[AR] Re: ... Coronavirus
- From: Peter Fairbrother <peter@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: arocket@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 22 Mar 2020 06:58:09 +0000
On 21/03/2020 21:28, Anthony Cesaroni wrote:
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/history-of-pandemics-deadliest/
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/infection-trajectory-flattening-the-covid19
-curve/
Yes. The US is doing too little, too late. A half-hearted response which
will get a lot of people killed.
But be glad you are not in the UK, where the policy is to let over 80%
of the population get COVID when herd immunity might kick in. We are not
trying to stop it, just slow it down. What other countries will think
about that I don't know.
UK population, I assume US population is similar, consists of 1/4
children 0-21, 1/2 adults 20-60, 1/4 mature over 60.
Children will be okay, mostly. And thank goodness for that. If cases are
equally spread, with good healthcare 0.1 to 0.3% of adults will die,
that's 35,000 to 100,000 people in the UK. Mature, about 3% at best,
probably more - at least 510,000 people.
Yet they are not trying to stop the epidemic and limit total cases.
Instead they are trying to skew the cases towards the young and adult,
away from the mature - they may save a couple of hundred thousand that way.
But they are not trying to stop the epidemic and limit the total number
of cases, as China, Korea, even Iran have done, to a thousand or so deaths.
80% of the population as cases vs less than 0.1% of the population as
cases. And 350,000 unnecessary deaths.
It is criminal.
If possible make sure the US does not follow that example.
Peter Fairbrother
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