Coronavirus

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    'A Very Serious Situation': WHO Says Coronavirus Cases Are Rising In Europe Again.

    https://www.npr.org/2020/09/17/9…

    • but this time european health care facilities are prepared, know better treatments and how to protect what survived the first wave.uan
    • waves are of deaths, not cases. and our only proof of them is flu virus pandemics over the last 200 years. particularly the spanish flu, which could have beenkingsteven
    • 2 strains of flu and didn't cause excess deaths in the elderly (the peak of excess deaths was 35 y/o) so there is no scientific basis for these fears.kingsteven
    • also, the uk has been at > 3000 cases p/d for well over 2 weeks now (avg. infection to death is 14 days) and deaths are still averaging < 20 p/dkingsteven
    • could go up far higher and i'll look like a cunt if i don't say it's better to be safe than sorry but i've read many papers on pandemic modelling by this pointkingsteven
    • and a load of them predicted exactly this... yet the UK govt. and CDC still clinging on to the model that was done with 13 y/o undocumented code that has beenkingsteven
    • used in previous pandemics (swineflu: predicted 65,000 deaths, actual 500 deaths) but sure, i bet it's spot on this time round.kingsteven
    • More than health care facilities being prepared, this time the nurse giving palliative care prob has antibodies from the first time round...and theres nokingsteven
    • shortage of ventilators because they dont help other than to spread viral RNA around wards... if a second wave happens and causes as many deaths covid = flyingkingsteven
    • https://youtu.be/XO8…kingsteven
    • ^LolPhanLo
    • That video isn't far off a real news report these daysPhanLo
    • i've been calling it flying aids amongst friends for a while now. the sensationalism around covid is just so rife i imagine the psychological effects of thekingsteven
    • reporting are probably going to cause some sort of generational psychosis on our generation that the imminent threat of death in the cold war did to boomerskingsteven
    • a just makes you realise there's a lot of alan partridges in the world :Dkingsteven

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