The worst disease is already happening before our eyes man and nobody is losing any sleep over it. By that I mean Liverpool winning the titleOne does not preclude the other, personally I would rather avoid both.
You don't see much media about 100m Americans being pre diabetics which fuck up their lives financially and physically for life. Throw in cancer, heart disease, regular flu too.
Anyway, a lot of politics going on everywhere so media are having a field day
There is a lot of money to be made, people panic buying, ripping off people with masks and hand sanitizers, people waiting to hop on the markets when its rock bottom, hospitals billing patients thousands for testing, pharmaceutical companies making a quick miracle drug etc
I've stocked up on 200 tins of beans and 20kg of jasmine rice just to jump on the bandwagon. We shall see we if this thread is still going come late summer
Very much this. It's becoming extremely tiresome reading someone pop up everyday saying "Yeah, but loads more people have died from flu", as though a). that even makes any difference and b). they're the only genius in town who's figured this out.https://www.wired.com/story/coronavirus-is-bad-comparing-it-to-the-flu-is-worse/
This is 20 to 40 fucking times more lethal than fucking flu.
I do wish people would stop making this idiotic comparison every twenty or so pages.
Very much this. It's becoming extremely tiresome reading someone pop up everyday saying "Yeah, but loads more people have died from flu", as though a). that even makes any difference and b). they're the only genius in town who's figured this out.
It should be immediately obvious to anyone why it's a ridiculous comparison to make.
I dunno, I don't remember being stuck at home and told to isolate for those.Hallelujah! Brexit has been and gone, this gives all the meedya something to get their jaws into again. We had the same thing with sars, the same thing with ebola, the same thing even with hiv.
A thread for those asking earlier today why confirmed cases seem to be low compared to their expectation of the number of confirmed cases they believe should exist. This is in the US (in one of the confirmed outbreak areas on the west coast), of course, but based on reports about testing availability and prevalence of screening in the UK and elsewhere, it is likely fairly representative of the experience of many across the world.
It's not though, is it.The fatality rate is 1%,
And so the polarisation of opinions begin; my instincts tell me this may be considerably worse than ‘ this is just another cold’ brigade..hope I’m on the wrong side of opinion here.
China appear to be containing it partly with a lot of public education.I seriously cannot understand how it can be contained if people are waking around with it, without knowing they have it.