Coronavirus (COVID-19) Discussion Thread

[LurkerJ]

Eagle367 said:

LurkerJ said:

Hate these "number of cases" counters when most people get mild symptoms and most of us don't get tested. Not even NHS staff are being tested at the moment. The confirmed number of cases don't reflect real numbers and it's utterly meaningless to even report on. What's the effing point?

And it just baffles me that we all these western governments are caught with their pants pulled down when the virus is called COVID 2019, why the hell did you wait until 2020 to realize you don't have enough ventilators and beds? it's all so odd... The people, the politicians and the governments had seen the signs of what's going to happen and no sufficient actions were taken, and no one wants to bear the consequences, such a disgusting display of humane childishness entitlement and hysteria.

Oh and when did China become credible enough to actually believe their numbers? When they admittedly withheld and actively silenced health care providers for trying to speak out. Odd.

Happy camping though, introverts are loving life these days

Calm down and take a deep breath. The confirmed cases give us the trendline of how things are going, if not the actual number. They are very useful in identifying hotspots as well. 

And very useless in calculating the mortality rate and other rates but everyone's doing it and the media is spreading panic across the globe using flawed stats. Surely we can agree the masses aren't looking at these numbers and saying "oh that's not an accurate number but it's useful in identifying hotspots", puh lease. 

Oh and I am very calm, with post-covid immunity and all.