tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20173285.post2317800583775368176..comments2024-03-28T21:21:02.777-04:00Comments on Divrei Chaim: trolley problem revisited againChaim B.http://www.blogger.com/profile/02231811394447584320noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20173285.post-64055156032706942792021-12-17T12:29:36.978-05:002021-12-17T12:29:36.978-05:00I would go even further than @DrMike . Many healt...I would go even further than @DrMike . Many healthcare facilities (starting w/ their personnel) _did_ get overwhelmed then; and many are getting overwhelmed now. Then, there was no vaccine; now, those facilities are being overwhelmed by unvaccinated patients. Of course there's corollary damage -- "stay at home" orders/lockdowns represent drastic (one might even say "wartime"-type) measures -- and that's what happens when one is at war. The real question for the Scott Atlases of the world is, "OK, big talker, what would you have done in Mar 2020?"MPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05881354246354816814noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20173285.post-74190006934090919132021-12-16T17:26:28.987-05:002021-12-16T17:26:28.987-05:00But hindsight is 20/20. At the time we had no ide...But hindsight is 20/20. At the time we had no idea what the damage from CoVID19 would be. What if it turned out to have a 10% mortality rate? What if it turned out to have a 25% mortality rate in those over 65? All we had to go on was our experience with SARS and MERS and those did have high mortality rates. Remember the point of the lockdown was originally three fold<br />1) Keep the hospitals from getting overwhelmed<br />2) Keep people from dying<br />3) Eliminate the virus. Again, we had the experience of SARS and MERS where precautions did eliminate the virus. We thought we were in the same position with a much more contagious version, the worst of possible scenarios.<br />So now almost 2 years later it's easy to look back and say "We overeacted". Based on what we know now, we did. Based on what we knew then, we didn't.DrMikehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01575289499774072867noreply@blogger.com