| Comment | Or C) follow the WHO advice to take prompt action on individual early outbreaks (such as disinfecting this sports centre) so that the chances of A) ever being required are reduced.
> 97-99% of people will recover from
I guess it depends on whether you think 3% of the population of the country - about 1.5m people across the UK - is something worth avoiding or not.
> This virus has thrown a light on peoples sense of risk. You are many orders of magnitude more likely to die of heart disease, cancer, car accidents etc than this.
False equivalence as risk is usually described in deaths/million people/year - over the next 12 months, if there were a full blown epidemic, you would be far more likely to die of coronavirus than any of those things. |
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