Quote Originally Posted by Gofer Blue View Post
I can't help feeling that we in the UK are in the phoney war stage. I presume we Brits are not genetically that different from folk in Italy yet we are mostly going about our day-to-day business as usual when Italy is in virtual lockdown. I think we must surely be on the cusp of a sudden exponential increase in the number of cases of coronavirus? Are we just incredibly lucky or is there some inherent immunity that most of us possess?
Quote Originally Posted by gabbsthenewt View Post
We should be shutting things down and socially distancing now and anyone that doesn't think so can fight me.
Quote Originally Posted by lardy View Post
Interesting read with some good graphs. It backdates the cases the authorities knew about at the time with the actual numbers, along with some other stuff. One big conclusion is


Countries that are prepared will see a fatality rate of ~0.5% (South Korea) to 0.9% (rest of China).
Countries that are overwhelmed will have a fatality rate between ~3%-5%

https://medium.com/@tomaspueyo/coron...e-f4d3d9cd99ca
These 3 new about what we needed to do in advance of our own Government it seems. And that's just looking at page 3 (10th - 11th March).