Why what’sExcept for mumps. Mumps is weird.
actually, only 0.01% if healthcare is available.Measles and polio is a lot worse than covid tho; for a 0.01% mortality rate has their ever been a rushed vaccine for ? I don’t believe so
Problem being is covid spreads so fast and our healthcare is only built to take on average capacity, it would get overwealmed and a much higher percentage may have died. I use a figure of 5%, I’d bet it’s likely not too far off. Now where everyone got scared was sometimes even healthy young people need hospital care, just like they sometimes do with the flu, so with an overwealmed healthcare system the doctors would have to choose, now if all was fair they would choose the old frail person, but what if none were in the hospital at the time?
What I put above is likely the reality of the situation and why they freaked out with the original lockdowns. No way it would have been close to an extinction event, like the media likes to scream about.
Anyhow in hindsight, and what they should be doing now, is a measured approach. See the death of the economy and mental health aspect could contribute to 3% deathrate, then another 2% from Covid and we are at the 5% if we let it rip. Thing is which would have the longer lasting effects, the immediate death in a year of 5% or the long term effects of what has happened to our economy, health and massive government debt?
Where things have gone sideways is the overreaction now, where for some reason they believe we shouldn’t have one death, one is too many. So the restrictions are going to cause more damage than covid would have IMO.
I believe we only needed to keep under the curve, suggested everyone take the vaccine, without the guilt tactics, or the flip flopping and lying, and things would have gone a lot smoother.