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We have been advised not to go to pubs and restaurants, cinemas and other public places, to protect ourselves and others from the Coronavirus. Are we still able to work? Can we still obtain stock? Will we continue to visit workplaces like offices, shops or homes? Will we be provided  with fiscal support if we can not trade, especially if we are self employed?


University College London is predicting up to 250,000 potential fatalities from Coronavirus in the U.K.


How does the pandemic affect you?


Whaddaufink?


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    Quite why such a fuss is being made about this particular one escapes me



    Because it has a mortality rate at least 10 times higher than normal flu strains and, unlike flu, it's a novel virus so there is no vaccine and no-one is already immune. So whereas a particular flu strain will only infect a manageable chunk of the population, covid-19 will infect nearly everyone eventually.

    And whereas flu is treatable in the very sick by ventilators and ICUs, when we exceed the NHS's capacity for those treatments, people who would have normally recovered will die instead.
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    Quite why such a fuss is being made about this particular one escapes me



    Because it has a mortality rate at least 10 times higher than normal flu strains and, unlike flu, it's a novel virus so there is no vaccine and no-one is already immune. So whereas a particular flu strain will only infect a manageable chunk of the population, covid-19 will infect nearly everyone eventually.

    And whereas flu is treatable in the very sick by ventilators and ICUs, when we exceed the NHS's capacity for those treatments, people who would have normally recovered will die instead.
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