Once again you ignore the big picture.CYERCaptainPooping wrote: ↑Tue Dec 07, 2021 2:09 pm Or like I have been told by others. The vaccine hesitant would be lining up for vaccines if Covid was more deadly. No shit! Happy to get my polio vaccine, tetanus shot etc. If I had to draw diseases from a hat I’d be praying for the common cold or Covid.
It’s absurd this is still high ranking media garbage. Still can’t figure out how the elderly got vaccinated and we still haven’t moved on. Maybe people just love a reason to virtu signal with masks and vaccine passports.
Hospitals. People go there when they can't breathe. COVID isn't extremely dangerous on it's own, but considering how quickly it spreads, the hospitals get overwhelmed quickly. That is when people die.
https://covid-19.ontario.ca/data/hospitalizations
As we can see, the unvaccinated account for the vast majority of hospitalized COVID cases whereas they account for a small minority of the total population.
ICU resources and staffing were not sufficient during COVID-19 surges. In May 2021, at the peak of wave 3 the number of adult patients requiring invasive mechanical ventilation (IMV) in Ontario ICUs was 180% of the pre-pandemic historic average.
https://covid19-sciencetable.ca/science ... -pandemic/Recent modelling suggests that there may be an increased number of patients with CRCI alongside influenza over the 2021/2022 winter months, driving an increase in potential ICU admissions. There is a growing ICU staffing shortage with increases in nurse vacancy rates in particular across the provinces’ ICUs. Burnout, which has been exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic and in particular impacts nurses, is a significant contributor to staffing shortages.
Let's use an analogy here... people are being pushed out of airplanes. It is not that risky when there are enough parachutes. Once we run out of parachutes (no more ICU space), people start getting seriously injured and dying.
You may think that my analogy is absurd, but that is how many of us feel when we see people arguing the narrow point that COVID itself isn't that dangerous to most individuals.