you are probably more likely to be run over by a bus.
Over 100 people a year in the UK are struck by lightning. More than 350 people a year are hit by a bus just in London.
The mortality rate for seasonal flu is a tenth of that for Covid19, they think. But 1000s more people catch it, hence the currently lower number of deaths. If more people catch coronavirus, it won't be long before you'll be as likely to die from it as you are to win the lottery.
Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
To put this into perspective - 163 people in the UK have the virus - from a population of say roughly 66 million .... thats a really small % is it not?
Seasonal flu in the UK kills around 17,000 a year...and thats even with the option of a flu jab - which many don't bother with, preferring to "take ones chances" Maybe if the media made a big story from that the seasonal flu figure would fall?? Or is it that most worryingly a larger % of the UK than first thought need to be told how to carry out the most basic of personal hygiene techniques??
but every year at some point only 163 people in the UK have the flu virus. Covid-19 spreads just as fast, looks like it has a higher chance of killing people than flu and there is no vaccine. So take your average figure of 17,000 a year (killed by complications rather than the flu directly) add in all the at-risk people who avoided flu thanks to the jabs (all 20-30 million of them) and see where those figures take you. Once there is a job for it I imagine people will relax and it will get treated like flu but until then containment seems like a better option.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
Absoblooodylutetly. But, what the gov is trying to instil via the handwash mantra is to stop the virus hitting 80% of the population (their worst case).
Today, you could go to probably go out and talk to anyone, touch anyone and touch anything local and you're unlikely to even come close to the virus.
It all comes down to habit - get people repeating 'get it done' type syndrome - as the percentage is small today, but won't be if (as) the virus spreads.
So start getting into habits now and then the percentage hopefully won't increase.
Don't think about 'stuff' you're handling now, and you won't be in the habit later.
The mortality rate increases with age. OH and I are in our seventies - mortality is, apparently, 8% for this age group. I refuse to panic, but take sensible precautions, in much the same way that I always have. I have hand gel for when we go out for, say, a pub lunch, and it's quicker and easier to use it before the food arrives. At home I wash hands thoroughly (though I have never felt the need to break into song to time it) before handling food, and during food preparation. All I am doing is keeping on keeping on - with a little bit more attention to detail.
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The mortality rate for seasonal flu is a tenth of that for Covid19, they think. But 1000s more people catch it, hence the currently lower number of deaths. If more people catch coronavirus, it won't be long before you'll be as likely to die from it as you are to win the lottery.
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Seasonal flu 0.1% mortality
Corona virus 1-3% mortality.
80% of 65,000,000 = 52,000,000
3% of this = 1,560,000 deaths in UK.
This is obviously the worst case scenario, but how few is too few to bother about?
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
I refuse to panic, but take sensible precautions, in much the same way that I always have. I have hand gel for when we go out for, say, a pub lunch, and it's quicker and easier to use it before the food arrives.
At home I wash hands thoroughly (though I have never felt the need to break into song to time it) before handling food, and during food preparation.
All I am doing is keeping on keeping on - with a little bit more attention to detail.
Every little helps....