(05-04-2020, 01:46 PM)flsprtsgod Wrote:

(05-04-2020, 01:09 PM)DragonFury Wrote: If this would only affect your health or only my I wouldn't give a crap and I'd say let the season go ahead and run the risk of infections. But that's not the case here. As we've seen in Europe a single soccer match with one or two infected in the crowd can lead to dozens or even hundreds more infected. All those people then go on to infect even more people and so on and so on. And all it takes is one of those people visit their grandparents in the retirement home and then the retirement home is infected as well and people start dying.

And continuing on, the number of infected keeps growing, soon after that, the hospitals are overwhelmed, and then the ICU's are swamped. Doctors will face the choice of choosing who they let die and who they put on the ventilators, simply because they don't have the capacity to put everyone on the ventilators. And that's just from the virus itself, meanwhile the normal care continues to put a demand on the hospitals as well. People coming in with acute needs like heart attacks likely won't be able to get the care they need because the hospital is packed with corona patients, not to mention the risk they run of catching the virus themselves.

This is exactly what happened in Wuhan, and then Italy, and Spain, and it's what would have happened in a lot places had they not put stringent rules in place about social contact and social distancing. In the end, it's not about you and your choice, you selfish git. It's about everyone's health and safety.

Current testing is showing that the proliferation of COVID-19 happened much sooner than we knew, many more people than we know have already been infected and recovered, and that the fatality rate is consistent with an average flu season globally. Anyway, carry on.