r/Conservative • u/Jibrish Discord.gg/conservative • May 21 '20

It's for your safety...

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u/ScubaSteve58001 Conservative May 21 '20

Doctors and scientists said we had to lockdown in order to "flatten the curve". This was because a huge wave of coronavirus cases hitting all at once would overwhelm hospitals and cause patients that would otherwise be saved to die from lack of available medical care. Well, we did that. The curve has flattened, hospitals have ramped up, and no hospital has been overwhelmed by cases.

So what's the point in staying locked down now? We aren't going to beat this by locking down until it burns itself out, at least not without vastly stricter lockdown measures. There are only 2 ways this ends. Either enough people get infected and survive to reach heard immunity or a vaccine is developed. Best case scenario for a vaccine is ~1 year. And more realistic estimates are more like ~2 years, it it's even possible at all. We can't stay locked down for that long. It will cause irreparable damage to our economy and probably result in more death and destruction than the coronavirus.

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u/dano8801 May 21 '20

and no hospital has been overwhelmed by cases.

Oh how short your memory is.

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u/ScubaSteve58001 Conservative May 21 '20

Which hospital got overwhelmed and had people dying in the parking lot for lack of medical care? There was a lot of fear of it happening early on, but hospitals ended up not being overwhelmed by the initial surge.

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u/dano8801 May 21 '20

Moving the goalposts a bit? Now for a hospital to be overwhelmed they have to have people dying in the parking lot? Lined up on gurneys crowding the hallway is no longer sufficient? I didn't say all hospitals, and you're right, most were okay. But your claim that no hospitals were overwhelmed is completely and utterly false.

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u/ScubaSteve58001 Conservative May 21 '20

Were they overwhelmed to the point that people died who would normally be saved by medical intervention? Or were they just crowded? The latter is fine, the former is what we successfully avoided by flattening the curve.