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Originally Posted by Jaymoss
It is seriously unlikely to kill you or put a strain on the NHS so quite a bit different to Covid innit
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I know this but that won't stop some will it? We're already seeing suggestions people will be obliged or recommended to self isolate.
We had similar in early 2020, they were telling people with cough/fever to isolate, then they said they were going to shield elderly people and tell them not to go out for 12 weeks, then they started telling people to WFH...
Even then covid didn't really have that much of a fatality rate - especially when you count the number of people who presumably had it without realising, either because they had no symptoms or they were so minimal, the case fatality rate is clearly much lower than quoted, so actually the issues with covid were less than quoted - but still, pretty high at certain times.
It's a known virus, most people have immunity, they just need to slow it a bit.
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Originally Posted by Jaymoss
surely the word only should only be used when the number is small, 85% effective is not bad
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Well, 85% effective isn't really that high, it does mean that 15% will not have any benefit at all from it, which isn't too bad in small numbers, but in higher ones...