On 2020-03-22 09:32:28 TME said:
A mortality rate of 2% is nothing to write home about. People die everyday. Death is the only certainty in life.

Correction, death and taxes !

On 2020-03-22 09:35:19 TME said:
The sooner people get infected the quicker we can recover. Governments have provided adequate assistance to hospitals in preparation of increased demand for health care. This is unavoidable. There is no need to be alarmist or live in fear.

That is a dangerously illiterate, onnosel and stupid (take your pick but I'd recommend you take ALL 3!) remark!
It also suggests that the Chinese government as well as Italy's is thick as a brick... you are egoistical I reckon?

If YOU (and ONLY YOU!) would get infected now and need medical help then yes, rather now than later, simply because our medical institutions are not overloaded yet so you'd stand a good chance of getting proper help.
But if infections spread like a wildfire, and this virus DOES, a proven fact, then our medical care (like anywhere else in the world!) will be overloaded and effectively suffocated, it will be rendered useless, ONLY due to the staggering numbers of patients needing care!

Social isolation in some form or another will SLOW the spread, that's all it will do, and yes, most of us WILL get it... but slowing the spread means we will stand a chance to get medical help!
That means less fatalities, you get that bit?
Hence your remark is downright stupid, better be quiet!!!!!

(wrong edit button, double post)

On 2020-03-22 10:59:37 Wild_Weasel said:
On 2020-03-22 09:32:28 TME said: A mortality rate of 2% is nothing to write home about. People die everyday. Death is the only certainty in life.

Correction, death and taxes !

This article is a very good read and probably the way the C-19 pandemic will eventually play out in SA given our own circumstances ...

www.biznews.com/undictated/2020/03/20/herd-immunity-control-covid-19-james-myburgh

Fellow Africans, please stop stressing about this Virus !!!

We have an amazing system in place in our country !!!

Everything disappears !!!

Money, cars, airlines, Guptas, electricity, ect !!!

THIS VIRUS HAS NO FLIPPEN CHANCE !!!

On 2020-03-22 12:41:16 BOOBS53 said:
Fellow Africans, please stop stressing about this Virus !!!

We have an amazing system in place in our country !!!

Everything disappears !!!

Money, cars, airlines, Guptas, electricity, ect !!!

THIS VIRUS HAS NO FLIPPEN CHANCE !!!

Brilliant !!!....

On 2020-03-22 12:40:22 Str8up said:
This article is a very good read and probably the way the C-19 pandemic will eventually play out in SA given our own circumstances ...

www.biznews.com/undictated/2020/03/20/herd-immunity-control-covid-19-james-myburgh

Thanks, good article indeed.
Pity that most will not read it or not grasp it's contents but will purport the ignorance is bliss stance, and here even our president seems to qualify having postponed his address to the nation.
Oh well what's new eh?

Good news is I'm not showing any symptoms yet after being exposed. Pretty bored in isolation though.....

My isolation ends today, and tomorrow the possibality is there that CR is going to hit us with a lock down for a month or 2.

If it was not bad enough that I have not been able to punt for more than a month.

Takes me back to my days working for PW and sons. Spend 3+ months at a time with Mrs Palm and her daughters.

On 2020-03-22 22:10:30 Kooni said:
My isolation ends today, and tomorrow the possibality is there that CR is going to hit us with a lock down for a month or 2.

If it was not bad enough that I have not been able to punt for more than a month.

Takes me back to my days working for PW and sons. Spend 3+ months at a time with Mrs Palm and her daughters.

Well he didn't issue a lock down.