Thankgod,
SARS CoV-2 coronavirus / Covid-19 (No tin foil hat silliness please)
- Thread starter Don't Kill Bill
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28,000 people died from flu in 2014/15 in the UK alone. On average 17000 die on average every year in the UK from flu.
And?
Yay,another Flu comparison.
Watching the 6 pm news and the scenes from across the UK are so scary . Every park or garden is full of people , everyone's enjoying a nice sunny day . People really don't have a clue and England will soon have it worse than Italy
https://assets.publishing.service.g...al_influenze_report_19_March_2020_week_12.pdf
144 new acute respiratory outbreaks have been reported in the past 14 days:
109 outbreaks were from care homes where seven tested positive for SARS-COV2
15 outbreaks were from schools where one tested positive for SARS-COV2
7 outbreaks were from hospitals where two tested positive for SARS-COV2
13 outbreaks were from the Other Settings category where four tested positive for SARS-COV2
and
Up to 18 March 2020, a total of 2,626 confirmed cases of COVID-19, have been confirmed in the UK. On-going surveillance has identified 53,595 suspected cases in the UK that tested negative.
These are the only two references to SARS-COV2 / COVID-19 I could see in the report.
Why does the report say 2,626 confirmed cases of COVID-19, but only detail 14 of them?
53,595 people thought they might have COVID-19, but they didn't. What was wrong with them?
144 new acute respiratory outbreaks have been reported in the past 14 days:
109 outbreaks were from care homes where seven tested positive for SARS-COV2
15 outbreaks were from schools where one tested positive for SARS-COV2
7 outbreaks were from hospitals where two tested positive for SARS-COV2
13 outbreaks were from the Other Settings category where four tested positive for SARS-COV2
and
Up to 18 March 2020, a total of 2,626 confirmed cases of COVID-19, have been confirmed in the UK. On-going surveillance has identified 53,595 suspected cases in the UK that tested negative.
These are the only two references to SARS-COV2 / COVID-19 I could see in the report.
Why does the report say 2,626 confirmed cases of COVID-19, but only detail 14 of them?
53,595 people thought they might have COVID-19, but they didn't. What was wrong with them?
Moron.
I am meant to be in work in the morning. I had a hospital appointment last week where I was told I was, but haven't received a letter. No idea if I should be going in tomorrow or not.
Rand Paul announces he has been diagnosed with coronavirus and is in quarantine
Ouch
Imagine how stupid you have to be to genuinely think it makes sense to compare yearly flu death figures to the current death toll of this virus.
I don’t think that is it at all. Personally I think that the decision to lock the country down has already been made.
The government are implementing smaller steps over a longer period rather than a singular large jump in one go. Rightly or wrongly it’s being done to allow the country to digest the measures more easily.
Also when we do get the total lockdown (in the next couple of days imo) he can lay the blame for the drastic action on the people that didn’t listen to him initially and continued to ignore the governments requests.
The term is covidiot.
The message said the letters would be sent out from Tuesday next week but to carry on as the current advice suggests. If you have already been told to self isolate then you should do so.
It was understandable weeks ago but at this point, you have to be living in a bubble to not know how serious it is.
I forgot to attack the post.Ouch
I don't think this is true. I think it's the people in a bubble that do understand. Most people think things will be back to normal soon.
650 people died In Italy alone today of it, that's a rate of over 230,000 a year, assuming it doesn't keep increasing.
A very simplistic way of looking at it for sure, but somehow less simplistic than yours. You're comparing yearly statistics to stats for just a couple of weeks, in a sistation that is still getting worse by the day.
You cant think that this is just a flu and will just disappear in a week or 2 and we'll just get back to normal
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Many thanks, duly noted.
Yeah and it would be kept on increasing exponentially if lockdown wasn't put into place.
Horrible combo of things to be involved in.
But incredible good fortune to get through the Holocaust is the positive I suppose. To get to a ripe old age.
Wow - an 18 year old has now passed in the UK.
feck you Boris, you cnut.
feck you Boris, you cnut.
Have you got the link?
Question to our Indian based posters:
How is Convid19 interrupting Modi's 'national ID' plans and the demonstrations against that?
How is Convid19 interrupting Modi's 'national ID' plans and the demonstrations against that?
in all seriousness, this thread is 400 pages old. There's been so many but flu comparisons that it's grinding now, and I think people need to be called out for it. I'll get a warning from Trump I guess.
Scary on one hand. Promising on the other. A lot of us could have had it, and not had any of the two UK official symptoms, and now have recovered with far greater immunity. If we were factored in, this would substantially slash the case fatality rate. That’s one possible miracle that gets out of this sooner than we anticipate.
Attack the post not the poster, but i think the moderators should make an exception on this one.I wrote before that the ciao ciao double cheek kiss (from unknown carriers) must also have been a huge reason for their higher numbers.
On 'Crazy' ... Wuhan residents were welded into their apartments by Government agents during enforced self isolation. Sometimes dictatorship is useful!
Who said that? I'm stating facts not predictions. On average 600,000 people die every year in the UK. A lot of people that die of covid19 would be among the deaths this year without covid19. There would be an overlap, even Patrick Valance admitted this.
I should probably know this, but I wonder where the Manchester equivalent would be? Manchester Central/G-Mex?
"A makeshift hospital has been set up in a conference centre in the capital Madrid, a city that is bearing some of the highest infection rates.
The hospital will be fitted with 5,500 beds, making it the biggest facility of its kind in Europe. Its director, Antonio Zapatero, told El Mundo newspaper that 300 people will be move there this weekend.
Earlier we reported on new figures from Spain, which has now seen over 1,700 disease-related deaths since the coronavirus epidemic began."
From the BBC. Should say "moved". I see many articles on the bbc site have spelling mistakes or broken English.
Basically, we're fecked and took too long to act. Technically, all commercial activity hasn't stopped in the UK either. Some retail stores and coffee shops are still open.
Everyone who posts with this flu comparison doesn't realise that if we can turn this into another seasonal virus with the same yearly death rate, it will be a big win.
Anything other than the Daily Mail?
