Posted on 03/17/2020 2:57:31 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Sky News understands the UK shifted to tougher measures on Monday partly as a result of the document produced by experts.
The government ramped up measures against the coronavirus epidemic following new predictions that the UK could otherwise have seen 250,000 deaths.
A new document published by the COVID-19 team at London's Imperial College - which is advising the government on its coronavirus response - warns the current public health threat is the "most serious" from a respiratory virus since the Spanish Flu in 1918.
They advised the UK adopts a strategy of "epidemic suppression" - for a period of potentially 18 months or more - rather than "mitigation".
Modelling of the "most effective" mitigation strategy examined had revealed that NHS capacities could be exceeded by at least eightfold - and about 250,000 people could die.
The Imperial team described the suppression of the coronavirus outbreak as "the only viable strategy at the current time" - even if the "social and economic effects of the measures which are needed to achieve this policy goal will be profound".
They said: "Many countries have adopted such measures already, but even those countries at an earlier stage of their epidemic [such as the UK] will need to do so imminently."
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How can FReepers not see what’s coming? Every concession of freedom is followed by more dire predictions and extended time frames.
Frogs in boiling water..
Despite Patient Zero in the UK unknowingly beginning to infect people 2 weeks later than in the US, new daily deaths in the UK now exceed the US. That’s a problem - for the UK:
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/uk
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us
It’s depressing reading about these new coronavirus developments. I’m going to watch something uplifting about a response to epidemics. I understand that there’s a series called 12 Monkeys that sounds like it could be a comedy. Maybe I’ll check it out.
‘The Walking Dead’ is much funnier and the series has run much longer.
Yes, I have noticed that. It is almost as if we are preparing for something else.... Something we don’t know about or can’t see yet.
Also seems Sharia Utopia. Alcohol, pets, freedom of assembly, venturing out only with permission, etc...... Just sayin.
I dunno. 20 years of tough talk about independent ruggedness and freedom by too many turned out just to be a lie.
Now they’re talking 18 Months!!! In the US!!
Like I said, straight through the election and past the time to protest the results.
The deep state played this one beautifully.
You’d think this was the plague for God’s sake
I wonder what the next state backed terrorist attack will be and have been pondering the “what ifs” of an urban fentanyl bomb... or mass exodus of urbanites into the rural areas in search of TP or hand sanitizer...
From this article, you won’t find out whether the Brits have any more evidence than we do that the disease is a threat to people without pre-existing conditions. The HIV-positive crowd in the UK must be huge. Let them quarantine themselves.
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