What is your point then, SS?
I gave you the WHO reference to pandemic, which it fits.
Were you expecting "pandemic" to include in its definition, "kills loads of people"?
Because it appears not to.
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What is your point then, SS?
I gave you the WHO reference to pandemic, which it fits.
Were you expecting "pandemic" to include in its definition, "kills loads of people"?
Because it appears not to.
Well, it is the same family as the cold and it is (more) severe. How much more severe is the crucial issue.
Also, SARS is not a disease in itself; it stands for 'severe acute respiratory syndrome' which Covid-19 is.
Also, SARS is not a disease in itself; it stands for 'severe acute respiratory syndrome' which Covid-19 is.
we need to keep in mind a tube train is a giant piston and you get amazing airflow in a station as one enters
i would imagine a cough or sneeze could cover an amazing area in a tube station at the wrong time
i would imagine a cough or sneeze could cover an amazing area in a tube station at the wrong time
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I appreciate that for the young fit and healthy, it may not be more than "a severe form of the cold."
But for the elderly and those with certain health conditions, it poses a potentially serious threat.
I am not being unsympathetic, truly i am not, but what do you think "underlying health condition" means?
It means that the sufferer has a condition that makes them more susceptible to a more severe outcome to a given stressor, than a non-sufferer.
(I am presuming that "underlying health condition" is used to describe an unwanted condition, as opposed to something like "spectacularly rude health", "the ability to self-heal in moments", or "immortality").
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A lot of sufferers only have mild symptoms. The thing with underlying health issues is, that some may not know they have them.
I too told Notch this yesterday (example being the apparently-fit people who drop dead during sport, and are latterly found to have had undiagnosed heart conditions).
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I know what they are, I have two of them!
https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/uk-news/full-list-underlying-health-conditions-17938879
I was being somewhat rhetorical.
To re-state my previous point, there would be little point in mentioning "underlying health conditions", unless they had some relevance. Again as I said previously, a negative effect for the sufferer.
So, I stand by the point that if a cold is severe for a healthy person, it is hardly surprising that the same cold might be more severe, for someone who is less healthy to start with.
Not to mention the decades of diesel particulates, silica dust, dried-out rat shoite, and asbestos fibres........
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