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.
The madness continues.
The toilet tissues at my local Waitrose have been sold out for days.
And now at Morrisson's, people have been filling up trolleys with everything, then they find massive delays and queues at checkouts, so they dump the full trolleys and walk out of the store.
I find the world-wide obsession with loo-roll utterly perplexing. A single roll usually lasts me well over a week, so even scaling that up for a household of gluttons with several kids, I just cannot fathom why so many people think they need a trolley-full for a fortnight quarantine - it's not as if raging squits is a symptom of the virus. I fully expect it to become a classic case-study for sociologists researching human herd-mentality.