> Had this virus affected the kidneys instead of the lungs, the outcome would have been way different.
And if my aunt had wheels and pedals, she'd be a bicycle.
They didn't stock up on ventilators by throwing darts at a dartboard to choose what type of medical equipment to buy. They stocked up on ventilators because a pandemic centering on a respiratory illness was statistically much more likely to occur than one centering on the kidneys.