O/T:- Are we over-reacting to COVD19?

[forwardmagpie]

I think it's still too early to make a definitive judgement on the way the government has handled this. Looking at other countries, if we can keep the daily fatalities at or close to double figures as the peak, they have done a decent job. If in the coming weeks the death rate rises to similar numbers as Italy and Spain, they have failed big time. I hope I'm wrong, but I think the big mistake so far was 'advising' rather than 'enforcing'. Even if 90% of people take the advice on board, it still leaves millions who don't. My concern is that the actions we are now taking are a couple of weeks behind when they should have been taken.

A fair analysis Elite.

[upthemaggies]

Going by the graphs, it looks as though we'll be very similar to Italy, the hardest hit will be Spain. USA will likely be the worst hit of all in the developed world.
Seeing the pictures still being tweeted from passengers on the tube trains, I can't understand why those haven't been closed altogether. You'd expect London to be the hardest hit but the tube situation is madness.