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Originally posted by minestrone View PostHonest to God. There is a whole section of the country that needs a good old fashioned "pull yourself together" slapping.
At least 30% of the adults will either continue to work from home or elderly who won’t be going out as before - with such large drop in demand it won’t be possible to keep low margin businesses alive with their fixed labour and other costs.Comment
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Originally posted by Old Greg View PostThe risk is reduced by having the country closed.
Mor Ons are complaining that infections are low and demand to open up the economy - well US did that in May and look at them now.
If there was very effective therapeutic and very good testing (15-30 mins and 95% sensitivity), then situation would be different, but neither are available (fast testing will begin to appear soon tho)Last edited by AtW; 15 August 2020, 11:57.Comment
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Originally posted by AtW View PostIt may surprise you but there are whole sections of the country who don’t want to be slapped to death by Covid.
At least 30% of the adults will either continue to work from home or elderly who won’t be going out as before - with such large drop in demand it won’t be possible to keep low margin businesses alive with their fixed labour and other costs.Comment
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Originally posted by minestrone View PostON average 200 people a day get admitted for constipation.
And constipation is not highly infectiousComment
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Originally posted by AtW View PostI think with current treatment 20-30% of people admitted to hospital with Covid don’t make it, many of those who make it will have serious disabilities.
And constipation is not highly infectiousComment
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Originally posted by minestrone View PostI can imagine you have been admitted to hospital with constipation.Comment
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Originally posted by AtW View PostExactly.
Mor Ons are complaining that infections are low and demand to open up the economy - well US did that in May and look at them now.
If there was very effective therapeutic and very good testing (15-30 mins and 95% sensitivity), then situation would be different, but neither are available (fast testing will begin to appear soon tho)Comment
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Originally posted by minestrone View PostI think you just made that up there.
41k dead, 316k confirmed cases - that already give >10% mortality, but not all confirmed cases were admitted to hospital -
Coronavirus (COVID-19) in the UK
Total admissions to hospitals 133k - 20% of that would be 26k, cba finding exact deaths in hospitals but it won’t be far off that number.Comment
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That is the problem, you have low information people like AtW walking about thinking if you get COVID and go to hospital you are 30% likely to die.
6 months of blanket news on the topic and he cant even offer basic risk probabilities.
What he needs is some rectal diazepam, zanax and more time out the spunk dungeon.Comment
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