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People don't understand how close we came to the brink by AquinasDomer

We have just in time supply chains for about everything, including basic medications. Most generic medications we use come from China/India. Our ability to mass produce a lot of workhorse medications are similar to ppe.

What we saw in every country that let it rip was a bad variant. Brazil got gamma. Sub Sahara africa got beta. India eventually got delta, etc.

Gamma was 3 to 4 times more deadly than our original variant. Beta was 2 or 3 times worse. Delta was 2 to 3 times worse. The reason delta overwhelmed everyone was massively worse transmissibility.

Brazil had total breakdown of hospital services in one city. I heard a doctor discuss how they had neonates dying of non COVID diseases that are 100% survivable without any disability because they ran out of oxygen. Hell, Los Angeles was having oxygen distribution issues in January After the release of The Great Barrington Declaration when they had a much wimpier variant.

‘Our New York Moment’: Southern California Reels as Virus Surges https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/09/us/california-coronavirus.html?smid=nytcore-android-share