This is not the point. It matters because if you fill up all the hospital beds with people who are not going to die, but are fighting massive multi-month battles with side-effects like organ failure, brain trauma, cytokine storms, blood clots, sudden onset dementia, amputations, guess what happens when you have a heart attack? You’re triaged. Bye. Cancer? No room in the inn. Arizona is already activating triage protocols. And oh yeah, the doctors and nurses are going to start getting sick again and some of them are going to die. This is about the complete collapse of the health care system If we don’t take this seriously.
Mortality is one measure. But it doesn’t tell the story of the strain on the entire health-care system. That’s why we were trying to flatten the curve in the first place - not to reduce the spread of the infection, but to slow it enough to ease the strain on the system. So that when you rush little Johnny to the ER because his appendix is exploding, he doesn’t die in the hallway bc there’s literally zero capacity to deal with him.
If you don’t live in fear of that, I don’t know what to tell you.
