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Originally Posted by Lisnaholic
To me, this is in many ways the scariest category to fall into. Who amongst us could endure or afford five months in an ICU?
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Rostasi's stats paint a truer picture of the situation than yours, Anteater. By simultaneously focusing on and reducing the number of deaths, you are making a couple of mistakes that are common among anti-vaxers:-
i) ignoring the idea Frownland just mentioned about free-circulating covid cooking up its next mutation.
ii) ignoring all the collateral health problems that are caused because ICU beds are full of covid patients. The shear number of hospitalizations that happen all at once during a covid surge guarantees that there will be preventable deaths from other causes that won't register in your dismissive "one death" total.
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I can attest to the collateral. I went to the ER with heart problems and I waited four hours until I could get a room. I could have dropped dead in the waiting room and no one would have noticed.
PS- They automatically give you a Covid test when you're in the hospital now. You'll be glad to know I don't have Covid (or at least I didn't yesterday)