Maybe it is time to start worrying now. I live in Belgium and they say this second wave will be worse than the first one as now, the coronavirus is everywhere. The same, I guess is true for most other countries.
What if the numbers really start to peak a few weeks from now? What if they go on climbing? What if this time, ECU's (emergence care units) REALLY get overwhelmed and again choices have to be made as to who is worth saving and who is not?
How will this affect society, the economy, people's income? Will there be many people losing their job? Maybe losing their homes, become homeless?
Maybe we should starting thinking in earnest about what the course of events could be in such a scenario - so as to avoid maximally to be taken by surprise.
And if possible, on a country per country basis. Other threads should be opened for this I assume.
Quoting: Anonymous Coward ...The numbers will go up quite a bit by the end of this months. This is at least what I expect to happen, and this is what I predicted to happen, because, well, schools reopening and people going back to work from summer vacations.
But the rise in September, while significant, won't be the peak.October will see massive exponential rise in cases everywhere in Europe, as well as in the U.S....unless schools will be mostly online.
I repeat what I have said multiple times in the last weeks : if most schools stay open in person through October, if nation-wide lock-downs aren't in place by the end of October (and this is the very last possible moment in time that
might stop the pandemic) and most people will go to work and use mass transit once the cold season starts (after mid-October usually is cold enough to lower the immune system), we will see how a pandemic really looks like.
What we had until now was a glimpse...
There are only 2 possible outcomes come November : second nation-wide lock-down or we keep going and let the virus do it's thing.
How will the society react?
This is the answer I am trying to find for months now, because it is the only thing that matters, and having this answer before anyone else, helps us prepare better and earlier then the masses.
I have yet to find this answer, but I hope that by mid-October there will be enough reactions in society regarding the evolution of the pandemic.
As for lock-downs, the society reaction will depend on WHEN the lock-downs will be implemented (if they will be implemented).
