Re: Post-Covid Brain fog
Originally Posted by
Bruce
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You are right but the important thing is to ensure that the mortality rate is suppressed by not overwhelming the hospital system and having an orderly, staged transfer to herd immunity.
As stated elsewhere the 1918 flu pandemic took something like five years to stabilise with many waves and become the annual flu until 1958 when Asian Flu took over.
The trouble with not overwhelming the hospital system is, people are waiting for surgery, others are waiting for early cancer diagnosis or cancer treatment .... others are trying to help the system in their own way by not going to their local GP ... and so there's a massive traffic jam forming.
All to protect the NHS from been overwhelmed.
It makes you wonder how things would have unfolded if, instead of propping up workers to the tune of billions of pounds that money had, instead, been pumped into expanding medical facilities to ensure they could cope better.
There is little support available for the individual who finds they have caught the virus, with the general advice been to stay at home and only seek medical aid if you can't cope.
It's not really comparable with the 1918 influenza pandemic for a few very pertinent reasons.
Over 50 million people died, ... and there was only 1.8 billion souls on the planet then. A third of the worlds population, 500 million, became infected with it . 1% to 3% of the worlds population died.
Whereas now ... just over a million have died, out of a world population of nearly 8 billion. Very small in comparison.
This is nothing compared to 1918 .... except then ordinary people weren't jetting around the world on holidays and casually spreading germs.
And in 1918 the medical profession was in it's infancy compared to todays advances and developments.
Doesn't seem to have done us much good does it.
I doubt an orderly staged transfer to herd immunity is going to be a viable option.
I imagine at some point it will be more like getting shoved out of a plane and hoping your parachute inflates before you hit the ground.
A jolly soul aren't I.