The information on deaths is actually unsure. Because while people with Coronavirus have died, many of those would have died of the underlying health conditions they already had.
The woman who was the first to die in the UK was already in ICU with a serious illness not related to coronavirus.
And yes, I agree with PP (as do the experts to a certain extent) that healthy, not-at-risk people do need to catch it in order to build herd immunity to protect those at greater risk.
There’s a vast difference between awareness and hysteria such as is happening on some of the threads on here, some even so distasteful that they have been deleted.
And the reality is that the more the hysteria ramps up, the less likely people are to take notice of the sensible advice because the panic-mongerers are too busy whipping up a panic which most people are ignoring and the real messages are being lost.
Being reasonable needs to come from both sides.
people do need to be aware, and tbh there’s a lesson in hygiene there anyway, but from the other side people need to stop panic-buying and de-registering their children from school, and insisting that a bit of a hit on the economy is a small price to pay.
There is middle ground here.
My DP was in boots earlier and he saw several people abusing members of staff because they A, had no hand sanitiser, and B, didn’t know when they would be getting any more.
The majority of people don’t need hand sanitiser, whereas in the meantime people with real need such as my friend with serious medical issues, on dialysis three times a week needs it because of the amount of time she spends at/in hospital. So she either has to settle for paying £150 for it on amazon, or go without and be the one being put at genuine risk.
All the healthy people who are not in at-risk categories are actually putting those at risk at more risk due to their hysteria.