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

yes but by the time we are close to capacity they have already infected a ton more people to the point where we are unable to deal with it @wacka

and i genuinely hope i am wrong

If they want access to private healthcare beds, they either need to buy access to them, or declare a state of national emergency and appropriate them with appropriate laws

did you not see bucket guy....

as you are at capacity, you also have people coming out of the NHS

which is why you quarantine at 90-95%

which actually... they havent really given any figures on... that would probably actually be helpful...

i.e "if 200,000 ppl get hospitalised with wuhanV then we are near cap, so quarantine is in effect"

I just wish we had much wider testing

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-51896052

chan4 said something about a 10minute tester that they are dishing out next week

it's way less than 200k