Excess Spanish Deaths Are A Hoax

[ecstatichamster]

as of today, 5700 have died supposedly from Covid-19 in Spain
COVID-19: UK fatalities pass 1,000

In 2012 there were almost 14,000 deaths supposedly excess from the flu and the cold...where were the lockdowns and the freakouts?

Exceso de mortalidad relacionado con la gripe en España en el invierno de 2012 - ScienceDirect

In February and March 2012, in the Spanish and European mortality monitoring systems, an excess mortality of 8110 and 10,872 deaths was detected (mortality ratio: 1.22, 95% confidence interval [95% CI]: 1, 21-1.23, and 1.32, 95% CI: 1.29-1.31, respectively). The model that estimates the mortality attributable to influenza in the 2011-2012 season identified the maximum percentage (97%) of deaths attributable to influenza in people over 64 years of age with respect to the total mortality associated with influenza (13,822 deaths) . The rate of excess deaths from influenza and pneumonia and respiratory causes in people older than 64 years, obtained with the Serfling model, was highest in the 2011-2012 season: 18.07 and 77.20 deaths per 100,000 inhabitants, respectively.

 

[Mufasa]

The problem is the capacity of the intensive care. Look at this graph from my country, the Netherlands:

We have 925 IC beds for corona patients in the whole country. This number will be increased to 1050 soon, but that may very well be too little. It is hard too increase the IC capacity, you need special equipment, that we normally import, but a dutch company is now trying to make it themself. And also you need very well trained doctors. It probably needs to increase to at least 1600 so lets hope they get there act together soon enough.

Or maybe the measurements taken can flatten the curve you see above quickly enough. It takes on average 2-3 weeks for infected people to get on an IC bed, so we may have started just at the right time with working from home in the Netherlands.