Same here mate. I project manage a fairly senior level project in the company I work for - 80% of my work and meetings are dial ins/web ex's anyway. As a company though they are being fairly pro active - just my boss who doesn't seem to grasp that this could be horrible going forwards.
Is that because the US health system doesn't afford the everyday person a free test and consultancy?
Indeed. It started from one person in Italy, I don't think it's realistic to at this point aim to control everyone unless you are using extreme methods. People will still be locked at home with other people, so for families of 6 you'd basically be looking at closing them down for three months, considering one can get it from the other... and that is even disregarding the possibility of getting infected twice, which has apparently happened.
Sorry, it was totally in jest and in relation to this: https://www.redcafe.net/threads/help-ive-ran-over-both-of-my-neighbours-cats-2-days-in-a-row.453635/
Sounds like you both need to search for some middle ground.
Yeah I'm waiting to see what they say. As I work for the County Council if the advice is to work from home then I expect we'll go along with it. Certainly puts the hotdesking policy into perspective. Always thought that was a terrible idea.
It'll all be for nothing though. Outside of mass transit the biggest problem area for spreading surely has to be schools?
If the kids get it the parents get it simple as that, then you have the bigger problem of older relatives getting it. Government hoping that they can contain it and will only shut schools at the very, very last minute.
Absolutely utterly disgraceful if so.
Indeed. And now we're praying that the same Government who've left the NHS in this state can act to save lives.
For context, chances of dying:
Do you have a source for this? I've doubts about this claim.
Well your odds of dying from hang gliding are precisely zero if you don't go hang gliding in the first place.
Those numbers include people living in China.
0.2% death rate in that age group according to ~50,000 Chinese cases. However those figures never said whether those people were otherwise healthy.
It's not really a lockdown, despite the media reports. Trains are still running, planes are still flying, roads are still open. Only now apparently the police/army can ask you why you are travelling and stop you if you don't have a valid reason, but i have not yet heard of that happening to anybody i know. I actually think it would be better if they were blocking main roads to make it more difficult for people to move around.
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/coronavirus-age-sex-demographics/
AGE | DEATH RATE confirmed cases | DEATH RATE all cases |
80+ years old | 21.9% | 14.8% |
70-79 years old | | 8.0% |
60-69 years old | | 3.6% |
50-59 years old | | 1.3% |
40-49 years old | | 0.4% |
30-39 years old | | 0.2% |
20-29 years old | | 0.2% |
10-19 years old | | 0.2% |
| 0-9 years old | | no fatalities |
That is the data from the Chinese CDC. The mortality rate for that age group was 0.2%. See the table under 'Prognosis', here:
Thank you for this. I've been searching for something like that.
Its a really informative site, shows daily the hotspots and new cases. Probably the best page of the site for ongoing information, based country by country, Spain is the latest European country to see a massive spike in cases.
Have no idea why. The mayor of NYC has requested to reduce public transport use and my company comes up with business as usual notice, when more than 75% of staff can work from home.
I am genuinely flabbergasted.Advice on large gatherings remains unchanged
There won't be. This won't be brought under control until the Government actually does something.
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