why panic?

[John470322]

In 2018, there were 6,507 suicides registered in the UK,
Statistics on reported road casualties in Great Britain for the year ending June 2018 show there were 1,770 reported road deaths.
In the construction industry an average of 36 fatalities to workers and five to members of the public each year over the last five years;
That is an average of 542 suicides every month,147 deaths on the roads and three construction workers killed. Combined that is 693 deaths each month or about 23 deaths every day.
The 2019–20 coronavirus disease was confirmed to have spread to the United Kingdom on 31 January from China when the first two cases with the respiratory disease COVID-19, caused by the new coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, were confirmed in Newcastle upon Tyne.
That is about 6 weeks so while ten people have died from coronavirus about 743 will have committed suicide and 202 will have been killed on UK roads.
Since coronavirus started there have been 10 deaths in the UK, less than half the number of deaths from suicide and RTA in a single day. It is approximately the same as the average number of construction workers killed in six weeks but that is never mentioned.
Why is all the reporting on every news channel about the one virus and not about the deaths from other causes?
I hate to quote him but Corporal Jones in Dad’s Army seems to have the right idea when he says “Don’t panic”.
Take sensible precautions, wash your hands. Pay attention and don’t use a handheld mobile when driving, if you feel stressed ask for help. Use safety gear when working at heights.
There is nothing new, you do not need 100 toilet rolls, you just need to take sensible precautions.

Coronavirus is not in anyway comparable to suicide, normal flu, deaths from cancer or anything else. Surely you have gathered that by now so please don't tell people not to panic.

Wow, yet another of these ridiculous posts. I thought we were done with them.

OP - more people die in road traffic accidents each year than are killed in bear attacks. But if you were facing a pack of bears heading straight in your direction, you would do everything you could to put some (social) distance between you and them, not just sit sanguinely saying "this is fine, I'm more likely to be killed in a car crash"

Well, if we are all on lockdown, I suppose RTAs and stabbings might go down a bit.

OP I agree with much of what you say, but unfortunately you won’t get through to the majority of posters on here, who are absolutely determined to panic - despite it not helping anyone.

The virus first reached the UK at the end of January and so far there have been 11 deaths out of an estimated 5,000 to 10,000 people who have caught it.

That means just 0.002 of those who have it have died so far (and that’s assuming the more conservative figure of 5,000 have contracted it). People really need to get this in perspective.

There was a doctor on the BBC tonight saying he thought that predictions of a peak in 10-12 weeks’ time are pessimistic - he thinks we’ll have reached the peak in around two weeks time and that it will get better as the weather warms up.

Then it’ll all be over and the posters panicking over this can go back to panicking over Brexit.

Try dying slowly from drowning and then multiply that a million times between now and the end of the year. Then add another million people fighting for their lives. Jesus Fucking Christ.

So please don't tell people not to panic.

@Dongdingdong
I'm afraid people who get it don't just pop their clogs in a couple of days. It takes 4-6 weeks.

We are not even in to the curve of this pandemic yet, we are still in the flat before the curve.

We may be lucky and it might not spread as predicted but thats unlikely which means by the end of this the likelyhood is around 1% of our population could be dead and there won't have been enough hospital beds never mind staff to treat the sickest of us.

None of us have ever faced anything like this ever.

I'm not advocating panic but ffs use your logic!

I'm afraid people who get it don't just pop their clogs in a couple of days. It takes 4-6 weeks.

What’s your point? It doesn’t change the fact that you’re extremely unlikely to catch CV at the moment.

Why panic about a global pandemic, with Europe declared as the new epicentre?

None of us have ever faced anything like this ever.

Actually we have - swine flu was only 11 years ago and that killed 457 people in the UK (far fewer than the experts at the time were predicting, incidentally).

The UK has over 600,000 deaths annually.
Sadly many of the people vulnerable to COVID 19 are people who would likely die in the next year or two so will form a good chunk of the 'normal' death rate rather than being additional to it. So it isn't 500,000 extra deaths.

And tbh there's very little we can do about it except take sensible precautions with vulnerable people.

Thing is I'm not going to commit suicide, I don't work on a building site, I don't have a car so don't travel by road.

I'm not going to die of any of the other things.

Covid 19 could kill anyone. That's why people are scared.

John your a twat. Come back in the Autumn please be interesting to hear back from you.

What a stupid post OP.

See you back here in afew weeks, and see what your opinion is then, hopefully we are both alive!!!

Take a look at my SARS thread.

You put yearly stats in your OP - but you realise over 1000 people have died in Italy, since it's first confirmed cases on 31/1 (2 Chinese tourists in Rome).

First deaths recorded February 22nd - since then over 1000 deaths.

You don't think that's a bit of an emergency?

Google worldometer coronavirus.

People are already unable to get treatment that was routine last month. Seriously ill people, unable to get to hospital. Families unable to visit their very ill loved ones because wards are shut.

And we are right at the start.

Do you understand 'exponential'?

hopefully we are both alive!!!

FFS you're only at risk of dying from the virus if you're elderly or have Co morbidities. It's a virus. They hype and hysteria is fucking ridiculous

When the doctors and nurses I know are afraid, then I'm afraid. They're terrified of what's ahead. They know it will be awful. Take your patronising advice and shove it.

You're an idiot

@Veterinari good sensible accurate post.

I'm a healthcare professional by the way