The experts are telling us that massive numbers (25 million in California alone according to governor Newsome) will be infected and a huge percentage (a million and a half according to NIH director) will become critically ill. They are saying that this part is unstoppable. The current measures are not designed to keep you from getting the virus or getting critically ill, but to keep you from getting infected right now so that we don’t run out of ventilators. That is what flattening the curve is all about. Sorry if you didn’t understand that. It is only this level of fear that would make us willing to go along with the actions we are taking that are unprecedented in global human history.
None of us want to under-react. But over reacting is not benign, just wait and see.
Some are saying we won’t be able to tell if we are overreacting. Not true, we just look at what happens in the coming months. Compare what happens with what the experts said will certainly come to pass. We should NOT look at the death rate if it ends up being low, but at the dimensions of the epidemic that the experts say is unstoppable, the elements we can only delay.
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