SvennoJ said:
Pyro as Bill said:
What we need is a bit of German efficiency. Everyone under 20 could be "inoculated" tomorrow with a minimal effect on the health service and it would result in a quarter of the population being immune. Even if it's temporary, surely that's better than nothing. Follow up with infecting half the 20-40yr olds a few days later and the other half a week after that and half the population will have immunity and would/could be safe to interact with the over 70s.
Ventilators. What's their fucking deal? I don't get what's so hard about them? They push oxygen enriched air in then suck it out. I get that the machines are pretty sophisticated but surely whatever is going on with them tubes can be replicated easily enough without all the electronics.
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The logistics and morality of that is beyond that of a dictatorship. First you would need to separate all the under 20 from the rest of the population for 2 to 3 weeks. Then you still make a lot of them seriously ill and kill 1 in 500. Under 50 doesn't mean you're fine, just much less at risk. But 'only' selecting the healthy could further mitigate that problem. Never mind replicating the virus in enough quantity in a safe manner to infect that many people quickly.
Then, we don't know anything yet about long lasting effects. If immunity really works with this, whether you can't spread it on anyway despite your body now being able to deal with it better.
Ventilators, what's their big deal?
It's not just sticking a tube down your throat to push air in and out. Plus the reason for the ventilators is to combat the complications of double pneumonia and inflamation of the lungs to the point lung tissue cannot absorb any oxygen anymore for which you need an ECMO machine.
Then you need trained personal to make sense of all of this while keeping the patient alive with the right combination of meds and oxygenation in a sterile quarantined evironment.
If it was simple we could all stock up on ogygen tanks to get through this 'flu'
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I meant this. I get that trained professionals are more important but if each country has a different peak, it's a lot easier to get medics in and out than ship ventilators from hospital A to hospital B.
The kids can have a school camping trip and the 18-30s can be offered a free ticket to a giant pox party music festival and make their own decision. What's the alternative? House arrest until a vaccine comes along seems a lot more dictatorial.
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