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Originally Posted by casper
it is looking like 1% of BC has had COVID (number is likely higher). Another 1% or so has had the Vaccine. Still a long way to go.
The critical number driving all of this ICU beds in hospitals. We need to ensure capacity exists in the province to handle anyone who needs attention. That means keeping the number of active covid patients needing an ICU as low as possible.
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Yup, and the predictions by epidemiologists that the medical system would be overwhelmed were not only wrong, they were wrong by many orders of magnitude. We not only flattened the curve back in April, we annihilated it (for a while here on the island we didn't have a single case of covid) but the government only barely turned down the hysteria. Covid has barely made a dent in the number of hospital beds, right now there are 248 people hospitalized in BC with covid which is insignificant to say the least but the government is reacting to this like it's the bubonic plague. 64 of those 248 people are in critical care and when you consider that this disease is really only dangerous to the very ill and very elderly, almost all of those people would be in hospital anyway. As far as your claim that 1% of BCer's have had covid, that's wrong. 82,473 people have had it out of a population of ~5 million that's 0.0164 of the population which means that 99.99% of BCer's have never had it. The problem is that, once government got on the hysteria/panic train, they've had a very hard time getting off it in spite of all the facts. Anyone that understands bureaucracy won't be surprised though, governments don't adjust well to change even glaringly obvious change.
Once again, have a look at the numbers:
https://experience.arcgis.com/experi...9e3cda29297ded
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Originally Posted by The Great Scaper
The media lies to us. I don't trust the things I hear.
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We're not being lied to but what's happened is, the media's only reporting the stories that play into the fear/hysteria/panic narrative because they're in the business of selling fear, the more people are scared the more they'll tune into the news so it's a smart business move. The thing that pisses me off is that the government is too lazy/stupid to separate the wheat from the chaff by only providing us with the number of deaths and new cases in each health region which tells us almost nothing about how dangerous covid really is to the average British Columbian (not even slightly dangerous). Nor do they tell us what percentage of British Columbians have it. They also neglect to tell us the demographics of the victims-all vital information because it makes a pretty big difference knowing that the average covid victim is ~85 years old instead of 25. In other words, the government doesn't provide the public with a comprehensive view of what's going on thus it's hard to gauge what danger we're all in by failing to provide any context/perspective. I've also contacted the BCCDC to find out how covid compares to other diseases like the flu but they didn't have that info so it's hard to compare it to other virae.