Originally Posted by
Ozgrade3
On the Easter weekend, approximately 25 people are going to die on the roads. We know this. It happens every Easter Long Weekend. We must preserve all life, at any cost. Therefore I demand that during this time, use of any road for driving of any wheeled vehicle (including bicycles) be prohibited. Even walking across a road should be outlawed and made a punishable offense. It will be mandatory to sit on your couch and not move. Anyone caught outside their house should be immediately arrested and taken to the nearest police cell for their own safety and remain there for 2 weeks. If that sounds like a silly idea, we have decimated our economy and vaporised hundreds of thousands of jobs,............ for 6 deaths. Should not a possible 25 deaths in 4 days, that we can accurately predict, trigger far more draconian measures?????
You really need to do an online course in epidemiology.
Somewhere between 3- 8% of people who contract the virus will die. The measures happening globally are to prevent the spread. The more people come into contact with it = the more infections. The more infections, the more deaths. If 50% of the world are infected (say 3.8 billion) and 5% die, that is a hell of a lot of people, maybe 2.5% of the global population. The table below shows a comparison between the deaths in Italy and the UK. Bear in mind the peak death rate for the UK is predicted for May, two months time.
Spain are about a week behind the Italian figures, Greece is just ramping up to UK levels. This is going to get worse, largely because Joe Public can't/won't heed the advice they are being given
