Covid-19 Over The Top?

[jamesbutts1]

hi i was wondering why has everything got blow up after me finding out that 150,000 people a day die then when this corona comes along and its killed around 8000 people over 3 months its such a big deal?

[mibn2cweus]

//Covid-19 Over The Top?//

Come back in three more months and perhaps you'll have an answer.

[Theland]

So the violin lessons I have booked might prove to be a waste of money?
Just my luck.
Might just sell it.

[Spicerack]

//This will kill many more people, and ruin many more lives, before it is all over. Hysteria it is not.//

Talk of 20 million deaths in the UK is hysteria.

[ladybirder]

I hope it is Spicy:-(

[Peter Pedant]

// I am sure people survived the black death gradually forming part of an immune population,//

er 1665 - there were survivors - they found work as the ones crying bring out your dead! - also Eyam is where the vicar persuaded them to self isolate. Yup 1665 again and I cant remember how many died - 30% perhaps
and now...... the descendants are immune from HIV - shares the same receptor. darwin and all that
yup start gnawing Rowan !

if they hadn't it would still be killing huge numbers today instead it fizzled away as plagues have done through history. Nope
Plague bacillus - P Pestis usually sortta dwells in the Black Rat flea - rattus rattus - and xenopsylla cheopsis
and er the flea doesnt dwell on Rattus Norwegicus - Norwegian rat
and since R Norvegicus is now the commonest rat on ships - you dont see Plague now.
if you have finished one limb - start on another !
Vietnam has plague ( and therefore must have Black rats) and the last one in England was 1908 east anglia - six deaths

last case was in a technie in Porton Down 1962 - it was impressed on us that if we had as sloppy bacteriological technique as he did then we would all DDDIIIIIEEEE !

sorry about that - I dont suppose you have got down to here

oh hahaha in the indian outbreak, I must tell you, the rats came out of the sewers and died - but they also run along rafters, and in plague times, die half way across and fall dead as doornails onto the floor
This is called rat-fall. Yup they have a name for it
no rat-fall no plague -so there was doubt whether it was true-bill

o god someone is gonna press the report button arent they?

[Theland]

No it's interesting.

[jim360]

I may have missed it, but as far as I was aware, "20 million" was about cases, rather than deaths.

[royfromaus]

If you are referring to this thread, you have missed it.

[royfromaus]

At the moment it all looks way OTT. Hopefully, it will remain that way.

[jim360]

So I did.

But then, I was referring to official projections, rather than Chico projections.

[Khandro]

There are much worse things can happen; my golf club has yesterday closed down & I'd just paid my eye-watering annual subscription!

[royfromaus]

Please excuse my lack of mind-reading skills, it's much trickier over the internet.

[Theland]

Khandro - And I thought I had problems :-(
A line for the song maybe?

[ichkeria]

I think it’s a case where worst case scenarios are highlighted to bring home the need to take precautions.
I don’t believe for a moment that the number of deaths will come anywhere near the figures being quoted, but no one wants to take a chance.
And the problem with spinning this out as is being talked about is going to bring own social, economic, and health issues

[jim360]

I knew you were going to say that :)

I *did* miss Buen's sensationalist figure, which is clearly nonsense. That shouldn't be allowed to distract from the fact that there is a genuine and serious health crisis, and that many will die before it's over.