Joined: 12/28/2013
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Location: Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
Amaraticando wrote:
Look at how pretty, symmetrical, smooth and juicy those curves are.
Look at how most people died outside the hospital, where highly competent physicians saved the lucky bastards who got the intubation.
It's obviously not accurate to represent the curves as symmetrical (and indeed the most rigorous sources about the pandemic evolution never represented them that way, it was a massive simplification) - but that's not the point. The point is that at any given time the amount of people who need intensive care must not surpass the hospital capacity in that region.
Ignoring the advice to 'flatten the curve' has lead to people as young as 20yrs old to die asphyxiated without receiving proper care. They didn't die 'outside the hospital', they died inside it, but without an ICU bed and the proper tools to save the life of someone whose lungs are shutting down.
Even prior to the point where there are no ICU beds left, the too high amounts of sick people in the hospitals overloads doctors and nurses and diminishes the survival rates. This was a very significant factor around here too, so I wouldn't dismiss 'flatten the curve' as something not worth to follow.
Without offending anyone, I'm pretty sure that many countries government made both efforts and mistakes to avoid and help to the situation we are facing still today. I think I don't need to list how many people died because of their own governments false informations and encouraging them to work/pray/party despite meeting their sure death.
I don't know or at least never heard of someone ignoring this advice. However I do know of ignorant people who can't wait to go to the beach with hundreds of thousands others despite of knowing their fate in terms of health.
edit: I guess I can expand my view of covid as this is on topic in off topic lol.
So... I've used to say the current year (in 2021 !?!) whenever I hear something that only exists outside of modern technology. From the simplest things of how many steps you are required to do when completing your desired action (registering to a game store, filling in all your information, purchasing the game, downloading the game, installing a game, registering to play a game... going online on public wifi, accept terms to sell your souls before going online, find out what is the IP address of the router if they don't have the default captivity set up.... ability to register for a coronavirus vaccine, filling in all the data they should already have after using they health facilities 30+ years with paying for it but no, type in your mothers name and your name and birthdate and birthplace and favourite dessert after a hot night so in turn you get an email depicting another twenty steps on how to validate your request for the medical emergency everyone is facing) to the missing rules filled with backdoors allowed (most countries government don't face punishment for their inability to handle a world wide emergency crisis despite having information about nearly every country's situation thanks to the john hopkins initiative, there are countries where there's still not enough equipment and resources to avoid death related to this coronavirus not mentioning other problems, how governments are allowed to be non transparent and able to create rules under an emergency unrelated to the emergency itself... let's skip the corporations of various categories and just talk about medicines drug factories and special health equipment producers insanely overpricing them in the name of caring, behindering the progress of new potential researches meant to be helpful to maintain health and support humanities chances of surviving these kind of catastrophes...).
I wish if my imaginary perfect world where these shouldn't happen would exist. Until then, everyone should take care of themselves regardless of having a current pandemic.
PhD in TASing 🎓 speedrun enthusiast ❤🚷🔥 white hat hacker ▓ black box tester ░ censorships and rules...
My top concern is: when will our lives return to normal (pre-2019)? Or is this our future now, that we're going to social distance forever?
Recent projects: SMB warpless TAS (2018), SMB warpless walkathon (2019), SMB something never done before (2019), Extra Mario Bros. (best ending) (2020).
According to the extensive researches done by Decentralized Radical Autonomous Search Team Investigating COVID-19, the actions made purposely or accidentally while experimenting with a destructive stuff is definitely was and will always be a concern affecting everyone on the world. It doesn't matter who does this. What matters is the knowledge of anyone doing it to be able to react in time in case a disaster something like coronavirus happens. Or Chernobyl. Or nukes. Or anything that's possible to experiment with without others discovering it.
While I used to joke about should we just hang out in hazmat suits, I hope that we don't progress into wearing an all hole covering diaper suits.
PhD in TASing 🎓 speedrun enthusiast ❤🚷🔥 white hat hacker ▓ black box tester ░ censorships and rules...
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It rests on the conviction that you — by your choices, effort and actions — have made yourself into the
kind of person able to deal with reality. It is the conviction — based on the evidence of your own volitional
functioning — that you are fundamentally able to succeed in life and, therefore, are deserving of that success."
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