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What I'm worried about is how people can latch onto one figure (here it is a small percentage) and think that is the entire picture. "Its a small number of actual deaths so why are we worried?" Perhaps it is too complex but try also to consider the pace of infection and hospitalizations and deaths. Do the maths on that. If the 'small percentage' was nicely spread over a year. But the epidemic pace of infection was creating an exponential growth in illness (and the same growth in the need to put people into intensive hospital care). From 18 to 22 March the daily infection level in the UK tripled. And if you look at 20 to 27 March it quadrupled. Without some form of reduction in social interactions this 3-4 times increase a week would have at least continued or got worse.Today I understand that 9,000 hospital beds are being used for COVID-19 patients. Without lock down and restrictions this would soon be worse - maybe 3-4 times as bad in a week. And a week later 3-4 times as bad as that. By the end of April that would be 750,000 beds needed. So soon it would be more need for beds than we have beds or doctors or nurses. You also need to consider the duration of the illness. Of the 21,000 or so recorded case in the UK there are only 1,500 outcomes (death or return to health). 1,500 was the total number of cases by mid March. So it takes two weeks to treat an ill patient.What then for both COVID-19 patients and all the other patients in hospitals? Kick other patients out? Let people die of respiratory failure at home? While the other household members are ill. Collect the dead bodies in a cart maybe...? (Hey its only a small percentage that actually die so a small cart will be fine.)That is what is to worry about. And that is why the goal is not to stop the virus or safe lives but to slow the pace of infection. Thus give some chance there will be sufficient care for those who need it.Or maybe you have another solution in mind.

Alan Clark ● 2410d

BBC Reports that 1/5 of small and medium sized businesses collapsing equates to 800,000 to 1 million businesses; and whatever the figure is, it will only increase. What impact will this have on peoples’ financial futures, lives and health? If the lockdown lasts for months, what affect will this have on peoples’ mental wellbeing? To date, this year, there have been 318,000  and 213,000 psychiatric and suicide deaths reported, respectively, worldwide versus 44,000 deaths reported from coronavirus.Flu fatality rates in the UK vary from season to season, and have been less than 2,000 in recent seasons, but in 2014/15, the figure was 28,330. Does anyone recall any hysteria? Were businesses shut down and everyone put under house arrest? A 13 year old boy was reported as dying from Covid-19 yesterday, which the mainstream media slammed in our faces all day, and it’s still headlines, today. Sad news, but how many teenagers died of other illnesses yesterday? How many teenagers died during the 2014/15 Flu season? There are still no deaths from Covid-19 reported worldwide of children below the age of 12; so should Covid-19 be considered a major threat to the young?When we look at the bigger picture, as opposed to what the mainstream media is ramming down our throats all day, the government's response is questionable; it’s even questionable when we look at the coronavirus figures in isolation; so what’s it all about? Fruitcake, David Icke, gives us an update with an alternative view on this event:

Michael Brown ● 2409d