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Originally Posted by Mr K

Yeah, bleeding scientists, they and their evidence know nothing. Bloke down the pub knows better. They'll be telling us the climate is changing next.... Its all political correctness gone mad I should think.

Some depressing science stuff I've put in spoiler.

Spoiler: 

Exponentials (which is how epidemics work) are very difficult to project without perfect data and modelling because slight errors quickly become huge differences. As such, predictions on total deaths are probably going to be way off. The current death-rate is probably between 0.5% and 3% given a paper someone told me about, so the total deaths will be limited to how well you contain it.