OT: Ho hum - less new cases today than yesterday...

FFS, FEWER! ;-)

Tim

How do you, indeed how does anyone, know?

No reporting of cases unless hospitalised.

Death reporting delayed by an indeterminate factor due to requiring family authorisation. (Very odd, in my view.)

No way of knowing if infected but not yet symptomatic.

And stopping it for now leads to the question of how we handle the unlocking down.

I think that should be read as "could stop more-or-less dead in its tracks"

SteveW

Today's numbers aren't released yet.

Actually I thought the number for yesterday was higher, and the day before lower, because they changed the reporting period, so best to average out the past two days to account for that.

fake news according to James Obrien

Not quite. What can be expected to happen is that exponential growth within isolated pockets can expected to come to a halt independently, depending on population size of the pocket, the number of carriers and its remaining isolated from other pockets. And the same can be expected to happen in all other pockets and hot spots providing they remain isolated.

As a result the overall death toll from this pandemic is going to be nowhere near as bad as was originally feared.

Although as was maybe only to be expected, any such suggestion on my part was immediately slapped down by the hard of thinking, as suggestive of the possibility of my not fully understanding of the concept of exponential growth. But such is life I suppose.

And so in reality these measures have been adopted simply so as to spare the public the spectacle of large numbers of people dying in a particularly unpleasant way within a short time-frame, and the strain this would impose both logistical and emotional on health services around the world and the people who work in them .

Whether many would have died anyway within a fairly short time is a separate issue,

Whereas in reality large numbers of people are most likely dying in various unpleasant ways all over the world every day of the week without us knowing. Either through illness brought on by inadequate sanitation or the like,or the result of malnutrition; but many largely beyond help from anyone. Only these are deaths we largely chose to ignore rather than have hourly updates - and probably hyped up by corrupt charities for their own benefit in any case. So that's all right then.

michael adams

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Tim means the subject " - less new cases.."

Ok "more or fewer dead in its tracks quite quickly.."

by intuiting from the fact that less people are being hospitalised and less are dying...

irrelevant.

no, another bit of fake news. Reported deaths delayed by time taken to collate the figures.

irrelevant.

of course. You have a penchant for stating the incorrect followed by the irrelevant followed by the bleeding obvious. Do you have a fever?

Fewer. English not your first language? ;)

Fair enough.

SteveW

Hope you've reviewed your post recently.

As it shows the stupidity of your thinking.

Judging by the lack of the usual typo's, this isn't even Turnip who is typing ??.