[cgbg]

Robert:

I buy the 1.3% death rate on one condition—the health care system has to be in excellent shape.

What makes this disease so dangerous is that it can rapidly overwhelm the health care system (northern Italy, for example) and then the death rate skyrockets.

In addition, once the health care system crashes and burns, people start dying of hundreds of conditions that used to be curable...

[Robert DeLong]

Well there is that concern and it is why you have not seen me gripe about the distancing and stay at home edicts being issued.

But you cannot look to Italy and make assumptions regarding our healthcare structure. There are several major differences. First off they have a single payer system. To make that have any chance of succeeding they have to cut costs. Hospitals and staff become less available. Their outbreak was localized to heavily populated areas in the North, while the South had very few cases. I don't know if this is still the case or not.Italy has a population median that is almost 10 years higher than our median. They have customs that see a lot more touching and kisses shared with each other, than we as a nation practice. Italians smoke more than do Americans now. But I think the biggest issues are the ones I mentioned first, single payer health system, less facilities, fewer doctors meant the system reached overload capacity much sooner than we would

But like I said it is a concern and something to watch carefully.

[LilFarmer]

Don’t feed the trolls, lol

[Varsity Flight]

It’s much more insidious than that. When the health “care” system, itself becomes a/the vector. Inside outward