Derek27 wrote: ↑Sun Oct 04, 2020 9:11 am
... not take the virus seriously, catch it, recover and continue to claim it's just the flu.
Well we need the data. Edit. Found this
https://newseu.cgtn.com/news/2020-09-26 ... index.html
It certainly looks like it’s quite problematic for the 80+ with comorbidities of smoking, type 2 diabetes, heart disease or compromised immunity.
Below 80 looks a very different proposition.
The news and analysis on virulence, morbidity by age etc seems to have dropped away? We are in hyper vigilance mode as if this is SARS-cov1 which is reasonably lethal or Ebola which is 90% lethal.
Last data I saw showed it’s about three times as lethal as the flu. But that was months ago. Surely there is way more data now? Overall mortality in Australia is down (coz we are restricting activity).
And why can’t we develop much better responses now, prioritising the elderly and those with high risk conditions. As one public servant in Australia (who resigned over the incompetence of the government response said) “we are waving around a hammer at a swarm of flies”.
