Looks like little Fluffy is too sick to eat...
Ok. Fine. Now put a million sick people on top of that.
Go into any hospital. Take a walk around. Go to the ICU. Find a free bed.
This disease puts 20% of its patients into ICU.
My area has about 400,000 people. There are about 50 ICU beds in the near 3 hospitals. As of last Friday there was not an open bed to be found within 50 miles. Not kidding.
This is not about dying. Most people won’t die.
This is about overwhelming the system. This is about destroying the economy. This is about political instability in the largest country in the world.
People have to stop thinking about getting sick from this shit. You have to think about what it does to people, places, and systems.
Stop comparing to a flu that we prepare for every year. Start thinking about what this could do to society, economy, and country.
“… Delivery of high quality effective medical care and public health solutions in China suffers from a variety of problems. One of the most challenging is low levels of human capital in health care systems. According to one study, China has only 60,000 general practitioners or one per roughly 23,000 people. By comparison, in the United States there are 1,500 people per general practitioner. If all things were equal, this would mean Beijing one of the largest cities in the world would have fewer than 1,000 general practitioners. Nor are many medical professionals well trained. In community health centers, less than one fourth of doctors have a bachelor’s degree. Even as recently as a decade ago, only 67% of Chinese doctors had only been educated up to the junior college level, hardly enough under any reasonable standard to be a highly qualified medical professional..”
Good read.
https://www.baldingsworld.com/2020/02/10/the-unspoken-problem-behind-the-coronavirus-outbreak/
Based on my limited hospital visits for internal bleeding, and strokes in the last few years, I find hospitals over crowded with patients in the halls or close to overcrowded.
It won't take much to overwhelm Hospitals if people who get the flu think they might have the corona virus and storm the hospitals. - Tom
Agreed. I’m mildly prepped. Any sites with good operational plans and supplies lists for such an event?
Looks like little Fluffy is too sick to eat...
Bingo!
What part of I’m not comparing it to the flu, don’t you understand?
I’m saying that we recently had a flu season of almost 80,000 deaths, and almost a million people hospitalized just from that.
All it does is put a little perspective on how bad things can get, and hardly anyone even notices.
I’m sure those figures stunned people.
That’s it. No comparison to the flu at all. Just the numbers.