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Did I say that I find it narrow minded trusting the experts
I must have done if YOU say so!
That'll be due to your apparent lack of common sense i suspect?
It has been requested earlier in this thread to stop this type of b*ll*x between each other but you know what I'm reaching a point where I couldn't give a flying f*** anymore and that includes being banned from here.
After al,l it is evident that much as there are some extremely pleasant, mature , etc etc people on here ( especially in f&c)where i predominantly "reside") there is also a percentage of *******s too.
I don't have time nor the energies to waste with *******s
Good point, good question.
Yep as i suspected. No point.
And now polls find majority (55% I think) Americans think Trump is doing a good job on the virus
Judged by replication, the only thing the virus 'cares' about, I suppose the endemic common cold coronas are some of the most successful of all human pathogens - everyone gets them, usually with mild disease, and immunity isn't lifelong so re-infection is possible (which may or may not be a problem with SARS-CoV-2).
This is the reality of BJ's claim of 'turning the tide' in 12 weeks. Yes, with sufficient measures in place we ought to be able to suppress the number of new cases and deaths in that sort of timescale, but we're then in a cleft stick because, as the model shows, another outbreak is expected soon after restrictions are lifted. The modellers advising the government actually think that we'd need restrictions of some kind for most of the (at least) 18 months most estimates suggest we'll have to wait before a vaccine is produced, tested and available in quantity (though restrictions might be lifted periodically or in certain areas depending on how things progress). Social distancing would have to be in place for 'at least 2/3' of the time (say a year). The alternative 'mitigation' strategy would only need 3 months of restrictions during the peak of the epidemic, but there'd be so many cases the NHS would be overwhelmed and a quarter of a million deaths would be predicted (about half of those we'd see if we did nothing at all).
Yes, by this criterion 'classic' SARS-CoV (though more commonly lethal if you caught it) was a failure, and was eradicated quickly. MERS-CoV, the most deadly of all, fortunately doesn't transmit that efficiently between humans, but is still out there due to multiple zoonotic events (we keep catching it from camels) - a successful dromedary virus, but a less successful human virus.
A shame we don't have an Emergency Medical Hologram Doctor to sort this all out by the end of the episode. I think a macro virus would be a bit easier to avoid when queueing up for toilet rolls, though. Couldn't you hit it with a stick or something?
Maybe we are the virus and COVID-19 is earth's immune system.
You have possibly hit the nail on the head there ,and it does sound logical ,we have italian neighbours and they are very very family conscious far more than we are
The French are reporting that the mortality rate is 50% higher for men and that's a far bigger difference than they would expect from a respiratory illness.
