Originally Posted by
Sunfish
There is a video on SBS news tonight showing what breakdown looks like in a modern South African hospital. The staff have fled. Bloody rubbish in untended wards. Rats drinking blood on the floor. Overflowing toilets.
That is not because of the lethality of the virus, on that we are agreed.
It is because of the logistics of medical response to sick people - the logistics failed.
That same thing will happen in Australia if we listen to idiots wanting to open up for business.
‘If that happens now, you are in a drag race between the ability to provide medical care and the number of cases. We will lose that race until we have a vaccine.
‘’Take America - 3 million cases, 130,000 dead. Probably five times that many hospitalized, say1.3 million.
Now America is 300 million people. Extrapolate conservatively. 60 million cases. 25000000 dead and 26 million needing medical care. No system can handle those numbers.
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I have to agree with Sunfish