How about some math. The low percentage would be about 5% from numbers I found. No big deal.randylahey wrote: ↑Mon Aug 23, 2021 7:05 pm
Dude the virus itself doesn't affect that high of a percentage of people. We have statistical data on that. The amount of people hospitalized from covid is really low percentage wise. Always has been. You keep bringing up lockdowns mandates and stuff. Humans chose to do those. We didn't have to. They didn't stop covid. Minimally effective at best. If your argument is that the lockdowns and mandates are what is affecting everyone then you are accidentally admitting we shouldn't be having mandates
If we did not try to flatten the curve while a vaccine was developed and we just let the disease run wild that would only mean 5% of 335,000,000 people or 16,750,000 people who need to be in an ICU. And there are another 13% or 43,550,000 that would need hospitalization. Even if only half the US got it in that first year, that puts an additional 30,000,000 people into hospitals.
This country has about 925,000 hospital beds, enough to cover .27% of the population at any time.
And we have about 35,000,000 non-covid admissions in a "normal" year for those hospital beds.
It's a small percentage of a big number. Does that help you put it in perspective?