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Topic History of: Quarantine over; Lockdown? What lockdown? Max. showing the last 5 posts - (Last post first)
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Mr Flintstone
Yep. If they had stuck to the basic advice (wash your hands, isolate if you have symptoms, stay away from at risk relatives) things would have gone a lot better. They could have simply paid wages for a two week period where a person was in isolation. For sure it would have cost a lot less.
Wyot
Septurian wrote: JK2006 wrote: So stop behaving as though it's Ebola, politicians.
Correct, because it's killed a lot more than Ebola.
Largely because Ebola wasn't nearly as contagious.
The point is clearly that ebola has a death rate of up to 90% and C19 currently 0% (that doesn't mean 0 people) in most places.
Yes C19 is highly contagious but highly unlikely to kill you.
The media behave as if it is.
Septurian
JK2006 wrote: So stop behaving as though it's Ebola, politicians.
Correct, because it's killed a lot more than Ebola.
Largely because Ebola wasn't nearly as contagious.
JK2006
Yes personally I've found Long Tail quite tricky to cope with so I think some of the consequences of having it mildly can be less trivial than at first thought.
Carlos
I see you've reduced it to "a trivial virus for 85% of people" ?