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Originally Posted by OLD BOY
The virus does kill mainly the old and those with underlying medical conditions. Nobody said no-one else would succumb to it, but the percentage is extremely low - look at the statistics.
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Older people and those with underlying medical conditions are more susceptable to it, but that doesn't mean the virus isn't potentially deadly to everyone else. It's still killing more healthy people than anything like the flu.
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Originally Posted by OLD BOY
I don't think you understood my point about the infection rate. My point was that nobody knows at this stage whether or not that is increasing. Obviously, the number of positive tests are increasing, simply because we are carrying out more tests. If we stopped testing, the number would fall again, wouldn't it? Even Trumpy understood that.
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Errr...we do know it's increasing and it's nothing to do with doing extra tests.
The goverment posts all the data for you to look at, we're actually testing less this week compared to last week (~180,000 tests processed vs ~200,000), yet
we have had a big spike in the same time frame. How do you explain that?
And if it's not a big spike,
why is the government suddenly scrambling to increase restrictions again?
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Originally Posted by OLD BOY
I am one of those who has been pointing out for a long time now that this virus has not gone anywhere. That's why herd immunity is so important for us to achieve.
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Sweden tried that and
it didn't work. Let's not repeat history.
(Not directed at OLD BOY specifically) I have seen literally every single one of these arguments in this thread:
People need to learn to listen to the experts instead of getting their armchair medical degrees out.