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.
My daughter has a cough and a raised temperature, and has been in contact with a boy at school who is now being tested for suspected coronavirus. She is therefore at home, and the whole family is going to have to self isolate for at least a week. Ordinarily, I would have just given her Calpol and let her have a few days off if necessary, and the rest of us would have carried on as normal. I have no idea whether or not this is "the one", or just some other cold or flu virus. Because "ordinary" colds are so frequent, surely there will be a lot of cases where no-one ever knows which it was?
Since only people with severe symptoms are getting tested, how can anyone be sure how prevalent the virus really is? I'm a lot more worried than I was now, and would welcome comments from anyone who thinks I'm being daft. Thank you.
No one knows. Eventually they will have to test everyone to work out who has had it, who hastnt, who needs the vaccine, who has immunity. The thing is, they are out of their depth. No one has seen anything like this in their lifetime, in fact maybe since the Spanish Flu of 1918. So its a play it by ear. Probably by the weekend I would expect all schools to be on shutdown. They already have in Northern ireland, Scotland and Wales.
But life goes on.