"you might die" =??
SARS CoV-2 coronavirus / Covid-19 (No tin foil hat silliness please)
- Thread starter Don't Kill Bill
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We don't know because no information about lockdowns have been presented to the public.
In Italy at least:
Corner shops stay open if they sell groceries.
Newsagents are open but can only sell newspapers and tobacco.
The published flu mortality rate takes into account undocumented cases.
Well, newsagents are still open in Italy, and if the corner shop isn't primarily selling food (not just sweets), that would be closed here, too.
My understanding is small shops selling essential goods have remained open in other countries facing severe lock down measures.
Who the feck goes to the beach in this cold? The hell is wrong with people 
I feel the death rate should also factor in how many people are dying because they can no longer receive proper care. When you read something like 700 new deaths in Italy today, it’s really 700 plus however many haven't been afforded the attention they would usually receive. They say the death rate will most likely be 1%, in reality it will be far greater.
I watched Event 201 A Global Pandemic Exercise a couple of days ago. It took place last October and they used Coronavirus as their "killer virus pandemic" example. The projections in that were 65 million dead worldwide.
You are told by the government and the media that there is a pandemic and you should panic. You don't know whether this is true, you can only trust that it is. You must trust the government and the media. When it comes to "shutting Britain down" I don't think it's wise to just blindly accept it without asking questions.
There is an "alternative" theory out there as to why the world is shutting down. Most are completely unaware of it, of those that are aware of it, some believe it wholeheartedly and others think it's complete nonsense. Personally, I don't believe it, because I am very pessimistic and believe it is more deception. I VERY MUCH WISH I am wrong!
Then if you are currently being treated for it you would fall into this category. But, if you are still unsure, and you aren't a haematologist with a good understanding of epidemiology, calling your GP for clarification would be good, as was advised at the time of its release and on the government website.
Are we expecting an exhaustive list here?
Feels like we are taking part in a sequel to the Truman show.
I'm not saying I'm expecting an exhaustive list. I did, in fairness, make it clear there that I understood that in the timeframe available such things weren't possible!
I am here asking for advice more than anything, cause it's very hard to judge these things when it's yourself. I do appreciate yours.
Doesn't really mean a lot this data, most consumers in China's have more than one mobile airtime subscription, you've also got the fact that if you're home bound then you don't need anything else other than WiFi. To try to correlate this to a death count doesn't take the full picture into account.
Louisiana in full lock down mode
Thanks - was after an inclination, shouldn't have used the word "confirm". Sucks because my father manages a wholesale company for cornershops/newsagents and is in his 60s. He refuses to stop working and it looks like the warehouse will stay open regardless of a lockdown
A Spring heatwave might be helpful
They might not know. A family member enquired with their GP about increased risk from atrial fibrillation and was told there is none, despite it being present in a quarter of Italian fatalities.
They're suggesting over 8 million people died?!
Yeah, everyone will be out buying shit for BBQs.
Setting the moors on fire.
Yes, but the data doesn't correlate with consumer behaviour to assume that a drop in subscriber numbers is equal to deaths in absolute numbers.
I would be surprised if afib was the only underlying health condition. Isn't it often present with another? That's my (limited) understanding of it.
Given Italy’s numbers I think China’s death rate seems too low but 8m would be insane. I suppose we will never know the true figures.
No evidence to say that will do anything. The US sunbelt states are in UK High summer equivalent temperatures. They're still struggling with it.
It's something that comes with old age. Maybe it's just a coincidence and its other conditions in these elderly patients that's causing the deaths, or maybe it is contributing. Either way, it is still far too early in our understanding of the virus to say that afib is absolutely not a risk factor.
Ah OK. I did jump in half way without reading back so that's my bad. Anyway, I hope it all gets sorted for you swiftly.
Cheers, man.
McDonald’s closing all restaurants in UK.
He’ll always be Christopher Hitchen’s dumb brother.
Great. So now we have 17000 who die from the flu and another 17000 who die from coronavirus.
Best to take at least one of them seriously eh?
Yeah they corrected the figures now. About 8000 cases in the USA today
The thing is though that you have to take the amount of people who get it into account. If 40 % of the global population ends up inflected and 0.05 % of those die then you're still looking at burying 1.5 million people.
I do wonder how you enforce that. Say if I'm out having a walk to alleviate the boredom, what's stopping me from just saying that I'm going to shop to get some paracetamol or whatever?
The drive-thru queues will be mad right now then.
Well the last point says you can go outside as long as you maintain a safe distance from others.
Sounds like someone trying to be funny to me!
Yeah, but that's difficult when it's rammed, eg the pics of the parks today.
Wonder if the thundering moron still thinks it's a hoax.