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The important question is not whether any states are
Posted on: July 10, 2020 at 19:21:04 CT
JeffB MU
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experiencing an increase in COVID cases, but whether it is overwhelming their medical systems.
Keeping our states and our country in lockdown forever is not an option. The number of people losing businesses, jobs, homes, apartments, etc. have played a huge role in a surge in suicides, drug overdoses, and alcoholism. All those people with nothing to do undoubtedly contributes to the number of people involved in riots around the country.
Our country has also spent trillions trying to counteract the financial devastation of shutting the country down.
People have to come out of their holes sometime.
Sweden never shut down and never overwhelmed their medical care system. That was the purported goal for shutting the country down. But the "experts" continue to move the goal posts.
Now Sweden's number of new deaths per day has plummeted. New deaths per day are in the single digits. The US already peaked and has dropped. Even now, despite all of the freaking out about a surge in new cases, mostly in areas that had far less exposure than average early on in the epidemic, the US death rate is less than half of what it was at the peak and we are far below maxing out our medical care capacity.
Look at the graphs (you have to scroll down) for new deaths in Sweden. That is the metric that counts:
Sweden https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/sweden/
Texas seems to be a state everyone is freaking out about. They have very few cases relative to the rest of the country early on, but now they are paying the price. (Do you remember the old commercial, "You can pay me now, or you can pay me later."?) They are just catching up to the rest of the country.
BUT they still are not maxing out their health care system. Look at the charts:
https://covid19.healthdata.org/united-states-of-america/texas
Scroll down to the chart: Hospital resource use
Then click on the tabs for hospital beds or ICU beds. They aren't even anywhere near even half capacity.
28,634 beds available
1,942 beds needed
2,260 ICU beds available
530 beds needed
They don't list how many ventilators are available, but I think they are using them a lot less now than they initially were and they have tons of excess of those now around the country anyway because they went into overdrive producing them.
Keeping our states and our country in lockdown forever is not an option. The number of people losing businesses, jobs, homes, apartments, etc. have played a huge role in a surge in suicides, drug overdoses, and alcoholism. All those people with nothing to do undoubtedly contributes to the number of people involved in riots around the country.
Our country has also spent trillions trying to counteract the financial devastation of shutting the country down.
People have to come out of their holes sometime.
Sweden never shut down and never overwhelmed their medical care system. That was the purported goal for shutting the country down. But the "experts" continue to move the goal posts.
Now Sweden's number of new deaths per day has plummeted. New deaths per day are in the single digits. The US already peaked and has dropped. Even now, despite all of the freaking out about a surge in new cases, mostly in areas that had far less exposure than average early on in the epidemic, the US death rate is less than half of what it was at the peak and we are far below maxing out our medical care capacity.
Look at the graphs (you have to scroll down) for new deaths in Sweden. That is the metric that counts:
Sweden https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/sweden/
Texas seems to be a state everyone is freaking out about. They have very few cases relative to the rest of the country early on, but now they are paying the price. (Do you remember the old commercial, "You can pay me now, or you can pay me later."?) They are just catching up to the rest of the country.
BUT they still are not maxing out their health care system. Look at the charts:
https://covid19.healthdata.org/united-states-of-america/texas
Scroll down to the chart: Hospital resource use
Then click on the tabs for hospital beds or ICU beds. They aren't even anywhere near even half capacity.
28,634 beds available
1,942 beds needed
2,260 ICU beds available
530 beds needed
They don't list how many ventilators are available, but I think they are using them a lot less now than they initially were and they have tons of excess of those now around the country anyway because they went into overdrive producing them.
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The important question is not whether any states are - JeffB MU - 7/10 19:21:04RE: Remember when idiots , like you said fire can't melt ste - Ragnar Danneskjold MU - 7/10 18:26:18