Germany is like the acid test for the rest of the world.

People who say no children and young people can get it are obviously wrong.

But i also would say some have a disproportionate anxiety and willingness to overstate the danger that young people and children are in individually. There is a small risk of serious illness and death which is tragic and there are some high profile cases that have been reported. But the vast majority of young people and children won’t die / get major symptoms that is just what the evidence shows right now. I actually think the wide reporting of every single young person who got the disease seriously seems to have curbed from a few weeks ago and I think this might be a good thing.

Plus as I said the other day if it’s not going to go away or come back seasonally it’s probably better off getting it in the summer / now when hospitals are at low capacity and spreading it out so children and younger people get it now while the elderly and most at risk are sheltered

Hopefully these anti body tests will be very informative

Covid is a threat to everyone but to avoid mass panic we were told that it was the vulnerable who were in danger most.

The experts of JA606 have spoken.



Anyone who says ‘scientists have come out and declared...’ clearly doesn’t have a clue.

Part of the issue we have here is that the answers to these questions are unknown at present. It will take months and years to come to conclusions about why the virus hit some countries and some sections of the population harder, about where it spreads and why, and about the best approach to tackling it.

It’s also completely untrue to say that the data shows we’re about to experience a second spike.

So much data, too many amateur opinions and a desperation to come to conclusions.

Simplism and confirmation bias on display in spades.

comment by (kash) I'm the Mané - 6 Times Baby (U1108)
posted 31 minutes ago
Covid is a threat to everyone but to avoid mass panic we were told that it was the vulnerable who were in danger most.
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COVID is a threat to everyone: true, that does not mean an equal threat to everyone.
If you are vulnerable you are ‘in danger most’: well isn’t this the basic principle/definition of vulnerability. This is true for COVID as is true for most disease.

comment by (kash) I'm the Mané - 6 Times Baby (U1108)
posted 33 minutes ago
Covid is a threat to everyone but to avoid mass panic we were told that it was the vulnerable who were in danger most.
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I’ve not seen anything to suggest otherwise though?

The stats are quite clear. Younger healthier folk are less affected. However, that's not to say that a bunch of elite athletes need to be Guinea pigs. Timing has to be right and they have a right to be certain they are not taking any nnecesaary risk. Lots here have said theres still a lot unknown about the virus. This is true and demonstrates that risk is still high.

I’d say a bunch of elite athletes should be the first considering they are young, and fit and more healthy than most, why should 40 year old Julie from marks and Spencer who gets paid £2000 a month have to work 5 days a week on the checkout but a 30 year old footballer who earns around £200,000+ a month can’t

Just trying to use as an example. We let supermarket workers work but we won’t let footballers play football. Very backwards

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comment by AFC Bash (U21751)
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By the way I am 47 years old and got covid and recovered a while time ago around late February.

I was in Dubai and recovered there mine was just bad headache and a flu like symptoms didn’t cough at all but had sore throat and after a week or so felt better and returned back home. I know exactly how I got infected and it was inside Emirates to Dubai the bloke sitting next to me in middle lane row was sneezing and coughing like hell I was worried he might collapse and die in the plane and that time no one was self isolating so he must have infected the whole plane load.

I did Covid antibodies test.
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This is weird because I've had these symptoms. Slight, distant headache, but sometimes sharp, coming and going, that focussed on the back part of my head going down to the top of my neck.

Throat was irritated for a couple of nights but can't say it was sore, there was just discomfort. Producing little sputum without actually having a cough etc.

One thing you didn't mention is that I felt the slight discomfort in breathing(that term makes it sound worse) but nothing concerning because all these symptoms are not new as I've previously had them when suffering from a regular cold or flu.

I wasn't sure what it was so I just isolated for 14 days. I spent the whole time videoconferencing, playing games and posting on here.

I try not to take medicine when I have a cold. Symptoms lasted 2-4 days perhaps. It seemed to end quickly when I read a seemingly factual article about covid and vitamin D. Took a big spoon of cod liver oil for two nights in a row and the third day I was completely fine. That's was two weeks ago.

Flying into Geneva next week, hoping not to be told to quarantine, and I hope to procure a test that can tell me whether it was covid or not. Symptoms were similar to flus I've had before so can't be sure.
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Glad you feel better for me I didn’t experience breathing issues other than little wheezing but it cleared away Must have been very mild and am not sure if am cured now or can get again this time worse.

Actually, some people especially nurses or Doctors die from this virus if they get larger dose so it’s basically contagious. We might have sent man to the moon however, Mother Nature shows us we’re just pants with massive egos unable to tame the slightest of any pandemic.

Our busy lifestyles have to be changed to benefit the poor, sick and also protect the environment or we will be eradicated from this earth for our greed

It’s been reported that Covid is fatal to some athletes especially their lungs that it might impact their short careers so it’s understandable that some athletes are too cautious before committing to playing under these circumstances.

We should play a game of "and they said..." Where we give one example of something happening and then use that evidence to imply that the same is true of all which have a similar characteristic.

But then again we might accidentally end up getting elected.

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Of course it can hit anyone hard, I know that SA swimmer had a bad case of it. But equally, what’s the death rate for under 45s it’s something like 400?

comment by ttliv87 (U11882)
posted 11 minutes ago
Don't get the point of this article. The news were doing something similar a few weeks ago showing young people dying, making a point that young people are vulnerable to this too. There have been 2 unfortunate deaths in the 0-14 age group and 382 deaths among the 15-44 age group. Considering the 15-44 age group has probably had at least at least 1 million infections (the Public Health England/ Cambridge model suggests over 3 million infections) a death rate of 38.2 deaths per 100k cases is literally in the range of flu mortality. The reason the average mortality rate of this illness is so high is because it affects the elderly and those with co-morbidities hugely disproportionately. Most illnesses are worse for the elderly but COVID takes this to a whole new level. So yes if you want to cancel an event involving young healthy adults for safety concerns due to COVID you should be doing the same whenever we have an influenza epidemic too.
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It also hits hard as it is so infective. Infect so fast, faster than influenza does, loads of people infected. Even the minority that do get it bad leads to high numbers. If influenza could infect as much as coronavirus does it would cause a similar issue