Coronavirus Part II - Its arrived - We're Doomed!!! See OP for Mod warnings

sonofenoch wrote: »

Lot of media led hysteria, seasonal flu kills thousands in this country every year.

Tell the Chinese they didn't need to bother helping out the Wuhan regional medical facilities then. They should have just let the infection run its course.
The Russians didn't need to close their border with China.
Tell the French to cancel their order for personal protective equipment.
Tell the Italians to stop their efforts in northern Italy.
etc etc etc

Those actions had nothing to do with media hysteria and those actions are on a whole other level to anything any government has ever done with seasonal flu, or diabetes.
In light of that, it shows how meaningless the statistics you quoted are.
This is a new outbreak.

sonofenoch wrote: »

Lot of media led hysteria, seasonal flu kills thousands in this country every year.



80,000 People are Sick with Coronavirus at the Moment - of which 77,000 are in China.

This means that if you are not from China then this should remove 96% of your worry.


81% of the Cases are MILD
14% of the Cases are MODERATE
and only 5% of the Cases are CRITICAL



if you are under 50 years of age, and not living in China, you are more likely to win the lottery which is a 1 in 30,000,000



the death rate for the people UNDER 50 years of age is only 0.02%



On the worst day so far 108 people in CHINA died of Coronavirus.
BUT, on the same day
26,283 people died of Cancer
24,641 people died of Heart Disease
4,300 people died of Diabetes





Furthermore Mosquitoes kill 2,740 people every day, and Snakes kill 137 people every day.

i guess the difference is that we don't expect the snake population of the world to exponentially double every 6 days...

Cupatae wrote: »

Why are you so ridiculously over the top, what was posted was balanced and gave comparisons there was no mention of it wasn't serious just no need for the hysteria. Obviously it needs to be contained but people need to use there brains aswell and clam abit.

The way you post and talk about stuff one would be nearly expecting something akin to the Walking dead in the next couple of hours.

Take a few deep breaths for urself.

I referenced the actions of major governments in response to this outbreak. I didn't make up any of that, if I did please challenge that. If you think the Chinese, Russians etc were hysterical in anything they did, challenge that.
The Chinese DID lock down one of their provinces.
The Russians DID close their border with China.
etc etc

But how can quoting their actions in relation to the seriousness with which they approach coronavirus versus the flu be hysteria? How is it lacking in calmness? How is it over the top?

The way you have challenged my post on the contrary it appears you don't want to face up to the reality of the threat this disease represents UNLESS major action is taken by governments.

Comparing the deaths from diabetes to a new infectious disease is wrong on so many levels it has to be challenged. They are entirely different categories of disease any comparison of them is meangingless and ludicrous and dangerous and wrong.

Cupatae wrote: »

Imagine cancer got this sort of global reporting with death by death updates,maps, ect... imagine how dramatic it would look.

when is the last time there was a cancer rush to A&E? one of the questions is how will any health service deal with thousands of extra pneumonia cases all at the same time?

Nobody is scaremongering, the figures coming out of Italy do all the scaremongering themselves.

Osborne wrote: »

You're also saying 45 million people will die and Norway is claiming 25% of the population will die.

No, I was saying that others have said it. Those figures were for the number of people who might be infected in an unstoppable pandemic. 'only' 2% of those would be expected to die.