. It really isn't rocket science. If you have 2000 beds and 6000 sick people you're fucked, if you have the same amount of beds and a continuous flow of low amount of sick people spread over weeks or months it's just a bit worse than business as usual.
It's not panicking, it's taking steps to ensure the virus doesn't get more serious than it is.