Coronavirus and football.

[ramAnag]

It's almost as though anyone you think of famous is getting it.
Which brings into question again. How many people do we all actually know, who are infected with this, yet do not know it?

It’s really not...and it’s important to keep a sense of perspective.

The ‘famous’ are newsworthy but in actual fact you can probably name about half a dozen MPs...a similar number of people connected with football and maybe twenty or so other ‘celebs’.

In reality we have a population of around 66,000,000 and have had about 73,000 confirmed cases.
That’s tiny in percentage terms, but it would help so much and give us so much more idea of what is really going on if the testing that has been put in place in Germany and S.Korea had been implemented properly here.

Testing and discovery of a vaccine are really all that matters now and, imo, the World needs to forget profit and act as one for a change.

[Trickytreesreds]

It’s really not...and it’s important to keep a sense of perspective.

The ‘famous’ are newsworthy but in actual fact you can probably name about half a dozen MPs...a similar number of people connected with football and maybe twenty or so other ‘celebs’.

In reality we have a population of around 66,000,000 and have had about 73,000 confirmed cases.
That’s tiny in percentage terms, but it would help so much and give us so much more idea of what is really going on if the testing that has been put in place in Germany and S.Korea had been implemented properly here.

Testing and discovery of a vaccine are really all that matters now and, imo, the World needs to forget profit and act as one for a change.

RA, I think you missed the point being made.

73 000 recorded cases. Yes I get that. But how and why are these recorded cases? Well the simple answer is, when someone is extremely ill to warrent medical treatment and the cause of the illness has to be assertained.

So out of 66 M, how many have had a slight chill, or no symptoms at all?
How many of those have been carrying this disease in any case?

Yes celebrities are newspaper fodder. But to me, it highlights a point made a couple of days ago. That the poor are suffering more?
Well if the big money people can't hide from it, then there is a helluvva lot of carriers out there to even get to them.