Re:London may have gone into a Covid-accelerated decline
by TheOtherHobbes on Saturday May 23, 2020 @07:22PM
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Around a quarter of cases are working age.
A non-trivial proportion of those become seriously ill for months. It's possible they're going be left with permanent health problems.
I know of one music app developer in his forties with no health issues who spent more than a month on a ventilator. He recovered - barely - but it's going to be a while before he's back to working full-time.
Nonsense about flu statistics is just ignorable whataboutery. Covid is a very nasty illness, and until a vaccine is developed it has potential to do huge direct damage.
Without lockdowns it would have spread like wildfire and a lot of people would have been off work at the same time. Some food supply chains in the US are already struggling.
Imagine what would have happened with only ten times more casualties.
A non-trivial proportion of those become seriously ill for months. It's possible they're going be left with permanent health problems.
I know of one music app developer in his forties with no health issues who spent more than a month on a ventilator. He recovered - barely - but it's going to be a while before he's back to working full-time.
Nonsense about flu statistics is just ignorable whataboutery. Covid is a very nasty illness, and until a vaccine is developed it has potential to do huge direct damage.
Without lockdowns it would have spread like wildfire and a lot of people would have been off work at the same time. Some food supply chains in the US are already struggling.
Imagine what would have happened with only ten times more casualties.