Published on 12, July, 2020
Greetings, All... S'Me. Yes There is already a Thread about this, but I did not want to possibly invite whatever may happen upon this Thread onto another (innocent!) User, so, I begin this separate Thread here (a bit like My "Climate Change" Thread).
In social media this is currently a hot/constant topic, and rightly so... yet I have certain views concerning it which I was wondering about. Please try to be nice and I apologise in advance if I offend/anger anyone...
https://www.express.co.uk/news/science/1233679/coronavirus-update-symptoms-flu-2020-china-flu-deaths
...Apologies that this is from "The Daily Express", but it is about the closest to what I M'self was thinking about this 'Coro-Flu'-Thing currently going on. Social Media *loves* to highlight Death, Destruction, Suffering, Contagion, etc. etc... but I have seen VERY few articles mentioning "survival rate" rather than "death rate" about Coro-Flu... and fewer articles pointing out that it is a version of INFLUENZA.
I suffer badly from FLU Myself, and so do all of the things now recommended ("Social distancing", hand washing, etc.) as a matter of course. But now it is recommended for all to do...
In Japan, wearing face-masks is a common practice, for example.
Also, in this Thread, I am carefully wondering about the following approach... Coro-Flu is just ordinary Influenza but has an "Identifiable Tag" of sorts; and that if *all* Influenza-s were able to be tracked in this way, then all of the statistics would be similar. (Regardless of starting point.)
...Pretty much post whatever You may want, anyone... I am seeking opinion. Even ordinary Influenza is not nice at all, but it is *not necessarily fatal*, and that is what was difficult to find out about this Coro-Flu-Thing.
I've stopped my panic buying and will now just top up to keep a healthy supply. One on my worries is that although I have plenty of cereals, there could could be a fresh milk shortage in any quarantine situation. And I hate the taste of long life milk.
The toilet roll drama continues. They sell out as fast as shops fill up the shelves. I was in waitrose this afternoon. The only toilet rolls available were waitrose own brand. Is this an example of middle class snobbery, shop own brand products are not good enough to *** on?
I did however see one woman with three packs of 16 roll andrex paper in her trolley.
I'm eyeing up the pile of old newspapers that I never quite get around to throwing out. People won't dare to call me a freakish hoarder when I'm the only one without a stinky bum! Bwaahahahaaa!