SALUTE Cuba, they have allowed an infected ship to visit their island and keep their economy going. This nonsense about a pandemic is a conspiracy from the insurance companies to avoid claims, and capitalist profit making organisation that rely on ignorance of most normal citizens. The stats of Cuba infection rates will be critical in limiting more messing up by panicking politicians, who are protecting themselves by saying their health systems don't have enough ventilators to meet the crisis.
As far I can tell, as a past asthmatic and having a mild heart condition my chances of dying from covid 10 if I catch it in the next year are somewhere between 1 in 5 and 1 in 20. (And I'm actually reasonably fit and below retirement age.)
To put this into perspective, my odds of dying as a passenger on the UK rail network last year were somewhere in the order of 1 in 10,000,000. But because those odds are seen as unacceptable in UK society myself and my colleagues are kept very fully employed trying to improve them.
We are at an extraordinarily high level of risk at present. Just because most of us in the UK haven't seen levels of risk anywhere near approaching this magnitude in our lifetime doesn't stop it being real.
Bottom line: WITH the restrictions in place we have seen DOUBLE the usual death rate in the UK this month. I hate to think where that would have been if they hadn't been in place.
As far I can tell, as a past asthmatic and having a mild heart condition my chances of dying from covid 10 if I catch it in the next year are somewhere between 1 in 5 and 1 in 20. (And I'm actually reasonably fit and below retirement age.)
To put this into perspective, my odds of dying as a passenger on the UK rail network last year were somewhere in the order of 1 in 10,000,000. But because those odds are seen as unacceptable in UK society myself and my colleagues are kept very fully employed trying to improve them.
We are at an extraordinarily high level of risk at present. Just because most of us in the UK haven't seen levels of risk anywhere near approaching this magnitude in our lifetime doesn't stop it being real.
Bottom line: WITH the restrictions in place we have seen DOUBLE the usual death rate in the UK this month. I hate to think where that would have been if they hadn't been in place.
