Do you accept that in South Korea, there’s 100 or so recovered, 42 dead and 6,000 or so positive but neither recovered nor dead (therefore we can’t yet extrapolate their results as they could yet die or recover)?Like I said.
The WHO is mixing poor, incomplete statistics with the most accurate, largest sample size, highest level of tested population. I’m not saying conglomeration of all data is a bad thing, only that one needs to understand what the numbers say and mean are not always the same thing.
18 confirmed cases in manchester.
Is it time to close schools and collages and the universities for a fortnight just as a precaution?
I think the Easter holidays are 3-20 April for most so tagging a few weeks on to that beforehand would make sense. Logistically I am not sure who it would work though. That is a lot of childcare. They certainly need to stop the large congregations of people first so the sporting events will be one of the first to be done. I think knowing this country we will wait and see on schools.
Scenes of people rushing to catch the last trains out of Lombardy, health system there will collapse I suspect and watch the bottom fall out of the markets on the open on Monday. Surely Serie A season has to e cancelled now?
Do you *seriously* suggest that national governments would be implementing such incredibly damaging draconian measures (such as in China and northern Italy) were this to all be nothing much more than flu? The pressures to sit back and carry on as normal, hoping for the best, are simply enormous - in terms of jobs, trade, the economy, peoples' way of life, freedom - pretty much everything. And yet draconian measures ARE being taken, because these governments, advised by their scientists, can see the severity of the crisis.You asked, I answered. Take the results for what they’re worth.CDC and WHO are including some poor stats, which you clearly see for yourself...but you can hide behind them if you so choose.
I’ll take the largest sample size and results, as opposed to the places where we only really know about the 20%!
The world has lost its collective fucking mind over a strain of the flu that has been shown to be nowhere near others in terms of its mortality rates yet here we are effectively locking the globe and life down over it?
Fucking ridiculous.
The point is, it is more contagious and will ultimately kill more people. On top of that it there is no vaccine and they are hoping it doesn't mutate into anything worse. The comparison re seasonal flu is pretty irrelevant, with all due respect