Coronavirus (COVID-19) Discussion Thread

[SvennoJ]

I also have no clue what you're trying to get at. People (still) die from Covid-19 and its complications despite the extraordinary measures. Those measures also help prevent other diseases and accidents, lowering the base death rate, which gets filled back up with Covid-19 deaths. For some countries anyway, look at Russia and deaths are rising again in lock step with cases.

The reasons for the early spike is simple, it was a new thing, unknown disease, unknown how it spread, unknown how infectious it really was, unknown who was most at risk. Guomo did not force covid patients into nursing homes, at least not directly. A smililar thing did not happen in Italy. Covid-19 escalated there because it hit there first, Italy has one of the oldest populations and thus most vulnerable plus culturally families are closely knit together in Italy. In fact when schools closed, grand parents jumped in to look after the kids while the parents still worked, escalating the problem.

Thanks to all the current measures and extra protection for the elderly the death rate atm is much lower than it would be without. You can't say CFR is comparable to the flu since the current sample is heavily biased to those that have a much better chance at surviving. The at risk population is staying out of the way, but how long can they stay safe while cases keep rising all around.