My concern is that we have managed to eradicate so much from the world that we forget how awful some of these things can be. How much are the moderate illness people going to flood the NHS because they dont understand how bad moderate will feel
Yes. I have been noticing a lot of people on MN describing what I would term as a 'nasty cold' (I think I must have an overactive immune system or something!) as if it were really unusual, which doesn't bode well for 111, who will have to answer their calls if they get covid19.
I rather suspect that when WHO says 'mild symptoms' it may not mean what it does on the street, which is something like 'got an annoying tickly cough, and a headache that can be treated by paracetamol'.
WHO probably mean 'no hospital treatment necessary', and that's a very broad church indeed. There are a lot of ways to feel as if death would be a merciful release without medical assistance being required!