>Can someone explain what flattening the curve is actually for?
Ireland's ICU facilities can deal with just 411 patients at a time.
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Flattening the curve?
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Angel Price
It's nonsensical. I'm American btw, don't let the flag fool ya
Jayden Fisher
>No, we were told it was to keep from overwhelming the capacity of the medical system.
Wrong. It serves both purposes.
>There can never be a vaccine because even after developing antibodies you can still get re-infected. We've been told this repeatedly.
Wrong.
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>Good! Drive the numbers up! We have empty hospitals right now with dumb bitches making TicTok dance videos.
Not in Spain, Italy and France. Due to the virus initially spreading in an exponential phase your hospital system can be overwhelmed within days.
>Since 80-90% of us are going to get the virus, we need to fill them to capacity and work through this.
The problem is that the margin is very thin. Even in Germany, where we have more ICU beds than plenty of other countries, we'll have a hard time managing. Keeping hospitals at capacity would be ideal but for the German case this means keeping the reproductive number above 1 but below 1.2. For countries with lower capacities this margin is even thinner.
Jaxon Jackson
Is there any evidence that people died because hospitals were turning them away? You're getting your narratives all tangled up and, I'll re-state, not making any sense Hans.
You're saying the US or Russia should stay locked down because Italy was overwhelmed for its hospital capacity. 1. We've seen no evidence of that, and 2. US/etc isn't Italy.
And your graphs are so irrelevant as to be gish-gollop.
I'm beginning to think Hitler missed a few..
Elijah Watson
>Is flattening the curve just to make sure the hospitals don't overflow?
Yes.
But they are moving the goalposts continuously.