and its not just GDP... its supply chains, medicines (something we'll probably need right now)

you don't need to move people to move medicines

these are all non-arguments

containers of products aren't people?

and also... we still dont know how this is going to turn out.... for all we know we might not even get as many cases as the 2009 bird flu

we might not

"might not" not very reassuring.

I mean we could have closed everything down in 2009... I dont think that would have helped much ... it would certainly have hurt a lot of people

This isn't 2009

this isn't h1n1

or the many other viruses that have come up over the years

this isn't a flu virus

This is a virus which we have NO treatment for and no vaccine for.

we had no treatment or vaccine for h1n1 til about... 2011? or was it even 2014?

yes the death rate is probably somewhere in the ball park of .6-1% but still it's way worse than flu and we have no idea how much worse it's likely to get.

you're on a losing ticket here, wacka, whatever happens now - the government missed the opportunity to reduce the risk to it's citizens by not being more pro-active at the bordre

nothing you have said, nothing you have linked to does anything to change that

the death rate will sky rocket when health care systems will be at capacity or over flowing

well even when this is all over, there will still be no way to tell whether the govs actions will have helped or hindered

We can look at other countries that have done something

nope

they acted very early

its to late for the us uk and australia

the virus will spread like wild fire

depends when you look at those countries... if we look after wave 2 it might be a very different story

I don't know about that.

https://twitter.com/jeremycorbyn/status/1239201999486357504

@Scar it is to late to contain the virus

Id agree with JC.. but not yet... theres only a thousand cases

i don't agree with JC in this, either

thats only detected cases in the uk

its likely much higher

@wacka confirmed

could be

it's likely WAY higher even by boris' own estimates

10,000 cases are likely to exist already.

but the cases not confirmed... are probably not using NHS beds..

what right does the NHS have to private healthcare beds?

@wacka no but they are spreading the virus to others.

sure but thats not what we're talking about here... we're talking about the need for beds

the health care system will become overflowed give it few weeks to a moth and the uk will be similar to italy