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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.


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    whjohnson:

    We have a particularly malevolent strain of flu and nothing more,




    This may be true but the fatality rate for this one is about 3.5% compared to about 0.1-0.2%, or about 20 times more deadly. As there are 17,000 deaths from flu in the UK on average each year this would indicate about 350,000 deaths, so the UCL prediction probably takes into account the measures taken to stop the spread. Bearing in mind that this is nearly 50% of the total annual death rate for England and Wales so it is fairly significant.

    As to what we are not being told, as nobody really knows where it originated (or even exactly when - mid-November 2019 is possible but as there was no test on those who (potentially) had it means that nobody knows. As nobody knows the origin they can't exactly tell us where it came from, hence the rise of various conspiracy theories. (That doesn't necessarily make the conspiracy theories wrong but they should be considered critically on the evidence available - as should the suggestions about bats)

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    whjohnson:

    We have a particularly malevolent strain of flu and nothing more,




    This may be true but the fatality rate for this one is about 3.5% compared to about 0.1-0.2%, or about 20 times more deadly. As there are 17,000 deaths from flu in the UK on average each year this would indicate about 350,000 deaths, so the UCL prediction probably takes into account the measures taken to stop the spread. Bearing in mind that this is nearly 50% of the total annual death rate for England and Wales so it is fairly significant.

    As to what we are not being told, as nobody really knows where it originated (or even exactly when - mid-November 2019 is possible but as there was no test on those who (potentially) had it means that nobody knows. As nobody knows the origin they can't exactly tell us where it came from, hence the rise of various conspiracy theories. (That doesn't necessarily make the conspiracy theories wrong but they should be considered critically on the evidence available - as should the suggestions about bats)

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