Yeah this is the key point. The virus is here and a lot of us are gonna get it, and the vast majority of us will be fine. But we have a duty to the people who won’t be fine.
It will be complicated but it’s not an impossible situation. The schools close every summer and society doesn’t collapse.
Thats literally the case for any virus ever. Panic and hysteria wont do this. We have systems in place for this, we use them every year. Unfortunately because the media has got the public in a fenzy, the public are pushing the government to take unnecessary actions.
Just wash your hands, its simple really.
I’m not panicking. The public aren’t pushing enough, they’re mostly reacting the way you are.
True but daycare centres are open over those periods.
Our school is open over summer as a privately run day care centre.
I assume those won’t run if the schools are closed?
Tell that to the people panic buying items in bulk all over the place. All of this is an overreaction. Things will be fine.
They’re bulk buying out of selfishness. The same way they will continue to socialise and go to the football, because they only care about themselves.
That’s true. It’s not going to be easy, I know.
Reduce social contact drastically. Italy and China went into full lockdown to stop the spread. Imagine if they’d done that sooner.
From what I’ve read, closing everything for two months that isn’t societally critical is the absolute best route we could take right now.
It’s not that they don’t get it, it’s that they don’t seem to suffer particularly with it. They’re going to be the group that spread it most whilst having the least symptoms.
Completely agree. But this is also about people who are most vulnerable being sensible about managing risk. If you are in your seventies with a heart condition then you probably shouldn’t be spending the evening at the theatre in close proximity to hundreds of people and traveling there by public transport.
That doesn’t necessarily mean that we should stop all public events.
The issue is that people either overreact or think they are invulnerable and then complain about it afterwards. I have no sympathy with the people criticising BA for cancelling flights from Italy back to the UK when they chose to fly out to a red zone area without considering the risks.
Agreed. But if you are planning to visit your 70-something grandma to talk about her heart condition, you shouldn’t be in that theatre either.
Course it does.
My dad’s particular at risk due to a heart condition. He can stay in but what if I catch it at the pub and pass it to him without realising, what if my son catches it at school?
Its like vaccinations but on a much more immediate and pressing scale; All those idiots that don’t get them because their kids aren’t high risk put those that are in much greater danger.
Defo taking any new reason to interact with people less, haha 
I’m so lonely…
Jk.
Corona is somewhat serious, but I kinda have trust that the medical advisorboard of the government aren’t morons and well, give good advice.
Honestly i’m surprised everyone here survived cholera, plague, meningitis, SARS, ebola, yellow fever, malaria, foot and mouth, measles, zika virus or any of the other widespread diseases we have all died from in the past 30 years ¯_(ツ)_/¯
Step 1 to survive: don’t be old or have any immune system issues.
Genius.
Are you saying, because humanity survived all of those, they were all handled well?
Are you saying they couldn’t have been handled better?
Are you seriously saying that we shouldn’t try to reduce the number of cases?
And unless you’re evil, don’t risk infecting those people.
I’m saying they were handled and sickness and disease are a part of human life. There is literally no situation where anything couldnt have been “handled better” but demanding perfection is silly, because we are human and humans make mistakes.
I’m saying the whole thing is overblown and we should stop overreacting, you’re deciding that i’m saying “i hope everyone dies of covid-19”.
I’m not demanding perfection, nor am I saying that.
Aren’t we all a little dead inside?
Seriously tho dude, wtf, relax a little
That doesn’t mean that I was saying you were saying that.
As an example: tomorrow I had an opticians appointment. Nothing essential, just a contact lens trial. I have to get the bus. So I cancelled it. It’s a minor inconvenience, but I might have the virus and if I gave it to one other person, when I didn’t have to, I’d never forgive myself.
And if I don’t have it, and picked it up while I was out, I could pass it on. Again, not a chance I’m willing to take.
Because even if the person we infect is totally fine, they infect two people. And those people infect four others. And they infect eight more. And they infect another sixteen. And one of those needs to go to intensive care.
Season flu is different, because those at-risk people have had shots. If I infect someone who works in a care home, it’s like a bomb going off.
