Replies to post #299842 on SPDR S&P 500 (SPY)

[RCKS]

I think how its being handled is appropriate because we can't risk over whelming our health system. If it swept through too quickly we would be setting up triage tents in every community and losing many people we wouldn't need to lose if this moves slower its for the better.

I get on the surface it seems stupid on the surface when everything around seems normal in every other respect, jmho

[restripe]

Great idea LOL geez

[MADDSTACKER]

you must not have parents or elderly family ? ... and the rate is closer to 6%

[Schneidku40]

IMO you are mostly right but the problem is not so much how many dead in the end (however morbid that sounds, I know), but overloading hospitals at once. The death rate goes up if hospitals are too full to treat people properly. That also means other people who come in for my other emergency- car wreck, heart attack, cancer, etc., encounter less care available and thus a higher death rate than they normally would have. People panic when they can’t see a doctor right away in an emergency.