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I'm very much not a supporter of the current government, but I have to say that I'm impressed by their measured response. It's infectious, we are all going to g

I'm very much not a supporter of the current government, but I have to say that I'm impressed by their measured response. It's infectious, we are all going to get it (even those that hide) so let's get on with life, try to slow the spread to keep pressure off the NHS at the peak for sure, but enough already with the flapping. Seems to be a fairly common view in London at least, still hard to get a seat in the pubs on a Saturday night.

mytailorisrich 7y ago
Even if we go with this strategy, pressure won't be kept off the NHS and they need to start building extra hospitals extensively right now: Maybe 10% of cases are serious from what I read (rough estimate). If their plan is for 40 millions of us to get this then this means 4 million people in need of hospital treatment. They would need to "flatten the curve" over several years for the NHS to be able to absorb this. Apparently the UK currently has about 6.6 ICU beds per 100,000 people, i.e. less than 5,000 ICU beds in total.
rasz 7y ago
Good luck in two weeks.
- jjgreen 7y ago
  Thanks, and yourself ...
  - rasz 7y ago
    One week so far, 56 dead yesterday alone https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/uk/ https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/uk/
    - jjgreen 7y ago
      And there was me thinking your good wishes were sincere, instead they were sarcastic and nasty. Oh well ...
      - rasz 7y ago
        I was realistic. We are at two weeks now and 260 new deaths yesterday. Its unimaginable how stupid UK "plan" was. Btw I read an interesting conspiracy theory today. Dominic Cummings https://news.sky.com/video/prime-ministers-chief-adviser-in-a-hurry-after-his-boss-reveals-he-has-coronavirus-11964540 https://news.sky.com/video/prime-ministers-chief-adviser-in-... , author of herd immunity aka >500K dead at minimum plan spend 10 years in Russia in the nineties. Russia isnt all that fond of UK.

mytailorisrich 7y ago

Even if we go with this strategy, pressure won't be kept off the NHS and they need to start building extra hospitals extensively right now: Maybe 10% of cases are serious from what I read (rough estimate). If their plan is for 40 millions of us to get this then this means 4 million people in need of hospital treatment. They would need to "flatten the curve" over several years for the NHS to be able to absorb this. Apparently the UK currently has about 6.6 ICU beds per 100,000 people, i.e. less than 5,000 ICU beds in total.

rasz 7y ago

Good luck in two weeks.

jjgreen 7y ago
Thanks, and yourself ...
- rasz 7y ago
  One week so far, 56 dead yesterday alone https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/uk/ https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/uk/
  - jjgreen 7y ago
    And there was me thinking your good wishes were sincere, instead they were sarcastic and nasty. Oh well ...
    - rasz 7y ago
      I was realistic. We are at two weeks now and 260 new deaths yesterday. Its unimaginable how stupid UK "plan" was. Btw I read an interesting conspiracy theory today. Dominic Cummings https://news.sky.com/video/prime-ministers-chief-adviser-in-a-hurry-after-his-boss-reveals-he-has-coronavirus-11964540 https://news.sky.com/video/prime-ministers-chief-adviser-in-... , author of herd immunity aka >500K dead at minimum plan spend 10 years in Russia in the nineties. Russia isnt all that fond of UK.