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paulca:

--- Quote from: GreyWoolfe on May 02, 2020, 12:00:08 pm ---We just shifted to Microsoft Team Meeting.  I always mute my phone myself unless I need to speak.

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Yep, that's what I do.  Except one day, for some reason I didn't.  Not realising I was not muted, I decided to burp.  People on the call halted for just a second and then carried on and that was when I noticed I wasn't muted!  I figured they didn't know which one of did it, but it was very funny.
Zero999:
I was thinking this morning, how fortunate it is this didn't happen over 30 years ago, when I was my nephew's age. Back then, the Internet was in its infancy and few people could work from home so the economic impact would have been worse. On the other hand, some of the people who experienced the 1918 pandemic would have still been around and would been able to provide advice and support to deal with it, fewer people flew around the world spreading the virus and a large part of the world was still sealed off by the iron curtain.
coppice:

--- Quote from: Zero999 on May 02, 2020, 01:55:23 pm ---I was thinking this morning, how fortunate it is this didn't happen over 30 years ago, when I was my nephew's age. Back then, the Internet was in its infancy and few people could work from home so the economic impact would have been worse. On the other hand, some of the people who experienced the 1918 pandemic would have still been around and would been able to provide advice and support to deal with it, fewer people flew around the world spreading the virus and a large part of the world was still sealed off by the iron curtain.

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This happened in 1957. This happened in 1968. We just lived with what was happening, and got on with our lives. Suspiciously, if you look up either of those pandemics they say a million people died. The same round number being quoted for 2 events sounds suspiciously like hand waving, so its hard to know how much to trust the numbers. The death toll would no doubt be higher this time without some isolation, as there are more people around, living closer, and there has been a huge increase in the number of elderly people in the world, who are showing a high death rate from covid-19.
nctnico:

--- Quote from: coppice on May 02, 2020, 02:16:03 pm ---
--- Quote from: Zero999 on May 02, 2020, 01:55:23 pm ---I was thinking this morning, how fortunate it is this didn't happen over 30 years ago, when I was my nephew's age. Back then, the Internet was in its infancy and few people could work from home so the economic impact would have been worse. On the other hand, some of the people who experienced the 1918 pandemic would have still been around and would been able to provide advice and support to deal with it, fewer people flew around the world spreading the virus and a large part of the world was still sealed off by the iron curtain.

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This happened in 1957. This happened in 1968. We just lived with what was happening, and got on with our lives. Suspiciously, if you look up either of those pandemics they say a million people died.

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I did some reading into these pandemics. It seems these where multi-year events and it is not like people wheren't travelling at all back then. My parents have not mentioned these pandemics so far because appearantly no drastic measures where taken. If you look at the mortality rate of the Covid-19 virus which seems to be around the 0.5% to 1% we could be looking at 10 million to 100 million dead world wide. Remember most parts of the world are just 2 months in.
coppice:

--- Quote from: nctnico on May 02, 2020, 05:24:50 pm ---
--- Quote from: coppice on May 02, 2020, 02:16:03 pm ---This happened in 1957. This happened in 1968. We just lived with what was happening, and got on with our lives. Suspiciously, if you look up either of those pandemics they say a million people died.

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I did some reading into these pandemics. It seems these where multi-year events and it is not like people wheren't travelling at all back then. My parents have not mentioned these pandemics so far because appearantly no drastic measures where taken. If you look at the mortality rate of the Covid-19 virus which seems to be around the 0.5% to 1% we could be looking at 10 million to 100 million dead world wide. Remember most parts of the world are just 2 months in.

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No drastic measures were taken in 1957 or 1968. We just went on with our lives. I was a toddler in 1957, but I was in high school in 1968 and well aware of what was going on. Schools didn't use any special procedures to reduce infection. Neither did businesses. Travel in 1957 was quite limited, but by 1968 the airline industry was big enough to spread everything everywhere quite quickly. I wouldn't call the 1968 one multi-year, but things definitely spread slower back then, even the normal annual flu strains.

If 1% of people is up 100 million, you seem to think that up to 10 billion people will be infected. There are only 8 billion people, so where are the other 2 billion going to come from?  ;) People get freaked out by the idea of biological warfare, but if you look at publicly available research nothing ever proves infectious enough for everyone to get it.
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