COVID-19 — Coronavirus

[Chippy_boy]

But not an EXTRA 500,000 deaths, i.e. 1million.

Deary me, is this what you are now clinging to? "Many of the 500,000 would have died anyway"?

Of course we don't know how many extra it is. What we do know is that 8,000 die per year from flu, so 500,000 dying is one year from a new flu-like virus would be quite a big deal.

 

[The Light Was Yellow Sir]

Apologies if its been covered as this thread moves quite quickly but in regards to "Herd immunity" last week they were saying if you contract it and recover you are not immune and can catch it again, so what has changed that we now think we will be ok if 60% of the population get it? Also if we already have two strains you'd imagine it could mutate again and even if you become immune to one strain would you necessarily be immune to the others?

It’s highly highly unlikely you’d catch ‘it’ again. Most people would likely develop at least short-term immunity to the specific coronavirus that causes COVID-19. However, you would still be susceptible to a different coronavirus infection. Or, this particular virus could mutate, just like the influenza virus does each year. Often these mutations change the virus enough to make you susceptible, because your immune system thinks it is an infection that it has never seen before. So, if cancelling everything and shutting everything down for 4/5 months is the answer, we could well be doing it next year and the year after.

 

[SWP's back]

But then there’s no chance to build herd immunity?

Until there’s a vaccine, no.

 

[Ban-jani]

But you don’t seem to understand that when 9 experts are saying one thing, and the other 1 saying is saying another (for the uk) that it’s perfectly reasonable to question why that is and whether that’s correct.

Doing so does necessitate anyone believing they know better than the UK CMO.

But that’s not the situation at all. The government have a team of people on this and this Ashton fella is the only one persistently being given a platform against.

 

[TheRemainsOfTheDave]

Deary me, is this what you are now clinging to? "Many of the 500,000 would have died anyway"?

Of course we don't know how many extra it is. What we do know is that 8,000 die per year from flu, so 500,000 dying is one year from a new flu-like virus would be quite a big deal.

Right that's me out of this if people aren't reading the thread properly. I'm trying to explain official numbers and you have just assumed something completely unrelated to the matter. I ain't got the patience any more.

 

[Ban-jani]

Until there’s a vaccine, no.

I don’t know the answer to this, I admit but that’s not what the press conference said. They said a large number of people can build up immunity from this.

 

[Ban-jani]

So what?

We can then vaccinate people.

That’s if there is one and even if there is it’s ages away from distribution.

 

[Ban-jani]

When a vaccine arrives then that surely builds any immunity thats needed.

Correct but when’s that going to come?

 

[Vegas]

I know were in frightening times but another concern for me is what happens if governments start panicking. Already we are hearing countries like Iran talk about this in terms of it being a biological attack by the US etc. Twitchy fingers on missile controls springs to mind. Probably just hyperbole from myself but as we are just at the beginning of this, who can tell how this will end.

 

[Blue Hefner]

Could be worse....