News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Ask HN: Have you been laid off?. Parent comment

Re:Ask HN: Have you been laid off? by Twixes on Wednesday March 18, 2020 @08:54PM (#22623215)
2-4% is huge for a novel highly infectious disease. Our healthcare system is not prepared for that at all, without aggressive measures that's potential for hundreds of thousands if not millions of deaths in the US.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Ask HN: Have you been laid off? by traitsnspecs on Thursday March 19, 2020 @02:28PM (#22630210)
Fully agreed - but I'm wondering why the solution has been less bars, not more temporary hospitals, ala China.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Ask HN: Have you been laid off? by Twixes on Thursday March 19, 2020 @09:08PM (#22633534)
Temporary hospitals are being set up, but we simply don't have the capacity to build life–saving machines fast enough to handle the no-social distancing scenario. Neither did China, really.
[ Parent | on HN ]