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

[Lullapie]

Read this from the chair of global public health at the University of Edinburgh.

A damning analysis of how the Government has fcuked this up. It's dithering and negligence will lead to thousands and thousands of extra deaths. This is what you get when you vote for politicians that care nothing for ordinary people.

https://www.theguardian.com/commenti...art-squandered

From a totally unbiased source.

[the_anticlough]

From a totally unbiased source.

It's from the chair of global public health at the University of Edinburgh.

[Elite_Pie]

It's from the chair of global public health at the University of Edinburgh.

It's becoming a common tactic on here. A few just don't want to hear any criticism of the government, so they completely ignore what's actually being said and discredit the source instead.

[upthemaggies]

Is the mortality rate that much different - only asking the question before the Usual Suspects pipe up? I mean if Covid-19 had a high mortality rate, but very low transmission, would we be closing everything down?

MERS is around 35% fatality rate, hard to catch unless you're living or caring for a carrier
SARS was 11%, harder to spread but you can get it out in public
COVID, hard to say right now but we're probably looking at 1% globally. I think half of the world is expected to get it at some point, so 1% of those would be an enormous number of people.

If we had something like MERS in the UK instead of COVID then we wouldn't need to shut down, the advice would be to avoid whichever animal was passing it on.

Another SARS-1 level of mortality and spread probably would result in a shutdown now that we've had COVID, but it would be much easier to bring under control so restrictions might be more localised and wouldn't take as long.

[the_anticlough]

It's becoming a common tactic on here. A few just don't want to hear any criticism of the government, so they completely ignore what's actually being said and discredit the source instead.

Yes, easy to spot but I think everyone can see that and they only discredit themselves.

Picking up on what you said about the jury being out on the Govt's handling of the catastrophe ('crisis' just won't cut it as a descriptor any more) I think there's a compelling case already as set out in the article and the disbelief in other countries at the UK's approach. As you say, the final reckoning will be in the raw figures when this is all over. But it sure isn't looking too good right now - a jump of 1,427 in a single day and London alone looks catastrophic. Each and every borough has masses of cases and we know how Londoners live and travel right up until yesterday really, more or less unchecked.

[the_anticlough]

the disbelief in other countries at the UK's approach.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...-boris-johnson