Either provide the data, or
I read a lot of whitepaper; scientific study type stuff... let me catch you up on what I've gleaned
to begin with this virus has an
r0>2; some studies put it as high as 5 or 6. In short that means that it WILL as a matter of fact push through the entire population until herd immunity is reached.
to reach "herd immunity" of a novel virus you'd need
60% plus of population to be infected; until that time comes it is more than likely it will continue chewing through the populace unabated. The rate of new cases is doubling at least every 6 days.
0.6*330,000,000 = 198,000,000
the problem is the prevalence of the requirement of intubation in those infected
when you do the math on ventilators... situation is pretty fucked.
in italy; better than 40% require hospitalization;
6.5% of all cases are on ventilators
push the issue of 40% hospitalization aside... assume we can all have home IV therapy for fluids and pain killers
*0.065 = 12,870,000
there are only 80k ventilators in the US
12870000/80000=160 people per ventilator
average ventilator time is
25 days before recovery
160*25=4000 days
/365=11 years to treat the US population with the ventilators currently on the shelves.
Reality though...
greater than 80% of the ventilators in US stock are already in use on existing patients with other issues.
the urgency in the situation is that if we do not flatten the curve, then anyone that needs a ventilator and can't get one in time is dead.
That's no less than 10 million people in the US - dead.
You could make an adjustment here and say... 75% of all cases will be asymptomatic and we'll never even notice them. I suspect that is high end estimate. Nonetheless, that's still 2 million dead - which required ventilators and could have survived.
the only solution to the problem is to buy time to build ventilators - or find some yet unknown pharmacological solution.
Vaccines for coronavirus are notoriously difficult; in all animal studies to date everything that has been developed has had a 2% or better kill rate; you take the vaccine and there is 2% chance a healthy animal dies within 2 years. It is highly unlikely that any vaccine will be on the table in the coming year.
I strongly discourage you from "rebelling" simply because you disagree with "what" the government is doing; do take this seriously.
Mathematically, there is strong likelihood that healthcare across the globe is about to become highly strained.
If anything... this is the time when your self sufficiency and forward planning as a liberty advocate should come into play. Do what you can to see to it that YOUR FAMILY is not requiring healthcare when the masses are.
These are trying times; I advocate for self-sufficiency and urge you not to engage in rebellion.