Originally Posted by
Paul852
Given that 4-5 777s of old people die every single day in each of the UK and Italy and that many of the people on your 777 would otherwise have been on one of those 4 or 5 others then I don't see this as the such a big deal.
Most of those people don't die in an ICU.
It will be a big deal for you if you have a heart attack or are critically injured in a car crash, and there are no ICU beds to accommodate you. I live in Québec. We have an average of 11.2 ICU beds per 100k population, a middle-of-the-pack number for Western democracies. Now let's assume 10% of that population get infected, and 5% of those require ICU care (I believe that's the actual number, plus or minus). That's 10k infected people requiring 500 ICU beds. But you only have 11.
Yes, it is such a big deal.