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RedDwarf 1881 wrote: ↑Tue Feb 25, 2020 7:12 pm I think that the spread of this virus is going to be unstoppable. It will end up being a pandemic .

Thor wrote: ↑Tue Feb 25, 2020 7:23 pm I was listening to Farage on LBC and he started to talk about the Coronavirus and if you’d just come back skiing from Italy blah blah blah. I remembered a friend of mine his son went skiing in Italy so I phoned him up to see how his boy was and he said he’s fine, some are in quarantine however, most were fine and ok including his boy. The school has kept them all off school today as well, I guess just in case. He also said another local school was right in the centre off it and apparently it was mayhem, kids taking themselves to hospital, leaving them on the slopes while they dealt with other kids.

Thor wrote: ↑Tue Feb 25, 2020 7:23 pm I was listening to Farage on LBC and he started to talk about the Coronavirus and if you’d just come back skiing from Italy blah blah blah. I remembered a friend of mine his son went skiing in Italy so I phoned him up to see how his boy was and he said he’s fine, some are in quarantine however, most were fine and ok including his boy. The school has kept them all off school today as well, I guess just in case. He also said another local school was right in the centre off it and apparently it was mayhem, kids taking themselves to hospital, leaving them on the slopes while they dealt with other kids.

Adz wrote: ↑Tue Feb 25, 2020 10:31 pm The last pandemic was swine flu in 09, who was bothered about that?

RedO wrote: ↑Tue Feb 25, 2020 9:32 pm It’s almost unbelievable, isn’t it.

NuneatonO's wrote: ↑Wed Feb 26, 2020 9:13 am According to figures maintained by the World Health Organisation, around 2,700 people have died due to Coronavirus.

Meanwhile, it also reports that anually, there's anything between 290,000 - 650,000 deaths from respiratory diseases - linked to seasonal flu.

I guess the media just can't generate such mass hysteria from a simple flu headline these days?

Prestige Worldwide wrote: ↑Wed Feb 26, 2020 9:32 am

NuneatonO's wrote: ↑Wed Feb 26, 2020 9:13 am According to figures maintained by the World Health Organisation, around 2,700 people have died due to Coronavirus.

Meanwhile, it also reports that anually, there's anything between 290,000 - 650,000 deaths from respiratory diseases - linked to seasonal flu.

I guess the media just can't generate such mass hysteria from a simple flu headline these days?

There are vaccines available for flu, at the moment there isnt one for coronovirus.

Flu death rate 0.1%
Coronovirus death rate 2%

Prestige Worldwide wrote: ↑Wed Feb 26, 2020 9:36 am And facts.