I’m surprised mostly because I haven’t checked the numbers in a while. Also because the US will be number 2 on that list soon. But I guess otherwise not that surprised, now that you put it that way.
No. And because the hospitals haven’t been overloaded. If/when that happens, the death rate will/might go up. I think the strategy here is to try to prevent that scenario, not wait until we’re already there before we take action. So now they’ll be increasing the information/warnings so people are well informed.
That’s a strange article. Nobody suggested that Sweden would achieve a lower mortality rate by not locking down. Of course it was going to be high relative to other countries.
It’s a good point, but I think it means we’ve failed with traffic management more than the ‘economic reasons’ in many cases. To get zero traffic fatalities would indeed mean no cars for a start. But there’s still a big difference between, ten, one hundred or a thousand a year fatalities. That’s why we have regulations for speeding, seat belt wearing, car manufacturers etc.
Since the title is only named coronavirus without specifying which one, this deserves to be here, as it’s on course to being named COVID-20
Oh yeah, it’s also from China. The virus’ official name is Swine Acute Diarrhea Syndrome Coronavirus (SADS-CoV). Lovely. I do not want to get it at all. I already spend enough time on the john as it is. With China still having a firm grip on the UN and the WHO, the disease, if it ever makes the jump to humans, is certainly not going to be called the Chinese Diarrhea, so COVID-20 it is. I’m sure the Chinese would called it Xin Xin Guanzhuang Bingdu (New New Coronavirus).
Shockingly poor article, seems to have been written with a conclusion in mind and don’t let any of the data get in the way. The data presented in the article itself contradicts what the author is saying!