| Comment | Short memories.
You can look at Lombardia, New York, Rome, Madrid and central London in the first month of the pandemic as examples of the "what if".
Infection was able to spread before lockdown controls came in. The result was hospital beds in those areas being literally filled with Covid patients needing emergency respiratory care, over the course of mere days. Doctors and nurses then began being sick (and taken out of rotation for a week or longer at a time) meaning treatment could not be provided.
The result was thousands of people dying in hospitals. Not because the treatment didn't exist (intensive respiratory care), but because there was *not enough capacity* to treat everyone who needed it. This seems to be what people can't understand.
Remember the images of hospital wards and corridors in those places, filled with people in body bags? The mass graves in public parks, because there were more bodies than the authorities could deal with?
That's why lockdowns were necessary. |
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