Coronavirus - Overall
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Australia set to announce a $2bn response package today. Public campaigns, more clinics, more tests.
In one sense Italy, Iran and South Korea have really taken one for the team. Their rapid outbreaks have scared the bejesus out of many (not all) other nations, who will now be far better prepared than they were.
It doesn't mean it won't sweep through Australia, but at the very least we should know what to expect and how to best manage it.
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@barbarian you gotta wonder why Italy has been hit as hard as they have, something like a hundred new deaths overnight apparently?
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@taniwharugby One of the world's oldest populations, maybe? Hard to know from where I'm sitting.
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@barbarian yeah you wonder what the demographic is like to see if it gives insight, I am sure the right people have knowledge of such things.
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Italy has the 2nd oldest average age after japan
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@taniwharugby said in Coronavirus: should I be panicking yet?:
@barbarian you gotta wonder why Italy has been hit as hard as they have, something like a hundred new deaths overnight apparently?
Check the video I posted above from 02:45 - 04:00, he goes over a message from a hospital in Milan. Sounds like their health system is struggling, as a result the death rate is going up.
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@Rembrandt said in Coronavirus: should I be panicking yet?:
Interesting article on how South Korea has been turning this this around from what looked like an impossible position.
Sounds like they have done a great job, and the population have done their part
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@taniwharugby said in Coronavirus: should I be panicking yet?:
@barbarian you gotta wonder why Italy has been hit as hard as they have, something like a hundred new deaths overnight apparently?
Scientific American article also notes that South Korea's low mortality rate may be a result of the sheer number of tests they have done, identifying many more mild cases, making the percentage lower at 0.6%.
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@booboo said in Coronavirus: should I be panicking yet?:
entific American article also notes that South Korea's low mortality rate may be a result of the sheer number of tests they have done, identifying many more mild cases, making the percentage lower at 0.6%.
all makes perfect sense...I was not aware Italy had such an 'old' population.
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The other thing about Italy is that there isn't a culture of retirement homes like in NZ, Aust and the USA. So the older people who are dying will be living at home (mainly apartments), often with their extended family. It could have been a lot worse, as in the outbreak in Washington State, if they were concentrated in the same facilities.
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Yeah my wife does some work at one of the big retirement villages and she said they are locking the gates and requiring visitors/workers to come to reception and taking temperature readings and something else before deciding if they can come in or not...
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oooooh, the WHO has called it a pandemic, with cases reaching 100,000 world wide
100,000!!! oooooohhhh
fuck off WHO, you anachronistic bureaucratic shitstains
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@mariner4life said in Coronavirus: should I be panicking yet?:
oooooh, the WHO has called it a pandemic, with cases reaching 100,000 world wide
100,000!!! oooooohhhh
fuck off WHO, you anachronistic bureaucratic shitstains
Seriously they can get fucked. Seemed more interested in curbing peoples language for fear of offending folk rather than actually informing. Hope they are digging their own grave on this.
My brother is en-route to Spain right now in part because these overpaid fucksticks and governments who think this offshoot of the UN is any authority are so slow to the punch.
Spain/Germany/France will be Italy in a little over a week, the UK a week or two after that.The stories coming out of hospitals in Italy are horrific.
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