One thing I don't get , the viruses are very smart , but why do they commit suicide , they attack a body , the body will die and get buried and then the virus will die to ? Cheers

I watched the video

Shook my head, and decided

I will be much better off, over reacting, than under reacting

I will assume that the good Doctor made the video, long before the world ran out of ventilators/PPE for the health workers/temporary and mobile morgues/60,428 deaths etc

How many who have died knew about keeping safe distance etc ? Why are ventilators coming from
China ? Dont necessarily need to stay home !

Hi 

Yes it is all about perspective ! If you were told that you could save your life by staying at home for some time and putting up with crap on the box then it seems an easy choice to me. I know that some thoughts are  "dont necessarily need to stay at home" but as has been seen already people just then spread it around by going out. The virus has no means of moving around except by the people hosts moving around. Any thinking person could see that. And as you can be a carrier before you show ANY symptoms how do you know you do not have it. Look at the backpackers and their hot spots ! Anybody want to get on the beach with them ?? They are young and possibly will recover OK but I am am old and may not be so lucky.

Look at the good ol' US of A lead by an idiot ignoring the advice from his experts. I am glad I do not live there and it will get much worse soon. I am sorry for them.

Show common sense and stay at home. Get the list of jobs out and go for it !

Jaahn 

 

-- Edited by Jaahn on Tuesday 7th of April 2020 11:24:47 AM

Yes. The restrictions that we all face are possibly an over-reaction. However, I am content to stay home and follow the best available advice about physical distancing, hand washing, etc. until the all clear is given. I am in the aged vulnerable group and would like to survive a bit longer to see my grandchildren grow up into adulthood. This is not the time to ignore the best intentions of medical experts who may be struggling with limited information. Road trauma and diseases other than Covid-19 don't go on holiday while one disease gets the news media attention, but the restrictions will put a damper on the the more usual causes of death and trauma for the duration of the restrictions.

I have been asking what the true picture of Covid19 infection rate, but experts, media and governments only tell the populace half the picture it easy to scaremonger people if you only tell them the the cumulative number of the those infected and highlight the deaths, also harp on about what's happening in other countries. Leaving out a key part of the puzzle to help keep us scared and under control, currently the Australian cumulative total infected is a bit over 5900 with 48 deaths, whilst each death is heart breaking for their families, but again it's easy to blame covid-19 for the death but was there a underlying medical problem. The numbers by percentage of population is never really spoken about, but if you were told the true infection rate, then you would question some of the decisions made, here are the number as of yesterday, look closely and the number of people that have beaten the virus, and then subtract it for the 5900 cumulative total. New South Wales: 2,686 Victoria: 1,191 Queensland: 934 Western Australia: 470 South Australia: 411 Australian Capital Territory: 97 Tasmania: 89 Northern Territory: 28 TOTAL CASES:  5,906 RECOVERED: 2,439  DEAD: 48

People complain we have gone overboard with restrictions & would probably be the same people who would complain if we had the mortality rate of other countries!

You can't win!

Personally I would rather we have restrictions & still have all our doctors & nurses! They seem to agree & since we can't replace them in a hurry we would be stuffed!

The longer we can spread this out the better we will be prepared for future cases.

A link for the ABC re the virus. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-04-07/coronavirus-government-covid19-modelling-experts-on-response/12128950

Aussie Paul. 

There is no answer to that BS.
Cheers,
Peter

'Using photos posted online, social media sleuths have estimated that Wuhan funeral homes have returned 3,500 urns a day since March 23. That would imply a death toll in Wuhan of about 42,000 - or 16 times the official number. Another widely shared calculation from Radio Free Asia, based on Wuhan's 84 furnaces running nonstop and each cremation taking an hour, put the death toll at 46,800.'

 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/chinese-families-should-be-sweeping-graves-now-but-thousands-still-havent-buried-their-dead/2020/04/03/5a6daa50-7234-11ea-ad9b-254ec99993bc_story.html

 

'Wuhanresidents say the activities belie the official statistics. "It can't be right . . . because the incinerators have been working round the clock, so how can so few people have died?" a man identified only by his surname, Zhang, told RFA.'

Tonight on News, we are getting bulk medical supplies from Whuhan. W.T.F. ?????????????????????????????????????

1,940 deaths in the USA yesterday and still increasing.
Cheers,
Peter

as usual ... a healthy debate

have a look at the "just beside myself" contribution ... an example of folk reacting without thinking or compassion to a grey nomad in obvious distress.