When it really happens: SHTF...

[Aragorn243]

People here are starting to wonder if we've been doing all this for nothing. And I admittedly am one of them. Don't get me wrong, I think some measures needed to be taken but shutdowns for this long went way too far. Our goals from the beginning were to prevent our health care system from being overwhelmed. Believe it nor not, that did not even occur in New York city, the heaviest and hardest hit area in the nation. We kept seeing stories of health care workers being over worked, etc yet the makeshift hospitals they set up all over New York were never used. The hospital ship sent to New York harbor had a total of 29 patients and they were not Covid patients. It will be leaving New York soon if it has not already done so. Here in PA, the at the highest point we still had 70% of capacity to go.

The numbers of deaths are being called into question as well. We haven't been being told who it is that is dying. Today I learned that in our county, not a single person under the age of 50 died. four died between 50-59, thirteen between 60-69, twenty-two between 70-79, fifty-nine between 80-89, and forty-seven over 90. How many of these older people died because of Covid-19 and how many died because of something else and had Covid-19. Old age does kill people yet it's never listed as a cause of death.

If these numbers are consistent nation wide and there's no real reason to think they are not, we will have a problem when the truth gets out.

And now many states including my own have a long drawn out process for opening up. Several are just opening up without many restrictions so we'll have those to watch. It's going to be interesting.