COVID paranoia

[OwlHoot]

Getting close now to 1/2 million people dead from Covid-19 globally.

So no, it's not worse that being one of those dead people.

I've thought all along that widespread administering of a controlled infection with a small dose, i.e. a crude vaccine of a kind, would have been the least bad long term option, by rapidly giving society herd immunity.

Yes, it would make some individuals as sick as a parrot for a while, and even cause a few fatalities. But they are happening anyway aren't they? That's nature for you and nobody's direct fault, and most fatalities are probably caused by copping a large initial dose of the virus with no prior exposure to allow a prompt effective immune response.

Something else to consider is that sooner or later we'll probably nearly all be infected by coronavirus one way or another, because possibly more waves are on the way:

2020-06-16 Beijing residents are rounded up and put in quarantine as the city goes back into lockdown, schools are shut and travel bans are reintroduced to stop 'extremely severe' new coronavirus outbreak

So complete avoidance is not necessarily the best option, unless you are relying on a safe vaccine or prompt cure to be available in the next year or so, which doesn't seem to me very likely.

[HoofHearted]

Do you understand the meaning of word "contagious"?

40k dead in the UK with 5% estimated having had the virus - so 800k (!) on the cards if it's allowed to go unchecked, and immunity from the virus might not last long too, so could be potentially 800k every year....

Solves the housing shortage

[Excursion UK]

Anyone else think that COVID paranoia is worse than the whole thing has become?

We've got cancer referrals being missed, the countrys economy falling to pieces, people losing their jobs (dont tell me that won't affect suicide rates) but we seem entirely focused on ensuring there are ZERO deaths from Covid.
Its a trendy death at the moment. Die from cancer no one cares its got to be COVID.

And dont get me started on schools. We're screwing the kids up. I heard there is 3X more chance of a kid getting struck by lightening than dying of Covid. Yet people are believing the media.

Im not saying we dont need to protect the vulnerable but how much longer does this have to go on?

Still got the 5 mile rule in wales. Jeez. You've elderly parent who you haven't seen for 3 months lives 10 miles away. The R rate in England is 0.8, in wales its 0.7 yet the rules are different. Do you really think people are obeying this rule?

"Border run" to Bristol this weekend. Once I get over the water I'm safe. A LOT of people are doing this at the moment which is crazy indeed. (Need some kegs from Primark!)

On the plus side, it looks like my client is going to lock down office attendance even more. You've not got to give notice on the thursday before to attend site the following week with no exceptions. I don't think they quite understand the concept of having someone on call 24/7.

Latest is WFH until Jan 2021 earliest.

Yes, shield the elderly and vulnerable and life goes on as normal cf. Sweden.


This govt's disastrous response is absolutely ruining people's lives. Mine included.

[LondonManc]

Do you understand the meaning of word "contagious"?

40k dead in the UK with 5% estimated having had the virus - so 800k (!) on the cards if it's allowed to go unchecked, and immunity from the virus might not last long too, so could be potentially 800k every year.... and it gets "better" - many of those who don't die have serious lung injuries (probably meaning certain death if they get virus again in a year).

I asked suity to design a system and it took the contagious?

[Excursion UK]

Something else to consider is that sooner or later we'll probably nearly all be infected by coronavirus one way or another, because possibly more waves are on the way:

Or, as a recent study suggests (can't find link) it will just fizzle out like SARS did.

[AtW]

Yes, shield the elderly and vulnerable and life goes on as normal cf. Sweden. This govt's disastrous response is absolutely ruining people's lives. Mine included.

Sweden is in the same deep tulip - even worse since infection was not suppressed, the herd immunity strategy they had failed so far and economic damage as bad

[AtW]

Or, as a recent study suggests (can't find link) it will just fizzle out like SARS did.

Yeah, just like flu and common cold it will disappear

FFS

[Excursion UK]

Sweden is in the same deep tulip - even worse since infection was not suppressed, the herd immunity strategy they had failed so far and economic damage as bad

Covid deaths per million of two countries. One locked down, one didn't.

UK 614
Sweden 483

[AtW]

Covid deaths per million of two countries. One locked down, one didn't.

UK 614
Sweden 483

Yeah, and guess who decided to go for the herd immunity and at the same time having a clown for PM?

Compare Sweden’s deaths to Norway.

[Excursion UK]

Yeah, just like flu and common cold it will disappear

FFS

Well SARS did didn't it?

Apart from the one that escaped from that lab in Wuhan