Originally Posted by
ozscott
I don't know why people who talk down the risk of Covid 19 talk of mortality rate. It's total mortality that is relevant because that takes into account the transmissibility and survival of the virus on surfaces. That is the problem with C19 versus Influenza A or B. It's highly transmissible and very long lasting on surfaces (and that is before considerations of mortality if you do get it...which on any view is many times higher than influenza A or B and where even those that recover, on emerging evidence, can have lung damage and other adverse health effects not normally associated with seasonal flu).
It is also very easy to look back in a year and say "what was all the fuss about?". It has been the extraordinary measures which have seen the total mortality as 'low' as it has been.
Cheers
Ps. I have heard arguments that more people.die of heart disease. Sure. But heart disease doesn't threaten to overwhelm hospitals as the threat of C19 did (doesn't now due to the measures). And besides, each risk to life adds up. If we can save so many lives but locking the country down and smacking the economy for a while so be it. But going forward there needs to be a big rethink of pig and chicken farming practices across the world which has led directly to the developments of nasty viruses that mutate to those transmissible to humans and if people have to eat less bacon due to the increased costs of free range farming...well 2 birds with one stone.
