Quote Originally Posted by goats View Post
Seems a bit odd to be honest.....I don’t know if people will buy it here, 8 old people died who had underlying conditions. Far more people die of other things everyday. We need to protect the old and keep the ****ers indoors, for starters driving without them clogging up the rd will be amazing....as will the supermarkets.
I can't believe people are still banging on about the "more people die of XXX every day", it's such a simplistic view and so so obvious that that's not the point:

It's not about the fatality rate, it's about the transmission rate. If you have flu (yes which kills a lot more) then you and everybody else knows pretty quickly that you have flu so you stay at home or people avoid you. With this, you can have it for 2 weeks, be in contact with hundreds of people before you have any idea, therefore it could spread through out the whole world relatively quickly, causing economic and social chaos. That's why extreme measures are being taken. Stop saying more people get killed by other stuff, it's not that that's the issue, no one ever said it was!