Month: May 2020

Social Distancing

https://auntyuta.com/2020/05/01/the-things-you-cannot-say-about-coronavirus/

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The Things You CANNOT Say About Coronavirus

The Things You CANNOT Say About Coronavirus

The author seems to be fed up with Social Distancing and argues that it probably is being overdone, meaning not necessary to such an ‘extreme’ extent, but that you are not allowed to say this.

Here is my comment to this about social distancing:

Isn’t it true, that we cannot be sure who might be spreading the Coronavirus, the one that is called Covid19. Anybody can accidentally have picked up the virus somewhere. It is easy to pass it on if you do not keep a social distance. This is a fact, isn’t it?
Well, with the flu, I reckon it is a bit different. Somehow we have mostly learned to live with it. Sure, a lot of people get infected during the flu season. We try to stay away from people who have obviously a bad cold. Most people do not end up in hospital if they happen to infect themselves with a bit of the flu virus. The medical profession and the hospitals are not overloaded just because a certain number of people happen to have the flu.
But now, isn’t this a bit different with this present Coronavirus? You cannot protect yourself from this virus unless you practice strict Social Distancing and avoid touching surfaces where the virus might be present. So you are not allowed to touch your face before you washed your hands thoroughly! And if you say I do not like all these restrictions, therefore I do not care if I spread the virus around. Well, this may be so, but please, do you say the same about the flu virus? If you have a bad cold, do you go around and let your droplets reach others by coughing and sneezing regardless how close other people are to you?
I agree, generally speaking dying is something all of us can expect sooner or later. However is it not obvious that the infection and dying en masse because of a virus we ought to prevent as much as possible?
Sure, a lot of us are extremely upset when Social Distancing is necessary over an extended period of time, but are you not concerned how overloaded all our medical facilities become when Social Distancing is less and less observed and when millions and millions of people die at a time when they would otherwise not have died?

Pandemic: Dr. Peter Wadhams – The Meaning of Exponential Growth

 

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The End of Normal – Part 1

The title ‘The End of Normal’ says it all. The current #COVID-19 #pandemic has changed, and there is no going back. The conversation was elicited by an email from John Doyle, a long time EU Commission member, sent to his EU colleagues, on which I, Stuart Scott, was copied. The subject line was ‘The End of Normal’ and the body of the email was a shock-and-a-half to me, even though John and I share the same view of humanity’s ‘prognosis.’ There was additional content to the conversation, which we will release in Part 2 as soon as possible. If you find this conversation valuable, do Subscribe and ‘Click the Bell’ to receive an alert when Part 2 and other future videos are published.

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