[Info-vax] [Totally OT] Covid-19, was: Re: Creating an open source version of VMS, was: Re: OpenVMS Hobbyist Notification

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 3/16/2020 12:46 PM, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
> On 3/16/20 8:43 AM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>> What you can expect:
>>
>> https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/15/uk-coronavirus-crisis-to-last-until-spring-2021-and-could-see-79m-hospitalised 
> 
> I heard a report on the news over here (being from our typical
> media must be taken with a very large grain of salt) that UK
> officials want everyone to get at least a mild case of the
> virus so that they develop natural antibodies to prevent a
> recurrence.  This compared to a a report (also in the media)
> the the CDC has said recovered cases show no sign of any
> kind of antibodies.

I don't know what they want to do.

I am pretty sure that I know what they can do: very little.

This is a type of flu virus. It is at least as contagious as
ordinary flu virus.

The obvious conclusion is that it will spread at least as much
as ordinary flu virus.

Conclusion seems obvious: most will eventually get it.

All the initiatives they are doing are not so much to
reduce the number of people that will get it but to reduce
the number of people that will get it at the same time. Aka
they are trying to spread it out over a longer time to enable
hospitals to handle.

Politicians can be more or less honest about that.

But ...

Arne