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The Chinese flu outbreak .......wonder why there's panic ?
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Civil war then, if some Chinese students don't spread the love.
If there is a pandemic it could cause economic breakdown globally.
Who is going to go to a football match or pop concert if they think they could end up in intensive care or dead.
The streets will be empty , and what about schools ,some kid starts sneezing and parents will panic and not send their kids to school.
Who is going to go to a football match or pop concert if they think they could end up in intensive care or dead.
The streets will be empty , and what about schools ,some kid starts sneezing and parents will panic and not send their kids to school.
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If you do, you won't complain.
Organised society will break down if the people who run the waterworks and power stations stop going to work, or if food and petrol distribution stops, or if the police stay at home with their families.
Since 1990 the emergency structure has been closed down and sold off. We have no Civil Defence. Our armed forces have shrunk like a woolly vest on a boil wash.
With a bit of luck it will spread slow enough that the survivors will regain health quickly enough to go back to work.
Care homes for old people will be hard hit. The carers will stop going in and the residents will go down like flies.
Hospitals and GPs will be no help. There isn't enough capacity for even a ordinary flu epidemic, when the staff are mostly alive and doing their jobs.
I can see the benefit of the Chinese approach, building "hospitals" where you can deliver ill people to get them off the streets and out of the houses. Some of them may get better. We currently have no drugs and no vaccines so we all can do is collect the ill people and get them out of the way.
The young, fit ones have a fair chance of recovery and, assuming they now have immunity, can take over the necessary jobs that are unfilled.
if you had a thousand-bed hospital, fifty thousand patients, and no treatments available, who would you put in a bed, and who would you dump in the pit outside the back door? Do you think it will be different in Britain?
Do we all know what "Triage" means?
Yes I fell for the con
Everybody makes mistakes, intelligent people learn from them. Others just stay ignorant.
You will fade away once brexit goes pear shaped.
But some other pandemic would have, eventually.
Our health service couldn't cope with 10% of the population being sick, especially when there is no treatment available. We would just have to wait for (most of) them to get better, preferably staying in their own homes.
However the country could cope with a 4% fatality rate, provided it was fairly gradual and there was not mass panic.
However the country could cope with a 4% fatality rate, provided it was fairly gradual and there was not mass panic.
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That really is the only sensible approach if it did spread. But people would still need treatment and monitoring. Complications can come on quick and there'll still be no space in the hospitals.
What we don't need is people panicking and going to A&E before they are really unwell, and spreading it to all the elderly and kids in hospital, and also spreading it to nurses and doctors.
It wouldn't do them any good to go to hospital, really.
There is no treatment.
I suppose they can be kept warm and hydrated.
A vaccine might be available in about 6 months.
No doubt researchers are searching for an existing drug that helps.
There is no treatment.
I suppose they can be kept warm and hydrated.
A vaccine might be available in about 6 months.
No doubt researchers are searching for an existing drug that helps.
4,524 confirmed cases in China today at the morning count. It was 2,908 last night.
106 deaths
https://www.ft.com/content/cc2be982-417d-11ea-bdb5-169ba7be433d
"Researchers at University of Hong Kong forecast the virus would spread further. The university estimated that at least 25,630 people in Wuhan were showing symptoms of the disease and about 44,000 were infected but had yet to show symptoms."
Wuhan is a city the size of London.
Building a couple of 1,000 bed prefab hospitals is a brave start, but p1ssing in the wind. The advantage is that you can divert the patients away from the public and away from normal hospitals.
We shall have to wait and see how many people get a mild infection and recover easily.
The numbers will keep going up.
Eventually, they'll start coming down.
106 deaths
https://www.ft.com/content/cc2be982-417d-11ea-bdb5-169ba7be433d
"Researchers at University of Hong Kong forecast the virus would spread further. The university estimated that at least 25,630 people in Wuhan were showing symptoms of the disease and about 44,000 were infected but had yet to show symptoms."
Wuhan is a city the size of London.
Building a couple of 1,000 bed prefab hospitals is a brave start, but p1ssing in the wind. The advantage is that you can divert the patients away from the public and away from normal hospitals.
We shall have to wait and see how many people get a mild infection and recover easily.
The numbers will keep going up.
Eventually, they'll start coming down.
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