03-16-2020, 11:10 AM
(03-16-2020, 10:58 AM)michaelsean Wrote: No doubt people will say that, but that's not the point I was making. I'm saying what if it works too well? If it barely moves through the population, then in a few weeks you are still where you were before.
The idea is to slow it down to a rate where it moves through at a sustainable rate.
Sustainable as in: hospitals only have X amount of resources. In this instance, those resources are ventilators, the right kind of masks (my wife's hospital has already run out of masks and advised nurses just to use whatever they can find), inhalers and steroids. If the hospitals in a given area can handle 100 ventilator patients a week, then they can handle 100 ventilator patients and, like any business, are probably basing that 100 off what they normally see; if slowing the spread keeps those in need of ventilators down to 120, then they can at least prioritize and try to handle the extra 20 per week. It also gives them time to order more equipment.
It's not so much about preventing everyone from getting it, but being able to help those who need it.
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