The thing is, if we over react and do too much we'll never know. But we will DEFINITELY know if we do too little.
Also, while the virus itself isn't super, super serious the rate at which it's spreading is. Normal flu we already have immunity to year after year. COVID we have none so when it hits someone they get it pretty much always. And it's moving through the nation very quickly. This is a problem because of how many hospital beds are in your city.
Idk about you but we have 2 major hospitals in our city and one lesser one, with nationally award winning facilities at two. The bigger of these two has 64 beds total for respiratory ICU, which many COVID patients need.
64 is not a big number. If we assume the two smaller hospitals have equal numbers (they don't, it's much less) that's 192 beds for the whole city. My city is 385,000 people, not including local suburbs which these hospitals also serve. If even .01% of those in-city people need beds in the next month that's 3850 people. Our hospitals can't handle that many people. If they fill every bed once a week then 3000 people still need beds. And research suggests the rate at which people need respiratory ICU is over 1.5% on average. Much higher than the numbers I'm presenting here.
The only thing we can do is slow it down, which is why the reaction is extreme. Like the run on TP and food supplies? If we have that kind of run on hospitals the fatality rate is gonna be WAY higher than it needs to be.
So... I'd like us to all over-react as needed.
there's a lot of people selling eggs around town, I saw sign for $6 a dozen....which is pretty steep.
about $5 - $7
