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Originally Posted by OLD BOY
And yet up to 28,000 die in a year in the UK from seasonal influenza and we hear very little about that. We have a way to go before we reach that figure.
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The difference is that not everybody gets the flu and certainly not as once, so the burden on the health service is manageable.
The problem with COVID19 is that anyone that comes into contact with the virus will get it. So even though it will still kill a fairly small percentage of the people that are infected, a smal percentage of everybody is a lot of people and because there is no natural immunity in the population if everybody gets it rapidly it will overwhelm the health service and those that may have survived COVID19 with medical care wont, as they wont be able to access any, because it will be full.
It really is, very, very simple and easy to understand. All that needs to be done is to slow the spread.
Once we get the "have you had it" tests, that will improve things.