And Texas Caves In
The last bastion of sanity has jumped on the "stay at home" bandwagon. They just sent me an email that they have closed all state parks to save the 1% who may die from the dreaded super virus. Texas...
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JaxDad wrote:DallasSteve wrote:
The last bastion of sanity has jumped on the "stay at home" bandwagon. They just sent me an email that they have closed all state parks to save the 1% who may die from the dreaded super virus. Texas was once a great state.
Except even with some pretty drastic containment measures New York is at nearly 4% fatality rate.
Lots of people are missing the point of the term “flatten the curve”. Unlike ‘traditional’ strains of flu this one spreads fast.
To put it in perspective, New York is saying it needs as many as 37,000 critical care beds in order to deal with this.
It has 3,000 critical care beds right now.
Who gets to decide which 8% of the patients get a hospital bed?
A little harsh, but a Dr. friend of mine calls it the “Darwin Disease”, the smart folks will stay isolated and healthy, the stupid ones will not.
The ole saying " you can't fix stupid ".
It's more about carelessness and the lack of empathy I believe.
We all do what's being asked, this thing blows over in a much more reasonable time line.
