[alexandercrohde]

It's amazing how many people copy-paste knowledge without doing the most basic logical checks on it.

For example, nobody yet explained to me how flattening the curve is gonna make much difference when say NYC has 3,000 ventilators, and the average time on a ventilator is 20 days. If 1/100 of NYC's 8 million population need a ventilator that'd still be 80,000 ventilators needed.

So flattening would reduce the deaths to 74,000 instead of 77,000?

[To be clear I'm not saying this math is exact. But I am saying I am owed the actual math by people who want me to change my life over it]

[patall]

8.000.000 by 100 is 80.000.

And if the governor is able to somehow organize another 30000 ventilators in 3 weeks, your death count goes down from 77k to 44k. Or 11 times 9/11.

[SpicyLemonZest]

The improvement isn't quite that high, because people sick enough to need a ventilator are often going to die even if they get one, but I agree with your point that increasing medical capacity is the high-leverage play here.

[chiefalchemist]

What are you saying was copy and pasted? I'm suggesting what you're suggesting: better details, not aggregates that are meaningless.