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> And "healthcare system would rapidly collapse." Makes no sense. You mean our hospitals would be full for a few months. It's not like the healthcare industry would be destroyed.

I would like to remind you of the situation in northern Italy in february. People suffocating in hospitals on chairs in the corridor, because there was no one to look after them and no beds for them to lay down. And that was not because the doctors were absent, it was because they were overwhelmed by the amount of sick people.

Perhaps you prefer an US example, I'd say it is sign of a collapsing health care system, if they have so many deaths, that they don't know were to put the bodies. That happened in New York City, not some rural place with too few hospitals.

[collyw]

That region gets overwhelmed at flu season every year apparently.

And just for some perspective the flu season was filling hospitals in the US a couple of years ago. But it barely made the news.

https://time.com/5107984/hospitals-handling-burden-flu-patie...

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But did it also fill the morgues?

And the linked article isn't about north Italy. From where do you have the information that north Italian are regularly collapsing, because of the seasonal flu? Full hospitals are not the same as hospitals out of space to keep patients and bodies. Have a look at this impression https://news.sky.com/story/coronavirus-they-call-it-the-apoc...

[collyw]

Quick better move the goalposts.

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What do you mean? Do you think I moved the goal posts?