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50 years ago, HKF killed about 30,000 people in the UK with no restrictions.
You really don't understand numbers, do you? 30,000 is not OK. 110,250 (today's figure) with no limit in sight, is 3.675 times worse. Without restrictions, the current UK figure would probably be about 2,500,000.
It doesn't kill many people.
This "coronavirus" is very mild. It doesn't kill many people.
Bored Chemist, you are widely known as the "enfant terrible" of this website. With your insulting attitude.This is OK. The website needs stirring up by your irruptions. Science would not progress, unless it was disturbed by people such as Galileo, Newton, Darwin, and you.
If you are faced with a highly infectious disease with a high morbidity and mortality rate, no cure and no known preventive vaccine, rapid and efficient quarantine may prevent a disaster. Unfortunately rapid and efficient does not describe the current government of the United Kingdom, which is why we now have a long drawn out economic and social disaster instead of a functioning society recovering from a one month preventive quarantine that should have been instituted a year ago.
Quote from: alancalverd on 05/02/2021 17:47:46If you are faced with a highly infectious disease with a high morbidity and mortality rate, no cure and no known preventive vaccine, rapid and efficient quarantine may prevent a disaster. Unfortunately rapid and efficient does not describe the current government of the United Kingdom, which is why we now have a long drawn out economic and social disaster instead of a functioning society recovering from a one month preventive quarantine that should have been instituted a year ago. But in most years the flu toll is 5000 to 10000 people who could all be saved with quarantine. Are you just going to kill these people Alan.
Black Death, which killed half the population of Europe
Quote from: charles1948 on 05/02/2021 22:06:18Black Death, which killed half the population of Europe?
Covid-19 doesn't kill on a large scale. It's not like the Black Death, which killed half the population of Europe,So why this hysterical reaction to it? That's what I can't understand.
Quote from: Bored chemist on 05/02/2021 22:18:42Quote from: charles1948 on 05/02/2021 22:06:18Black Death, which killed half the population of Europe???
Quote from: charles1948 on 05/02/2021 22:06:18Covid-19 doesn't kill on a large scale. It's not like the Black Death, which killed half the population of Europe,So why this hysterical reaction to it? That's what I can't understand. It killed more than that. But people self isolated on the basis of personal peril, unfortunatley due to terrible hygiene, poor health and rife disease that was all of the population . The rich left town to isolate somewhere nice, the poor shut themselves away and the body collectors walked round uttering the immortal phrase "bring out the dead" and caught haemorrhagic fever. It still killed over 50 percent of people at a time when life expectancy was beneath 45, infertility due to ill health was almost as effective as modern contraception and something like 1 in 20 people born reached 21.
But in most years the flu toll is 5000 to 10000 people who could all be saved with quarantine. Are you just going to kill these people Alan.
Covid-19 doesn't kill on a large scale. It's not like the Black Death, which killed half the population of Europe,