A new lockdown has brought the "99% of people recover" crew out in force. Okay. So let's look at numbers.

Do you know a hundred people? Cool. Which one are you choosing to die? But oh, you don't get to choose. It's random.

Yes, some people are more at risk than others. Are you 100% sure that doesn't include you? Your spouse? Your favorite person? If I tell you I made you a sandwich, but there's 1:100 chance you'll die if you eat it, are you eating?

And the issue isn't just the virus! I live in a fairly large house. It's both my house and my mother's, and they're functionally two different households stacked on top of one another.

If everyone was willing to share beds, and we set up air mattresses in the rooms with space for them, and put people on the couches, we could realistically sleep 18 to 19 people here. No one would sleep WELL, but we could stack the bodies.

Person #20 isn't even getting a couch. They're sleeping on the kitchen floor. So if I have a lot of people coming over, and Mom has a lot of people coming over, or someone is actually ill and doesn't want to share a bed, space runs out.

Hospitals, like my house, are large. They seem unending when you visit them. But they can fill up. All the beds can be in use. And not all beds are equal.

So say 1:100 people will die. But they'll probably need one of those beds beforehand. And say five more people need beds, out of those 100. That's six beds! Smaller hospitals can't budget for six open beds all the time. They don't have space.

ICUs fill up, ERs fill up, and then you're putting people who are direly ill with an airborne virus in spaces not equipped to keep them alive OR keep the people around them safe.

The lockdown is not because we have a disease that kills one people in a hundred. It's because enough people get severely ill that we swamp the hospitals and collapse the system that keeps us ALL alive.

So we lock down to slow the spread, to keep the hospitals open, to keep from reaching a point where a car crash or a heart attack kills you due to lack of care.

To all the nice people now trying to educate me on how COVID 19 works: please stop. I know all that. I was directly addressing the people telling me that this disease has a 1% mortality rate and thus doesn't matter.