You assume our family didn't lose someone? I can't confirm 100% that we did because they died before testing was possible but it is highly likely given their symptoms and circumstances.
Yes I stand by that, C19 is not serious, compared to all the other things that kill people every year C19 is a minor illness, indeed for 99% of those that catch it it is no worse than a cold. I will state it again, the average age of those that die WITH C19 is 83.
I'm sorry but that is just wrong, C19 is serious and it hits people hard. I am lucky enough not to have it but I know two close friends, both of which had it badly. One is a very, very close friend and is super fit, she does 20-40 miles per day cycling and 100 miles per weekend day. She's a nurse and knows how to take precautions. The other was a friend who works out a lot, neither smoke. Both are in their 40's. I don't work out and am overweight. Anyway, both of them got CV-19 at the start, one was in the ICU at Guys.
She was off work for three weeks, she described the aches and pains as beyond anything she'd ever felt before and that included difficult child birth. She couldn't move and thought she was simply going to die. I've picked her up off the road after a bad bike crash and she didn't complain. The chaps in Guys hosipital had each person either side of him die from CV-19, they were not 83 years old, but a similar age to him. He thought he was going to die and so did the doctors. He tried to prepare himself for it and the fact he wouldn't see his family at the time was awful to him.
This idea that Covid-19 is just like flu is rubbish. If you get it, it can hit you hard, it can kill, it appears to have long term health implications, we are getting better at managing the treatment of it as we have a slightly better understanding of it and the doctors have started to learn about what works and what doesn't work.I accept that it doesn't hit everybody the same and that the elderly are hit harder than the young, but nobody is immune.
This is real, these are my friends, these are my direct experiences of people who are close to me. I do not think I am special and I happen to have just the few people who've been affected, this is happening all over the world, people are dying, because we are taking precautions, less people are dying than before. I would hate to think what we would be like if we hadn't locked down. I think this govt's response has been woeful in the extreme as well.
However this is not some WHO fantasy, this is not a plot from Dan Brown illuminiti trash novel, there is no reptile ruler of the universe overlording us, this is not something I heard from a mate down the pub, this is not something I picked up from Karen or Ken on Facebook. Bill Gates isn't a reptile, whatever people think. (though I do think he actually set computing back with Windows and I'll never forgive him for the Clippy).
There is no govt secret plot to manage and control us, this govt can't organise a party in a brewery, the US govt leaks more than a sieve, do you think they can keep this secret cabal secret. How many people who have to be in on the plot and for not one of them to speak out? People seem to think there there are always secret organisations with perfect control of their membership who never leak information, who never get drunk and blurt out they are working for <insert name of latest conspiracy theory>, who never leak information, who never get things wrong.
Sometimes the simple explanation is the right one, it's a nasty virus, it is infectious, it's novel, it's passed in the air. It may well have originated in China. We have had these things before and we'll have them again. This is the real world.
I am now disengaging from this thread and will go back to learning how to use a tenon saw.
Stay safe, all of you, even the ones who think this is a hoax. I wouldn't wish Covid-19 on my worst enemy.
Ron
