Franglais:
Truckulent:
Breath of fresh air coming in here. Good old fashioned common sense with a healthy dose of cynicism.
Totally sick of reading tossers on Facebook that believe every single world they hear from the government and read online. This situation is like flight MH370… Whatever is going on, it certainly isn’t what we’re being told…
The recovery rate for Covid, taking age, risk groups etc into account is now estimated to be around 98.5%-99%. Which does rather beg the question : apart from the strain on our creaking gate of a health service, why is all the scaremongering going on?
The figures for flu deaths are far more sobering than even the worst predictions for Covid. So why is it worse to die from Covid than influenza? The current state of utter panic just doesn’t make sense…
Unless Boris & the other muppets know something they aren’t telling us…
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“This situation is like flight MH370”.
Apart from, not being aviation related, not having an unkown cause, not having dead bodies, not having ongoing effects, not being in an enclosed place, yeah, might be similar.
“The recovery rate for Covid, taking age, risk groups etc into account is now estimated to be around 98.5%-99%”
UK population 66m. Assuming not everyone is infected and taking your lower 1% mortality rate we have 500,000 deaths.
“The figures for flu deaths are far more sobering than even the worst predictions for Covid.”
ONS figures say deaths with flu associations were in winter of 2018/19 under 1,700.
But that was a very low figure, 20,000 might be more typical.
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20,000 vs 500,000
Firstly, well done for misunderstanding so spectacularly!
The death rate is 1-2% of people who actually catch it… Not the population in general. So currently 1-2% of 42,000 not 66 million. That’s about 840, not 500,000. Sure, the numbers will keep rising and it’s good that things are being done to take pressure off the NHS. But in 2015 28, 000 died of flu in the UK alone. And these were deaths as a direct result of contracting flu with no underlying issues. 98% of those dying of Covid have underlying issues. The actual number of otherwise healthy people dying of Covid is lower than flu.
The fact is that for those who are healthy you are no more likely to die of Covid than you are flu. Neither is good, but no one panics about flu, simply because you don’t hear about it. So why don’t you? Folk say it’s because there’s a vaccine. Mm. But that doesn’t stop it killing thousands every year. Which is even more scary when you think about it…
The comparison with MH370 referred to the mass hype and cover up, not the fact the two incidents were the same…[emoji16]
Finally…
I confidently predict a rise in taxes after all this…
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