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Originally Posted by OLD BOY
The point being made is there is an alternative to a total lockdown that would ruin the economy. Why isolate everyone when most people will escape the impact of this virus unscathed?
You are just running with this scaremongering mantra.
Hey, do you realise that if infections are running at 500 per hundred thousand, that works out as 5 per thousand? And per hundred, that’s 0.5!
Go figure and start thinking for yourself.
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Got a link for that figure, please?
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Originally Posted by Carth
Population of London is around 9 million.
If infections are running at 500 per 100,000, my rough calculation gives 45,000 infected people in London.
Apparently only 10 to 15 percent of those infected will need to be hospitalised . . meaning 4,500 people need a hospital bed for Covid alone, never mind all the other illnesses and injuries that also require hospital treatment.
My math could be wrong . . I still have a couple of bottles to finish off  |
The "500 per 100k" is a ongoing amount, not a static figure.
For instance, my Mother in law has been in hospital with covid for nearly 4 weeks...
So, every day/week (depending on where those figures came from), it could be another 4.5k needing another hospital bed.
Just looked up the stats for General/Acute hospital beds in London - in November (latest figures on the website), they had around 19k beds in total.
https://www.england.nhs.uk/statistic...nal-DE5WC.xlsx