drkohler on 20 March 2020
| JRPGfan said: apparently we can only have like 1400 ppl on ventilators at once. |
That's a pretty good number. Yesterday in Switzerland, 640 of the 800 available emergency beds were occupied. (Once you are on ventilators, your survival chance is pretty close to zero if we take Italy as factual data). Several young people in critical condition as well, so the idea of "let the young get infected to build a herd immunity" definitely is a bad idea. It is expected that triage might begin within a few days due to all beds occupied.
The virus is closing in on me, too. Yesterday, two plastified paramedics carried an equally plastified person out of a house just 30 meters from where I live...
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