% of population dying from coronavirus ... pattern emerging

[TheYorkshireTerrier]

Hopefully we'll get rid of the appalling 'power through', 'man up' culture of people dragging themselves into work and then coughing and sneezing all over.

Workplace sickness policies will need to change as lots at the moment are designed to force people to come to work with cold/flu.

Thing with this is that my place of work, and others, don't pay for sick days. Something would need to be brought into cover that, as not many can afford to take 2/3 days off sick.

 

[anonn]

"Yesterday in Oklahoma they tested 352 people and every single test came back positive.
Today they tested another 178 people and all of those tests came back positive too."

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Not on the same scale but surely we are heading for the same thing here with the reopening of pubs etc?

 

[Billy Horner]

For the countries that have experienced widespread community transmission of the coronavirus ... and by that, I mean countries where it seems to have almost run its course, having infected and killed the vulnerable (Italy, Spain, UK, Belgium, USA) there seems to be some consistency to the % of the population that are dying up until the virus runs its course, and that is between 0.05% and 0.1%. Which is a bit of a worry where the USA is concerned, as the lower end of that would be around 190,000.

Which is an extremely charitable way of looking at it.

The only countries in the world that have, thus far, experienced that level of overall mortality are Belgium, UK, Spain, Italy and Sweden. It could equally be argued, therefore, that they are the countries that have instigated the worst public health responses to the virus.

Not that I'm excluding the possibility of the US, Brazil and Mexico joining them in the coming weeks.

 

[Randy]

Hopefully we'll get rid of the appalling 'power through', 'man up' culture of people dragging themselves into work and then coughing and sneezing all over.

Workplace sickness policies will need to change as lots at the moment are designed to force people to come to work with cold/flu.

As long as sick pay stays at £92 per week then unfortunately people will continue to go to work with a mild cold.

 

[Colgates_shaving_foam]

As long as sick pay stays at £92 per week then unfortunately people will continue to go to work with a mild cold.

If a business can't afford to pay a reasonable amount of sick pay, say at least 5 days per 12 mths then the business cannot afford to be in business.

 

[borolad259]

Which is an extremely charitable way of looking at it.

The only countries in the world that have, thus far, experienced that level of overall mortality are Belgium, UK, Spain, Italy and Sweden. It could equally be argued, therefore, that they are the countries that have instigated the worst public health responses to the virus.

Not that I'm excluding the possibility of the US, Brazil and Mexico joining them in the coming weeks.

Not charitable. Factual. Neither you nor I knows what's coming. This is what has happened so far. Some places were successful in preventing the spread of infection. Some weren't. Some took a long view and gambled on taking it early (not a gamble I'd necessarily endorse).

 

[bear66]

I'd endorse the gambles that Taiwan and South Korea made.

 

[Billy Horner]

Not charitable. Factual. Neither you nor I knows what's coming. This is what has happened so far. Some places were successful in preventing the spread of infection. Some weren't. Some took a long view and gambled on taking it early (not a gamble I'd necessarily endorse).

The only fact is that those are the five countries with the highest per capita death rates from Covid-19 in the world. Everything else is pure speculation.

I'd endorse the gambles that Taiwan and South Korea made.

And you could add Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos and Thailand to that list. All countries that decided not to treat the virus as flu-type (and simply assume it was inevitable that most of the population would contract it), but instead decided to suppress it at all costs. Something they had learnt from their experiences with SARS.