With lane county having a population of 400k the fact that 50 sick people overwhelmed the healthcare system is the real doom not covid.

If we had the healthcare of Japan or Germany we should have 3,000 beds in the county enough to deal with those numbers 50 times over.


But like everything the Pacific northwest is woefully unprepared for a catastrophe event.

It's something that boggled my mind when I moved here.

No air condition, no preparation. No call boxes on the highways.

Hell half the bridges were built at the turn of the century and are delalpitated.

Honestly it's laughable, I lost power for 24 days during the massive snowstorm 2 years ago.

Luckily Im aware of how unprepared they are and have off grid systems to compensate.

The only way we had our roads cleared was locals with their tractors.

Just because we have a criminally inadequate healthcare and infrastructure system doesn't mean we have a covid problem.

We have a Portland problem...