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Originally Posted by dirk digler
I don't fault anybody for the early lockdowns because we knew nada about this virus and we all saw what was happening in Wuhan and Italy, then it came to NYC and we saw the same things. No one wanted their city to be like that.
Businesses definitely should have been compensated and that should still be the case.
Also everyone knew this was coming and I would say I am surprised but I am not that we still seem so ill prepared for this.
One of the new covid task forces members was on TV tonight and she said her hospital in NYC is having PPE issues again and they are hearing about this all across the country. We don't even have very good therapeutics and the ones we have there isn't enough of or don't work for those in hospitals.
It is cluster **** of epic proportion.
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Yeah I am going to disagree with the latter part of your post there. People are dying and no one wants that to happen at all. But the fact is right now we are trading deaths for hospitalization. Cases have more than doubled from the peak of wave 2 and have been there for a while. Deaths, while rising some have yet to hit the peak of wave 2. So we are treating this better but we are having to treat more of it. I hear from our system leaders that remdesivir is working and helping. We don't have people going on the ventilators like we did initially.
That doesn't mean shit isn't bad and people aren't dying. It very could be though we are seeing a mutation of the virus where it is becoming more contagious but less virulent.
If deaths stay at or below where they are with the way cases are rising it would say a lot about how far we have come in treating it. Frankly I am surprised they haven't risen more given they way cases have shot up.