[jarfil]

The fun part about this virus is that it works on a 10 day delay, so you can either prevent infections long before it has a chance to start killing people, or you can start dealing with the epidemic once it's too late to stop it.

Also, California ICUs are at 80% capacity, so there isn't that much room left to relax unless you want them to get verwhelmed and start sending people back home to die.

[therealdrag0]

Where'd you get 80%? The site I have bookmarked shows 25% (https://covid19.healthdata.org/united-states-of-america/cali...)

[thaumaturgy]

The numbers there are funky. Best guess is that their "total available" beds are the estimated number of statewide beds that would normally be empty, and the "ICU beds needed" number is just for Covid patients.

From https://www.sacbee.com/news/local/health-and-medicine/articl... :

> About 1,178 confirmed and 374 suspected COVID-19 patients were under treatment in California’s ICUs on Tuesday, according to the latest figures from the California Department of Public Health.

> On a typical day, about 58 percent of the state’s ICU beds are occupied by patients needing treatment. Although the exact number of ICU beds currently in use was not released, the increase in COVID-19 cases suggests that about 80 percent of the ICU beds in California may now be filled.

And from https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/03/24/map-where-are-the-int... :

> In California, where the confirmed number of coronavirus cases was 2,181 on March 23, there are 7,345 ICU beds. Eleven counties have no ICU beds or no hospitals at all.