Coronavirus

Did you begin worrying about the quality of the education your daughter is receiving when you read that?

Given the amount of bared bums in schools on these shelves it would appear to be pretty standard.

In other news, Brits are, as of this evening, not supposed to leave home except for really essential trips. I imagine that if stopped by a policeman and you explained that there was a naughty bottom which you were on your way to spank that would be a perfectly acceptable essential trip.

It's certainly always been suggested that a lot of Conservative MPs like to visit dominatrixes so I think in England that would be regarded as essential.

njrick
(Not sure why this topic is in the "Storyboard" sub-forum)

It's up here because the idiot (me) that put it up didn't know how else to do it and get people on this site to see it.

I started a long planed work sabbatical at virtually the same time restrictions went into effect and of course two days latter I caught the damn thing, from my brother no less! I don't know where he got it. As far as the bug goes, unless you already have one foot in the grave it's much ado about nothing. Five days of mild cold symptoms and it was over. I've had common colds that were much worse. I have to think if the media and the politicians had behaved more responsibly instead of chasing ratings and trying to make capital the whole world wouldn't have completely and unnecessarily lost it's freaking mind over this thing!

I'm afraid this is utter nonsense and there is no shortage of actual evidence to back that assertion up. Yes, if you're lucky you might get only mild symptoms but equally you might be struck down with viral pneumonitis which could well kill you.

Just be glad it was like that for you, I've got Type 2 Diabetes and I've had a stroke, so I really don't want this thing, I'm living my life, but I'm also taking precautions.

Well, unless you're over 80 and have untreated conditions including at least one of high blood-pressure, diabetes, a cardiovascular disease, cancer, or a chronic pulmonary disease and is an active smoker, it is likely that you'll be among the 95% of the infected that are only mildly to partially affected, much reminding of a common cold, so it makes sense if it didn't become you. At present, the mortality rate in Sweden among confirmed infected patients is 1.6%, which is expected to drop as more people are tested. The average age of diseased patients is 82 years. The youngest was 58, but people as young as 21 has required intensive care before they recovered. Average age of diseased in Italy is 79 years. There are no recorded cases of anyone younger than 30 in Sweden or Italy having died from a Corona infection, but apparently four in Spain. In Spain, even if they have been hit hard, so far only 2.5% of the infected patients have required intensive care. The youngest hospitalized in Spain is a nine-year-old. As of yesterday there have been 18,923 confirmed diseased worldwide in Corona, out of 423,670 tested positive for infection, giving a mortality rate of 4.5%. The notably higher mortality rate worldwide than in Sweden is most likely related to the number of tested patients being limited compared to the size of the population. South Korea has had one of the most extensive testing campaigns, having covered more than 300,000 citizens (as of March 19th). With 91 dead out of roughly 8500 confirmed infected, the mortality rate has been less than 1.1%. Average annual mortality rate for a "normal" flu in Sweden is about 0.1% of the total population, corresponding to around 5% of the confirmed infected patients who are under treatment, but usually only patients with severe conditions or who seek medical help are tested, which inflates the figure. Of Corona, we don't know for certain yet, be careful.

The thing you really have to keep in mind is that all of these stats are based on KNOWN cases. Given the mildness of the symptoms I'd bet there are at least a hundred unreported cases for ever reported case which makes these percentages much lower. When the final analysis is done I think it's going to be clear that this thing was never even close to being the Black Death of the 21st century that we were told it was and when that happens a lot of people are going to have a lot of very difficult explaining to do.

There was a WHO chart published last week by an Aussie doctor which shows that Wuhanvirus is 17th on the list of daily deaths.

TB kills 3000 per day
Hepatitis kills 2500 per day
Pneumonia kills 2000 per day
HIV Aids still kills 2000 per day
Maleria kills 2000 per day

On 9th March the daily deaths from Wuhanvirus was 56.

I can't post a link but if you google Dr Shaun Canning in AU you might find it.