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Why hasn't the UK been locked down yet?
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Just had a text from my wife (NHS) an employee had locked herself away in a room and refused to come out, she became hysterical (the woman, not the wife) and they have sent her home.
Lots of jittery people about, not everyone's treating it as party-time.
Quoting: Anonymous Coward 78659621 I take your point, but the simple fact is, the flu kills many more people a year than this, and I don't recall seeing the world collapse because of it. I agree, but as I understand the initial worry about containment was that this is a novel (new) strain of the Coronavirus (which is a flu virus in itself) and the world could do without a new strain that appears to be so contagious and becomes an annual event. If the info is to be believed the problems lie in the severity of ease of transmission, the fact that it can be transmitted prior to symptoms showing (first 5 days or so) and 'they' say that those first days are also the time that you may be most contagious. The numbers of ICU units are not available to deal with the severity of this disease so as a country we want to limit the number of infections appearing at any time in order to not overwhelm the system. Due to the nature of this virus it's worse than the SARS and MERS combined. I believe we are dealing with what we are hearing, if there are other underlying reasons I have no idea but time will tell.
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