re: The Choice (Non Political, Please)

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If we open it up too soon some old people might die

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My wife is an ICU nurse and its not all old people in there. at least half the covid patietnts are in their 40s and 50s and people in their mid to late 30s aren't exactly rare.

And no not all of them have preexisting conditions.

I am not saying that we need to keep everything shut down completely or forever but people acing like this is a nothing burger are being willfully ignorant.

Ochsner in New Orleans has opened up 102 new ICU beds for this covid outbreak and they are still working on creating more because thats how many people are ending up in the ICUs. These beds are filling up while we are practicing social distancing, opening things up runs the risk of the hospitals not being able to keep up.

Right now the death rate is like .5% or whatever it is but that is because the hospitals can take care of everyone at the moment. If they get overrun like Italy, the death rate will be much higher. Not to mention all the deaths that will be indirectly caused by this due to there being no ICU space for strokes and heart attacks and every other every day cause for hospitalization.

I get the economy is a worry but right now the stock market is climbing every day despite things remaining the same socially.

When they do open things back up, they need to still have regulations such as tables in restaurants need to be 6 feet apart and completely disinfected between parties. Not to mention if they just open things back up all at once with no regulations then they caused the economy to drop, caused unemployment to rise AND failed to keep the hospitals from being overrun.

I feel like at this point they picked their poison and they have to figure it out.