Yeah my family has gone COVID crazy and it's driving me nuts. The irony of all this is that I was the one who was going crazy about COVID first when I saw what was going on in Milan in March. I follow the statistics closer than anyone in my family. I have the Excel spreadsheets to prove it. I used to day trade a lot, I invested in crypto before it became mainstream, I used to bet on sports, used to play poker so I am really into statistics, data, probability, etc.
And I pushed back very strongly against people who said it was just a flu bro. The flu has never led to Northern Italy hospitals running out of ICU beds and ventilators since the Spanish Flu. I was angry at people who downplayed the severity of the virus. And I don't believe the Italian government fabricated the footage in the hospitals and the rows upon rows of coffins. I'm not a conspiracy theorist. And yes it is a bad thing to run out of hospital beds, especially ICU beds. Ventilators we now know are kind of like a meme. I guess they are sometimes necessary but I think it's clear now that ventilators were over-used in the spring. Hospitals are putting people on ventilators less often now and surprise, surprise, people are dying less. Science is constantly evolving. And for some reason, after many decades of treating respiratory illness like influenza and other coronaviruses, the scientists didn't realize until now that ventilators were fucking killing motherfuckas.
Thing is within the past 5+ months things have went from "let's not become Milan guise to we need to have 0 cases until there's a vaccine." And then when there's a vaccine, people will bitch that it's not 100%.
Yeah my family has gone COVID crazy and it's driving me nuts. The irony of all this is that I was the one who was going crazy about COVID first when I saw what was going on in Milan in March. I follow the statistics closer than anyone in my family. I have the Excel spreadsheets to prove it. I used to day trade a lot, I invested in crypto before it became mainstream, I used to bet on sports, used to play poker so I am really into statistics, data, probability, etc.
And I pushed back very strongly against people who said it was just a flu bro. The flu has never led to Northern Italy hospitals running out of ICU beds and ventilators since the Spanish Flu. I was angry at people who downplayed the severity of the virus. And I don't believe the Italian government fabricated the footage in the hospitals and the rows upon rows of coffins. I'm not a conspiracy theorist. And yes it is a bad thing to run out of hospital beds, especially ICU beds. Ventilators we now know are kind of like a meme. I guess they are sometimes necessary but I think it's clear now that ventilators were over-used in the spring. Hospitals are putting people on ventilators less often now and surprise, surprise, people are dying less. Science is constantly evolving. And for some reason, after many decades of treating respiratory illness like influenza and other coronaviruses, the scientists didn't realize until now that ventilators were fucking killing motherfuckas.
Thing is within the past 5+ months things have went from "let's not become Milan guise to we need to have 0 cases until there's a vaccine." And then when there's a vaccine, people will bitch that it's not 100%.