Some people have a hard time recognizing that their health system was designed for regular health care. There are only so many ICU beds available and once they're full the next person who needs one - because of covid, a heart attack, a car accident, whatever - is probably going to die.
And then of course there are the people who need regular hospital care - heart stuff, cancer stuff, all the way down to varicose veins - and aren't getting it because their hospital is plugged with covid patients.
The point being that the vaccines have a good track record of keeping covid victims out of the hospital, so maybe regular health care can get some attention too.
Are they 100% perfect, guaranteed to grant everyone perfect immunity? Of course not. Are the odds of staying healthy better? Yes, so far.
Are they guaranteed to never cause anyone any trouble? Nope. Welcome to a global pandemic folks. People who like life to be black and white are gonna have a hard time.
When the virus gets ahead of the containment measures the morgues overflow and the bodies are stacked in rented reefer trailers. Those bodies are parents, grandparents, and all ages with health issues.
You are perfectly within your rights to be OK with this.
Viruses are simple things and they mutate easily. There have been dozens of these covid variants since covid first appeared. but most are not a great threat. They mutate better in unvaccinated people. The more unvaccinated people there are the greater the chance they will produce a truly terrible variant.
Already we've seen that the alpha and delta variants are more transmissible than the original virus but the current vaccines are pretty effective against them. The newest variant to be concerned about is the lambda. They are still working out exactly how transmissible and how deadly it is, and how effective the current vaccines are against it.
You are perfectly free to ignore this too. You don't have to listen to anyone you don't want to. You can believe all those experts are lying to you.
In Canada there was some limited use of additional refrigeration space, but this wasn't I believe due to excess mortality from covid, rather delaying how bodies are handled due to covid restrictions.
As for the USA, well it's interesting how the media hyped "overflowing" morgues and blamed it all on Trump, yet here's an interesting article published by the NYT just before the "pandemic" began:
Many countries haven't seen significantly higher mortality rates, some countries like Sweden which had fewer restrictions fared better than those that imposed harsher restrictions.
In Canada there was some limited use of additional refrigeration space
Yes, Canada, where public health measures were implemented earlier than some other places in the world.
article published by the NYT
I don't have a New York Times account, so I can't read the article. Can you cut and paste the parts where it talks about storing bodies in refrigerated trailers?
Meanwhile, here's a twitter post from the NYT illustrating the increase in deaths when the virus gets ahead of the public health measures. Note the spike in deaths a couple of months after the article you referenced.
(https://twitter.com/i/events/1255503813345267714?lang=en)
I accept that the hit to the economy has been brutal, and I wish it was as easy to illustrate as the medical outcomes. It's a global pandemic. Everybody hurts.
I know. You look up in the sky and you see right away that both the sun and the moon go around the earth. It's as plain as the nose on your face. You don't need no fuckin' scientist to tell you that's not how it works. You're not that dumb.
Some people have a hard time recognizing that their health system was designed for regular health care. There are only so many ICU beds available and once they're full the next person who needs one - because of covid, a heart attack, a car accident, whatever - is probably going to die.
And then of course there are the people who need regular hospital care - heart stuff, cancer stuff, all the way down to varicose veins - and aren't getting it because their hospital is plugged with covid patients.
The point being that the vaccines have a good track record of keeping covid victims out of the hospital, so maybe regular health care can get some attention too.
Are they 100% perfect, guaranteed to grant everyone perfect immunity? Of course not. Are the odds of staying healthy better? Yes, so far.
Are they guaranteed to never cause anyone any trouble? Nope. Welcome to a global pandemic folks. People who like life to be black and white are gonna have a hard time.
Giving a vaccine to everyone for something that represents 4% of all deaths is laughable.
When the virus gets ahead of the containment measures the morgues overflow and the bodies are stacked in rented reefer trailers. Those bodies are parents, grandparents, and all ages with health issues.
You are perfectly within your rights to be OK with this.
Viruses are simple things and they mutate easily. There have been dozens of these covid variants since covid first appeared. but most are not a great threat. They mutate better in unvaccinated people. The more unvaccinated people there are the greater the chance they will produce a truly terrible variant.
Already we've seen that the alpha and delta variants are more transmissible than the original virus but the current vaccines are pretty effective against them. The newest variant to be concerned about is the lambda. They are still working out exactly how transmissible and how deadly it is, and how effective the current vaccines are against it.
You are perfectly free to ignore this too. You don't have to listen to anyone you don't want to. You can believe all those experts are lying to you.
In Canada there was some limited use of additional refrigeration space, but this wasn't I believe due to excess mortality from covid, rather delaying how bodies are handled due to covid restrictions.
As for the USA, well it's interesting how the media hyped "overflowing" morgues and blamed it all on Trump, yet here's an interesting article published by the NYT just before the "pandemic" began:
"Piled Bodies, Overflowing Morgues: Inside America’s Autopsy Crisis" https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/25/magazine/piled-bodies-overflowing-morgues-inside-americas-autopsy-crisis.html
Many countries haven't seen significantly higher mortality rates, some countries like Sweden which had fewer restrictions fared better than those that imposed harsher restrictions.
Yes, Canada, where public health measures were implemented earlier than some other places in the world.
I don't have a New York Times account, so I can't read the article. Can you cut and paste the parts where it talks about storing bodies in refrigerated trailers?
Meanwhile, here's a twitter post from the NYT illustrating the increase in deaths when the virus gets ahead of the public health measures. Note the spike in deaths a couple of months after the article you referenced. (https://twitter.com/i/events/1255503813345267714?lang=en)
Where the fatality rate from covid is more than twice as high as Canada's. Canada's fatality rate is 37% of the States', and Sweden's is 77%. (https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/#countries)
I accept that the hit to the economy has been brutal, and I wish it was as easy to illustrate as the medical outcomes. It's a global pandemic. Everybody hurts.
I know. You look up in the sky and you see right away that both the sun and the moon go around the earth. It's as plain as the nose on your face. You don't need no fuckin' scientist to tell you that's not how it works. You're not that dumb.
https://www.macleans.ca/society/health/icus-in-alberta-are-drowning-say-doctors-ive-never-had-this-happen-in-all-my-years-of-practice/
Dream on. I've been in two cities where covid victims are shipped out of town because there's no room for them in the local hospitals.
It's the voices in your head that are lying to you, not me.
https://lfpress.com/news/local-news/london-hospitals-covid-19-inpatient-count-hits-record-high
https://www.forbes.com/sites/howardgleckman/2020/03/31/states-are-beginning-to-move-covid-19-patients-from-hospitals-to-nursing-facilities/?sh=2dc6b6b54401
https://www.toronto.com/news-story/10375406--these-patients-are-super-sick-hundreds-of-covid-19-patients-transferred-to-other-hospitals-to-free-up-space-in-overburdened-icus/
https://globalnews.ca/news/7876938/manitoba-transfers-2-covid-19-icu-patients-to-ontario-due-to-extreme-strain-on-resources/
https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/the-system-is-teetering-critically-ill-covid-patients-moved-out-of-toronto-hospitals-to-open-up-beds
https://theconversation.com/why-ontario-had-to-transfer-thousands-of-toronto-covid-19-patients-to-other-cities-hospitals-160109
https://toronto.ctvnews.ca/ontario-to-move-patients-from-hospitals-to-long-term-care-without-their-consent-due-to-covid-19-third-wave-1.5405366
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ontario-hospitals-patient-transfers-unprecedented-number-covid-19-pandemic-1.5995499