Originally Posted by
AirportPlanner1
A couple of points to note, the 20k dead in U.K. so far is highly likely a significant underestimation (could even be double) and we’ve still got some way to go so the flu argument is redundant.
The fit and well and the under 70s carrying on with normal life is all well and good but how does that help route economics and the viability of some airlines. Sure, Stansted-Sofia may be fine but how about Stansted-Alicante? Malaga? Could such routes sustain a huge loss of market, disproportionately high in the months such routes are at their weakest
It could just as equally be lower because having been diagnosed positive with Covid-19 and dying, doesn't mean you died of Covid-19 but the stats are recording it that way.
Likewise nursing homes are getting unrecorded but in flu season the undertaker is a regular caller at a nursing home in a bad flu season.