Originally Posted by
Trip7
Sure it's not that deadly for younger folks, but it is bad enough to overwhelm the health system. When that happens deaths from those that are not elderly will start to spike. We're in a race to get people vaccinated because the virus has already mutated to a much more contagious version. It will start to spike US cases in 3 to 4 weeks becoming the dominant strain here. Hopefully it doesn't mutate further and gain ability to evade the vaccine. The more it spreads the more chances it has to mutate.
At the end of the day this is a story of compassion for your fellow human beings and saving lives. Take that out of the plan and this becomes a genetic lottery of "The Strongest Survive" similar to how the Spanish flu epidemic ended because those infected either became immune or died.
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In open states it hasn’t come close yet to overwhelming the health system. And if you plot the states next to each other you couldn’t differentiate which states are open and which have absurd policies implemented. Total US hospitalizations were under 2019 levels and didn’t even get close on a daily basis until the end of the year. We’re in our seasonal spike right now. Total hospitalizations will come back down although there will still be “covid hospitalization” spikes due to our absurd use of PCR testing.