Re:The fraying of the U.S. global currency reserve system
by ldng on Monday December 14, 2020 @07:43AM
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That is not the point and never was ! When your hospital is saturated by people that ultimately will survive but need 3 to 4 weeks to recover, you're going to die from anything but covid.
You're in a car crash? To bad hospital is saturated. You got 4th degree burn in a burning building? To bad hospital is saturated.
Do you realise that is the problem?
Re:The fraying of the U.S. global currency reserve system
by slaw on Monday December 14, 2020 @08:13AM
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Sweden's hospitals were never saturated despite no lockdown. Italy's hospitals are saturated every flu season.
Hospitals are saturated, because we want to keep these people alive for few more months. Younger people don't need hospitalization.
You are in car crash, too bad hospitals are only admitting people with covid. This is current situation in Poland.
Re:The fraying of the U.S. global currency reserve system
by ldng on Monday December 14, 2020 @10:23AM
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Sweden did not need lockdown because, like Asia, people there were more disciplined. Numbers show road traffic dropped significantly during the first semester : people stayed home without being ordered to. Some culture will never do that by themselves.
Youngers are less affected but some absolutely do need hospitalization. Reality is not as black or white as you're making it.
The situation is like that in Poland ... and the solution is geronticide ?
'The observed temporary excess mortality likely arises because people in vulnerable groups die weeks or months earlier than they would otherwise, due to the timing and severity of the unusual external event.' https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.11.11.20229708v...