pillred

You and me both.

I'm not saying everything in the garden will be rosy soon just that things will probably be a lot better than you are expecting due to past experience of other things that were going to kill us all.

The bit about lasting for decades, and to a lesser extent the civil disobedience, and what makes me so certain, past experience of this sort of thing remember aids, sars, bird flu, mad cow disease, I could go on, all were going to decimate the world what happened? exactly there seems to be no limit to mans ingenuity a cure for this will be found there are already positive news coming from various places as far as vaccines are concerned, stop swallowing all the doomsday scenario stuff it doesn't help and just fuels more panic his post was sensationalist at best and as I said complete BO***cks at worst.

I know you call yourself the eternal pessimist but that is complete BOLL***S. I predict you will look very silly in 3 months time and you can hold me to that.

Surely if there could be as many as 50,000 infected and we know the number of deaths then the mortality rate is a lot lower than feared.

Just come back from Sainsburys Portishead, not a single can of beer on any shelf and most other shelves empty or nearly empty and that was at 10:30 utter madness.

Has anybody any theories as to why Germany has 4 times as many confirmed cases as us yet one third of the deaths? there seems to be no logic to it the percentage of cases to deaths seems to vary wildly in some countries. Switzerland for instance also has a similar number of cases to us despite having a fraction of our population, yet there death rate is 25% of ours pro rata.

Well it reads differently to me, and I'm fairly sure he meant 20,000 deaths not 200 even if he didn't word it very well.

Where does he say it's only going to be 200? he said 20,000.

As I said the drugs for HIV seem to work against Covid 19, and as they are tried and already tested should enable them to be fast tracked, as for having enough for all of us well your guess is as good as mine.

These aren't normal times though, I expect to see an unprecedented fast tracking of possible vaccines, the Australian use of HIV medicines sounds very promising they are already fairly tried and tested.

Educated, and common sense, big difference.

Thanks for the comprehensive answer, should put a lot of peoples minds at rest.

Heard a so called expert yesterday on Breakfast news and when it was put to him about re infection said it would only be in exceptional cases as the bodies immune system in the vast majority of people would not let that happen.

Have run out of likes but thankyou for taking the time to answer my question, put like that it's easy to see how we have got to this.

Thanks for the explanation, it can be a bit difficult getting to the truth where the NHS is concerned.

That might explain it then, whenever you hear anyone from the government discussing the NHS they give the impression the budget has gone up year on year, sounds like they're massaging the figures a bit.

If you believe the government (I know I know) they say they have increased spending on the NHS above the rate of inflation for the past ten years. If that's the case where the hell has all the money gone? and why are they always saying they need more? I would be genuinely interested to hear from someone that knows about these things.

If not entirely predictable.

I think hindsight is a wonderful thing but with it it's difficult to argue that allowing people to just enter the country from infected areas was a huge mistake.

I certainly don't feel sorry for him, but to blame him in any way until we know how this will pan out is pure speculation, as you say let history be the judge what he has done, is doing may well turn out to be a masterstroke let's hope history will be kind otherwise, well it doesn't bear thinking about.

50% of what you say is quite a reasonable argument the other 50% is complete political point scoring B***Ocks I will leave you to decide which is which.

It seems to me to be a case of damned if he does and damned if he doesn't, people and they know who they are on here appear to be looking for a convenient scapegoat.

The first vaccine is to be tested on human volunteers in the US, let's keep our fingers crossed it works.

Yes maybe it's an older person kind of mindset (that's me include) maybe not so true now, annoys the hell out of me all this hoarding and stuff.