1 minute ago, ScummyRebel said:

I have past pandemics as a historical trend. While it’s not a 100% guarantee to the point I’d bet my life on it, I am rather sure because while our ability to treat people and reduce death has gone up, the ability to prevent spread is pretty abysmal. And it won’t change because of the reality of life.

Okay, so because there have been pandemics in the past, you figured the most responsible thing to do is pick one at random and say "because this unrelated disease behaved this way 100 years ago, that's what's going to happen here." And as if that ridiculous logic wasn't unhelpful enough you decided to tack on some extra nonsense.

I mean why not pull a time table out of your *** and add that in there too?

Oh and "I would expect this to never go away". Very helpful. Just like the Spanish Flu from 100 years go, that never went away, right? I also remember how people are still dying in massive numbers from that one. Or wait, they're not?? So it IS possible for a disease to go away?! Not according to a random guy on a gaming forum!

I say again, you do not know what you're talking about. A cursory knowledge of an unrelated virus from a century ago does not make you qualified to tell people what to expect.

If you don't know what you're talking about (and you very clearly don't), then all you're doing is stirring up more confusion and fear.

Stop being part of the problem.

If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.

So, just a little update for those who were accusing people who thought the UK government's strategy was lunatic nonsense of "playing politics", let's review with the benefit of the latest info.

1. The government's entire strategy and the modelling used by its scientific advisors was based on an entirely different virus - viral pneumonia - with entirely different rates of transmission, incubation, and mortality .

2. When scientists at Imperial College London reviewed the matter using data for the correct virus , they determined the government's previous policy would have led to a quarter of a million deaths, the vast majority of them entirely preventable. Even which may of course be a substantial under-estimate because not everyone - least of all the UK which is barely bothering to at all - has reached Chinese & South Korean levels of testing and contact-tracing yet.

3. This graphic ably demonstrates why the government's prior strategy(black line) is and always was either insanity or malice, and why even its revised approach(blue line) when faced with the reality of their woeful incompetence is still entirely insufficient:

If you live in the UK and you possibly can self-isolate, do so. If you can work from home, do it. If you have sick leave, take it. If you have young children, pull them out of school. You may not get sick and die from this, but every person who ignores this cynical, bumbling, incompetent government and instead uses the WHO approach will make it slightly less likely that someone old, or immunocompromised, or who may require admission to intensive care for some other reason over the next few months will die unnecessarily, and slightly more likely that the government's hand will be forced and they'll have to adopt the full WHO protocols.

2 hours ago, TauntaunScout said:

If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.

I appreciate that far more than I should.

2 hours ago, TauntaunScout said:

If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.

and here I thought nothing in this thread would amuse me more than my Plague INC joke.

I've been wrong before.

I actually did hoard a bunch of stuff for la corona. But not like everyone is doing now. We saw this coming over a month ago and have been buying a little extra each time we went shopping.

22 minutes ago, TauntaunScout said:

I actually did hoard a bunch of stuff for la corona. But not like everyone is doing now. We saw this coming over a month ago and have been buying a little extra each time we went shopping.

The difference between prepared and panicked.

5 minutes ago, Darth Sanguis said:

The difference between prepared and panicked.

The only things I ran out to buy like a madman amidst the crowds were luxuries. Like Easter candy cause at that point I realized there was no way this would be over by Easter.

1 hour ago, TauntaunScout said:

The only things I ran out to buy like a madman amidst the crowds were luxuries. Like Easter candy cause at that point I realized there was no way this would be over by Easter.

Man, I knew I was forgetting something! Doh!

1 hour ago, ScummyRebel said:

Man, I knew I was forgetting something! Doh!

Time for a REAL Easter egg hunt.