COVID-19 — Coronavirus

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Hi all.

Can someone please explain to this ignoramus why Covid19 is being treated differently to the seasonal 'flu? As I understand it (and please correct me if I'm wrong), it's no worse. So why the drastic measures for one disease and not the other? Why aren't people with 'flu asked to self-isolate? Why don't countries shut down for 'flu?

I've read that Covid19 can be contained but the seasonal 'flu can't. Why?

Genuine question - I'm evidently missing something; I just can't see what it is and the University of Google isn't helping.

Cheers.
 
Stuuuuuu said:
Hi all.

Can someone please explain to this ignoramus why Covid19 is being treated differently to the seasonal 'flu? As I understand it (and please correct me if I'm wrong), it's no worse. So why the drastic measures for one disease and not the other? Why aren't people with 'flu asked to self-isolate? Why don't countries shut down for 'flu?

I've read that Covid19 can be contained but the seasonal 'flu can't. Why?

Genuine question - I'm evidently missing something; I just can't see what it is and the University of Google isn't helping.

Cheers.
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have you not read anything on here ?

this is far more powerful than the flu and far more deadly - so far that it really shouldn’t be compared
 
Stuuuuuu said:
Hi all.

Can someone please explain to this ignoramus why Covid19 is being treated differently to the seasonal 'flu? As I understand it (and please correct me if I'm wrong), it's no worse. So why the drastic measures for one disease and not the other? Why aren't people with 'flu asked to self-isolate? Why don't countries shut down for 'flu?

I've read that Covid19 can be contained but the seasonal 'flu can't. Why?

Genuine question - I'm evidently missing something; I just can't see what it is and the University of Google isn't helping.

Cheers.
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Yeah I’m out.
 
BobKowalski said:
A Europe wide travel ban is dumb, especially if you can fly from Belfast and not Dublin. A ban on cargo (is this right?) is just going to tank the markets even further.

The UK being exempt won’t last until Friday as we start shuttering parts of the economy unless Trump still thinks no one in the UK has it. Assuming Trump thinks that is.

Weird.
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I've seen it reported that Ireland might be exempt, it's unclear though. It's possible Donny thinks it's part of the UK!
 
Stuuuuuu said:
I'm evidently missing something;
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It’s at least one magnitude more lethal than Flu.

There is zero population immunity to this (unlike like the Flu), meaning that as many as 50-70% of the population could catch it.

That’s 50m people.

If it’s lethality lowers to only 1% of those infected (WHO currently still saying 3.4 although we hope and expect that to drop with time) then that means 500,000 dead. Or 10 lots of the Etihad to look at it another way.

Even if you take fatalities out of the equation, 15-20% also require hospital treatment meaning 10-15m could end up in a hospital with it (if left unchecked without measures taken to reduce the contagion spread). If that happened in a short space of time then the NHS would be crippled and many others could die as a result.

Out of morbid curiosity, what made you think it’s only as bad as normal flu?
 
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Time for Boris to come out and say what our stance on it is, something has to give in a bit ,do we wait for hundreds more to die before any action is taken. Washing hands is all we've heard so far, great advice guys would never thought of doing that.
 
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