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Re:Coronavirus pandemic takes hold, we are making decisions ... by thda on Wednesday March 18, 2020 @09:22AM (#22616314)
Not true. France is hit, eastern France's hospitals are at full capacity. Doctors are starting to consider letting people over 70 die without access to an ICU.

Also, it's kind of strange that on this forum people do not get the notion of exponential increase. It's twice worst every 72 hours. Time runs out really fast.

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Re:Coronavirus pandemic takes hold, we are making decisions ... by sershe on Thursday March 19, 2020 @09:24AM (#22627211)
People totally get exponential increase. I agree it's really bad given that we have infinite population! Oh wait, we don't. The exponential increase will go on for 3-4 weeks after which there will be no more people to infect; the time in ICU is 2-3 week, there's overlap, so in say a month we will be done. Recessions last years; in case of Great Depression, a decade. Remember how Great Depression ended in Europe?
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