U.S. field hospitals stand down, most without treating any Covid-19 patients

Re:U.S. field hospitals stand down, most without treating an... by evultrole on Friday May 08, 2020 @12:35PM (#23116615)

We literally have to talk about goals as they come up. It's not that complicated. It makes no sense to keep saying "flatten the curve" as a goal once we achieve that goal, and it makes no sense to say "wait for it to burn out" during a period of skyrocketing growth.

Once we get over the exponential growth, we then have to wait for it to drop. Otherwise we'd just go right back to exponential growth.

All you people acting like "oh, the curve flattened, now we can go back to normal" are the kind of people that caused three massive spikes in the 1918 flu.

We're very likely to have a second spike that is way worse than the first because of this attitude.

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Re:U.S. field hospitals stand down, most without treating an... by jsight on Friday May 08, 2020 @12:56PM (#23116856)

Literally noone is saying "go back to normal". If the goal was to get it to burn out, the initial statement should have been "we need to isolate until it burns out".

That was not the initial sell to the public.

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