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>the flu does not overwhelm hospitals

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

flu may not kill as much as covid or spread as fast as covid but still thousand of people die every year, so somehow that is acceptable without lockdown ?




that's a disingenuous argument because the scale and breadth of the 2018 flu season vs. what covid continues to do are not in the same league at all, by an order of magnitude (see below). there was not a global lockdown for the 2018 flu season I recall, there will not be one for a future flu season of similar magnitude, and the point remains that it's a logical fallacy to suggest the covid lockdown represents the action that would be taken for a 2018-style flu season because there is simply no comparison.

https://www.contagionlive.com/news/why-comparing-flu-covid-1...


I mentioned that flu may not kill as much as covid.

>there was not a global lockdown for the 2018 flu season

Yes, so despite that there are thousand of death due to flue and hospital overwhelmed, somehow is was acceptable to not have lockdown back then?


yes because the hospital system was not overwhelmed to the extent that it would be with an unchecked coronavirus. The nationwide overwhelming of hospitals with covid is with lockdowns and mask wearing throughout the nation. if steps had not been taken, the death toll would be approaching the millions by now, not just for covid cases but for all kinds of untreated emergencies.


Without the lockdown the the hospital system are not overwhelmed, at least no more overwhelmed than what happen in the past.

Due to lockdown the hospital are furloughing, lying off nurse, freeze hiring.

Just look at Sweden where they didn't lockdown.

Doesn't mean I say we should not take any step. Step to make vaccine still has to be done, improving treatment still have to be done, increasing health care capacity still have to be done.




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