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Originally Posted by jfman
The thing is in 2013-14 I assume 11,000 people died from flu across the entire winter. With Coronavirus that many have died in Italy in just four weeks.
If we don't get to that stage, and I pray we don't, it'll be because of the success of a significant amount of Government intervention around social distancing, working from home, closing businesses and investment in healthcare. Not because Coronavirus is "just a flu".
11,000 people die of flu when we do nothing, more will likely die in CV related circumstances despite throwing the kitchen sink at it.
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Let’s take yesterday’s 259 deaths in 24 hours. 13 people from this total, had no underlying health conditions. That’s 13 people dying unexpectedly, but what about the rest, people with COPD, can live for years, but they get this, it floors them and eventually kills them, should we treat this as an unexpected death?