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vivster said:
John2290 said:

Wow. I never thought I'd see you in line with Trump on something. My respect. 

I'm worried gor two people in my life who will be warrented a death sentence from this virus so nothing would change. It also doesn't matter about the death rate, if it was much lower the problem doesn't just go away as it's still exponential and critical patients are still going to over load the system at some point as they pile up through the year even if it's half of the expected 10% or a quarter or an eight. We've seen now in Italy how little stress a well managed medical system can take and it is very little. You cut the numbers down tenfold and they still pile up over time with the rate and breath of infection. 

Why do you ask?

The health care system is overwhelmed not because of the severity of the virus but because of the forced and unproportional reaction to it.

You're German. Your deaths and serious/critical cases are nearly 20 times lower than Spain and France even though you have roughly the same amount of infected. What's your secret?

SvennoJ said:


The measures in Europe seem to have some effect at least. It looks like the growth of new cases is slowing down a bit. It's still growing on average but heading towards linear growth instead of exponential. Just close the airports, people with mild symptoms can spread it on as well without even realizing it. Traveling over the world is practically playing Russian roulette with those over 50 and those working in healthcare. Chances are small but use a conference call for business and go without that far away vacation for a while. The damage is far greater in the long run.

Nearly 50K active (detected) cases atm, 33K outside China spread over 118 countries.

This is what you risk bringing to your country when you travel



Airline traffic has gone down a lot already, but the planes still need to move lol, this world. (They're fixing that now)
https://www.euronews.com/2020/03/10/coronavirus-eu-moves-to-stop-ghost-flights-amid-covid-19-turbulence

What measures? Spain looks set to be another hotspot. They overtook France and Germany out of nowhere. Norway, Sweden and Denmark are all seeing huge % increases. Norway's already helped knock the UK out of the top 10 and Sweden and Denmark look set to overtake us if we don't see a big increase soon.

The chart in the tweet is from 3 days ago. France, Germany and Spain are now all in the 1600-1800 range where Italy was.



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