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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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Interesting article on how South Korea has been turning this this around from what looked like an impossible position.
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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?
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-deaths-from-coronavirus-are-so-high-in-italy/
https://time.com/5799586/italy-coronavirus-outbreak/?amp=true
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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@Rembrandt I was just reading this interview article with him this morning:
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/03/10/opinions/osterholm-coronavirus-interview-bergen/index.html
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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.
Handy map for folk wanting to take advantage of travel deals: https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/viewer?mid=1yCPR-ukAgE55sROnmBUFmtLN6riVLTu3&ll=42.79071380926329%2C-0.32723832291847543&z=3
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@raznomore said in Coronavirus: should I be panicking yet?:
FFS! Not Tom. Not beautiful, kind natured Tom!
I wonder if Trump read that report has having contracted it in Austria and thought 'Right I have you now you little prick'
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@dogmeat said in Coronavirus: should I be panicking yet?:
Thanks Don - just wiped $30K off my portfolio since yesterday.
Not worried about the virus but brainless politicians will be the death of me.
Seriously didn't think even he could be that stupid.
I'm down too. As long as you don't have to sell it's sweet. Just got to pick the time to buy on the bounce
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@canefan yeah I'm not out for sympathy. I have ridden out previous downturns but as I am closer to retirement I can't really take a big hit.
I exited the really vulnerable stocks in January and have just sold off a few more than weren't performing that well anyway to build a vampire warchest
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