That's not how it works or at least will work out with the current stats. There is a slight possibility it'll be above 3.4 as the window widens between the sick and the dead but it's more likely to fall under it when all is said and done, unless the worst happens and people are sent away from overloaded hospitals to fight it out at home or it has a second phase (I think enough time has passed to rule that out if China is being honest, hopefully) or it mutates sooner than this strain can be dealth with and perhaps starts attacking younger people more acutely but that is why there is and will be hard quaratines when the time is right. 3.4 percent is bad enough, it's 120+ million people if 50% get infected and 200-400 million ICU patients depending on which statistic is true of critical patients. That right there is system crushing, it doesn't even have to be over 1% to be a disaster or at least it doesn't matter in the scheme of things, so you worrying about 3% more means fuck all at the end of the day, It's already the situation that in that is pictured in your head at 3.4%, a disaster.

I'm curius though, where did you get this 6.06% statistic and is their anyone having conversation about it? You've peaked my interest. Where can I find this, a google search showed nothing but my countries health service advice. 

Screw it, doesn't matter what it is, if it's over 1% the situation stays the same and doesn't just worsen in degrees with higher numbers. The hard quarantines will come and go wherever and whenever they are needed, and we'll work around this through compartmentalization. Don't right off the human ingenuity just yet, we've been through worse with a lot less resources and knowledge. We'll wheather the next two years, or kore if need be. Like the DG of The WHO said, this is the first pandemic in history that can be contained successfully. And who knows, with modern computing and technology we might have a mass produced vaccine before summer 2021. If we need ICUs, we'll build them on the fly, if we need medical staff we'll take students and trian them quickly, if we need to put the economies in debt to feed people, we'll do that too and fix things up in the years following. When all is said and done, there'll be a blooming effected for all aspects of human life when we come out of it, there always is. 

Indeed. We'll make it work, we always do. Never thought of how it will effect technology, it may well usher in AR for meetings or at least adopt FaceTime more broadly which will be more efficient and convenient, that's a cool thought and yeah, maybe it'll end all that decisive political BS of the last few years. Right now though, gotta get those assholes who keep repeating "It's only the flu, bro" or "It's old old people, yo" to realise the depth of the situation, get them to cop the fuck on and meet the situation with the respect it demands cause they might as well be putting people in coffins with their physical hands for allnthe difference it makes. 

This is why the US should have gotten it's ass in gear long ago.  Look at this trajectory as compared to all other major infection nations.  This is as of today.

Not to tempt fate but it looks like the theory in Downing Street might be the right approach.

S. Korea and the UK have done the most testing relative to the outbreak size. The UK is currently increasing from 1000/day to 10000/day. Theory goes that if you plough money into testing instead of pointlessly testing temperature at airports then you'll have the most accurate numbers whereas without accurate test numbers, you'll be further along the curve than you realise.

We haven't done anything major yet except close the odd school. We kept flights going until the airlines stopped them. If you look at the S Korea curve and take into account that some woman from a crazy sect infected over 1000 people alone then their curve would be similar to the UK's and would also be getting quickly overtaken by countries with possibly underreported cases like they are doing now by Iran, Italy and the US.

Looks like all the schools could close soon

https://news.sky.com/story/coronavirus-uk-set-to-move-to-delay-phase-schools-could-close-and-major-events-cancelled-11955695

Coronavirus: PM set to escalate UK's response in a matter of hours

Boris Johnson is set to escalate the UK's coronavirus response to the next phase - meaning schools could be forced to close, major sporting events cancelled and people made to work from home.