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by abstractbarista 1752 days ago
That may be the target, but the real outcome is simply delaying those deaths, spreading them out more over time.
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mbesto 1752 days ago
> That may be the target, but the real outcome is simply delaying those deaths, spreading them out more over time. reply

Don't we all die eventually? What's your point then?

Are you saying that if people get COVID they'll all die of COVID related complications *eventually•? Because that's not necessarily true. If someone is the 101st person who needs a ventilator and all 100 ventilators are being used by COVID patients, then that person likely dies and they could have been recovered.

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lovegoblin 1752 days ago
> the real outcome is simply delaying those deaths, spreading them out more over time.

Which is still a good outcome, because you don't want to overwhelm the healthcare system to the point that it can't handle anything that isn't COVID.

That was the whole point of the early-pandemic "flatten the curve" campaigns.

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