Quote Originally Posted by swaledale View Post
The armed forces were handling test centres initially. Not sure there ar e enough medics with ICU training to staff them to be honest.


Heres a stat to make one think.

In 1918 Spanish Flu killed 50 million worldwide

Current Covid deaths worldwide just under 800,000.

In 1918 we didn't have the massive movement of people across the world, mostly by air, but within europe by land. Also bear in mind the population of the world is somewhat larger than it was in 1918.

That gives a good idea of the relative risk and that we are being driven by fear rather than a rational assessment of the actual risks.
800,000 and growing, despite modern living arrangements, medicine and hygiene practices. The risk is very real, and had COVID had hit in 1918, it's a reasonable assumption to believe that the current death toll would have been much higher.