Quote from: Lucius on March 27, 2020, 12:07:47 PM

Quote from: exstasie on March 26, 2020, 07:58:38 PM

Quote from: jackg on March 26, 2020, 05:45:01 PM

Hopefully the gov will just decide its more worthwhile to infect everyone determined healthy for 2 or 3 weeks and wait for them to recover and have enforced mass immunity of we can't get a vaccine fast enough...

Scary proposition given the long recovery timelines and hospitalization needs.

I see that the vast majority of UK people still share the view of their prime minister and government that it is better to let people get infected and gain immunity, but if we look at the example of Italy where mortality is more than 8%, the UK would with even less hospital capacity with this way of defense against the virus had several million casualties.

The government and PM have backtracked from that opinion because of the spike in hospitalizations. Boris Johnson has contracted COVID-19 and is now promoting the mantra of "Stay at home and save lives #StayHomeSaveLives."

https://twitter.com/BorisJohnson/status/1243496858095411200

I still strongly believe such mortality rates will be drastically reduced after widespread antibody testing. All testing is currently being aimed at symptomatic cases, which means mild and asymptomatic cases are very much not being counted in estimated mortality rates.

Where I live, you can't even get tested if you have very obvious corona virus symptoms, so none of those people are being counted as "confirmed cases." Only high risk and severe (hospitalization required) cases are receiving tests. Those people are much more likely to die.