@Cultured_Bogan said in [Coronavirus Outbreak](/post/1127769) said:
I wish people would stop talking like pandemic means death to all.
Pandemic just means that the spread of a disease is across territories/countries, not just localised communities. It does not define the mortality of a disease. H1N1 was a pandemic, and killed 200 odd people in Australia, and it affected up to a fifth of the worlds population.
Give it 4 weeks max ...the Govt's CMO's will be issuing ban on large crowd gatherings
My concerns are for the young and elderly and I have both ....My Mrs cares for our two young Godchildren twice a week .....
I'd rather be safe than sorry
So far Covid 19 has appeared to have minimal effects on the young, the elderly are a different question though with a death rate of around 15%
In treated cases .....what's going to happen if NSW has 1.5 million cases as they are talking about and we end up with say 6-7 million cases nationwide
You seem to think our health systems will cope ....I would bet against that
Our health system is going to placed under massive pressure, that is why slowing the spread, increasing the length of the peak and keeping our health care workers healthy is going to be crucial. At some point private hospitals may have to be used to fight this as well. For the majority of the population that gets infected treatment will be rest at home, others will be hospitalised but they real worry are our aged care facilities which for a large number of people will be little more than palliative care.
There have been very little reports of this having a large impact on children and even in my age group (I'm 41) the death rate is 0.4%.
I'm not downplaying this at all, but we are in a much better position than most countries to deal with this. The us is not very well resourced for what is coming!
Increasing the length of the peak, is that a typo? Maybe I don't understand. Increasing the length of the time that the virus is at its peak?