| Comment | If the NHS is overloaded (again, the modelling suggests this would be by an order of 20 or more - 20 people requiring hospitalisation for every one that gets it) then that means no oxygen therapy for anyone that needs it, no intubation, no respirators.
Suddenly the small minority that die from CV19 becomes a much bigger minority as all the extreme cases that would have survived fine with oxygen don't receive it. People die in their beds. You go to your job, happy your economic status is preserved, literally stepping over the bodies of people who have struggled into the street to get help with breathing that doesn't exist. 300,000-500,000 die in the space of about 6 months.
I'm not overdramatising - this is literally the scenario that made the government U-turn in March from herd immunity when the science made it clear what that would entail.
When you say 'sounds harsh' please understand exactly how harsh you are being. |
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