It is not just the 2% that die. It is that another 15% develop severe illness spending 4-6 weeks in a bio-hazard intensive care unit. Our for profit-system simply doesn't have enough beds to deal with this if the infection becomes widespread.
Can you imagine just 5 million people needing to be admitted to an intensive care bio-hazard unit within a span of a month for 4-6 weeks? Forgetting the bio-hazard part we only have 94,837 ICU beds in the U.S. Supposing we somehow accommodate numbers like these what happens when all those people turn in claims to their insurance companies in excess of a million dollars each for getting this type of care? Do you think the insurance companies have the funds to pay all those claims? Do you think the hospitals will be able to stay afloat when most of these claims go unpaid after the insurance companies go bankrupt?
