It’s a week old and caveats it’s data as such, but there is a clear explanation of how they arrive at a ~1% mortality figure. The infection rate is the big problem, and the fact you are infectious before showing symptoms. The mortality rate is relatively low compared to swine flu, bird flu etc.
I left the bike at home this morning and commuted in by bus. I’d forgotten how unhygenic those things are .
There was a guy on there who was coughing and generally looking really unhealthy. Other passengers were looking at him the same way as folks looked at anyone with a beard and a backpack after the 7/7 bombings. I think the other passengers would have dragged him off the bus at the next stop if anyone had dared get within a metre of him
Most of us on here are probably lucky enough to be in jobs that will pay us in full if we have to take time out for sickness. It must be difficult if you’re on a zero-hours contract and if you don’t work you don’t get paid and can’t pay the rent.
my other half and I were just discussing this… IF there is a real national emergency, with nationally schools getting shut and public transport being stopped, then there are a lot of people who will be in serious financial trouble within a week or two, not months, and not just those on zero hours contracts… we could quickly see some huge social problems where the financial issues outweigh the health ones… how do you feed a million people who don’t have any money at all, not even enough for a loaf of bread, let alone enough for an online food delivery or a pantry full of emergency supplies?.. who will stop them from pillaging shut supermarkets when they are desperate and their kids are crying because they’re hungry?.. how will the utilities, who operate on single digit margins, cope when a million people stop paying their gas bill, yet still hav to pay their suppliers?.. what would be the response to a million rent or mortgage payments being missed on cash flow into the financial services sector and their ability to release money to pensions etc?.. ths may all be a bit ‘scaremonger-y’, but it doesn’t take much of a leap to see some really really significant problems.
Read online that France has banned any event with more than 5000 participants. How that affects sporting events with high attendances (like football, 6 nations, etc), remains to be seen
Things will really get violent if the stories about pets getting/transmitting CV turn out to be true. Can you imagine the scenario where people are forced to give up their pets for slaughter?