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Originally Posted by petegz28
The critical rate in the US right and has been <1%. Now that is separate from the mortality rate as it only includes active cases, obviously.
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Statistically it's spent most of this at zero, to be completely fair.
But yeah, it's been low. And man that's been huge because it's built such a nice buffer. And I hope beyond hope that it remains low and that people focus on THAT instead of the overall numbers.
That's why I made my little 'revs vs. speedometer' quip that I thought was clever and nobody else seemingly did.
Look - mash the gas pedal and you'll get to 55 before the engine blows. But hey, keep working your way through the tree and you'll keep those revs down while the speedometer climbs. And yeah folks - this speedometer is gonna climb. Probably quickly. But the critical case rate is our transmission here guys. If we can just keep that thing manageable. Even as the raw numbers increase, they'll increase cases and probably worsen outcomes, but so long as THAT rate doesn't explode, we can respond to it. We have an army of traveling nurses in this country. We have an...Army. We have an infrastructure and technology base that sure as shit seems suggest phenomenal surge capacity.
Fellas, we have manifest ****ing destiny and the Louisiana purchase. We do have geography on our side and distance buys time. Loads of it. It should allow us to concentrate efforts and rally 'reserve troops' to areas of greater need as they arrive.
Yeah, I know its hopeful and I know it may just be pie in the sky horseshit from someone who's been a bit of a lifelong flag-waiver. But dammit I refuse to believe we can't deal with this and deal with it well. This country doesn't back down from fights and we never understand just how exceptional we are until we have to prove it. Here's hoping that well isn't dry...