pre pandemic we only had 300,000 open hospital beds in the US of all kinds, including ones that are useless in this pandemic such as neonatal ICU, drug rehab, psych, etc.
300,000 divided by .05 is 6,000,000
meaning that, at that rate, 6,000,000 people getting COVID at the same time means all those beds are full.
6,000,000 divided by 330,000,000 equals 1.8%
So all it takes to completely overwhelm the health care system is about 1.5% of the population getting a highly contagious disease at once.
You.
Stupid.
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