Liverpool may wrap up the title inside two weeks, but the relegation battle and the European places will still be ongoing, and most likely still will be going into the final week of the season.
I know I know, it’s getting crazy now though. Feels like Europe is struggling to get a hold of it.
Playing behind closed doors will become moot.
Very true.
On this scale? Maybe the Spanish flu? That was a two year outbreak which killed millions I think. Happened between 1918-1920.
Spot on, from the PL’s point of view the title is probably the least of their concerns. Relegation places is where most problems could arise. No easy solution. Could go BCD tomorrow and then if players get infected it would have to at least be suspended.
Sky news had an article yesterday which said scientists reckon it might not peak till next winter and 100m could be infected. If correct that will result in a huge number of deaths.
Can this kind of thing mutate and become more deadly? Currently it’s killing older people or those with underlying health issues which is terrible, but what happens if it starts killing every age group?
Heard various theories on this, even that there may already be a few different strains which makes creating a vaccine much harder. But so much info out there it’s hard to know what to trust.
I read it is mutating, they compared genomes from earlier cases and found differences. Impossible to predict how it will change though.
City will still probably post attendances as full house.
Seen that. That single decision sums up Britain for me.
Swine flu 10 years ago apparently infected ~1billion people worldwide with over 500k deaths. Obviously was much more mild for the most part (cfr of 0.05% that, but in sheer numbers was huge anyway).
because the death rate was tiny in comparison (among other reasons)
It was really mild for the majority of those that had it. Death rate is tiny as well. It's just the so many got it that it's a big number, but I remember there being a huge panic at the time anyway. It's the same strand of virus of Spanish flu. Was in high school at the time though so I really don't remember how widespread it got, or if it was focused a lot more in the eastern part of the world.
I think it was the opposite as there were close to 500K deaths? but never seen country lockdown and the impact on business like this.
500k deaths from 1 billion people though. That's 0.05%. This is at 3.4% or whatever of reported cases, which is very big.
Cheers for sharing.
if the same amount of people (1bn) catch Covid, and the mortality rate stays the around same, we're looking at 30m deaths
Yeah, this is something that really, really worries me as well - especially as a parent.
I honestly think it's actually entirely possible that another season gets missed also...
When the pandemic clears which could be years in worst case scenario. Spanish flu lasted for 2 years.
I don't think it's outlandish to say that. Again, going back to Spanish flu, it had multiple waves over the course of 24 months. Once the cat is out of the bag and I think it is, then there is no stopping it.
When the number of people infected goes below a certain threshold I suppose. It might take some time.
It's possible, especially if we have to wait a long period to have a final count of everything to understand the real death rate.
I read an article that discusses this. As you suspect, the number of undiagnosed cases may well contribute to an inflated death rate; however, the fact that many may have it without realizing it makes it a far greater threat to spread exponentially. Apparently with sicknesses like SARS and MERS, the symptoms were so acute, and the illnesses so deadly, that the infected were more easily (and quickly) identified and isolated, thereby leading to more effective containment.
