hnd

The common flu virus is still far more deadly than Coronavirus but you don’t see people being quarantined, considering cancelling holidays, panic buying basics etc

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/a...UK-winter.html

https://www.globalresearch.ca/flu-bi...dlines/5701932

Pongo

All schools to close for 4 weeks from Sunday....transfer the risk elsewhere but sensible move?

Millhouse

it’s a weird move to delay the closure by basically a week.

Cypselos

That's not true though is it. Your mortality risk for flu is about 1 in 2000. For Coronavirus it's about 1 in 30. Even taking into account asymptomatic cases and and mild undiagnosed ones it's clearly killing people at a much higher rate, and is more deadly.

your link said 15 million people got the flu in the states in 2018-19. Covid19 's mortality rate on that many infections would mean upto 450,000 dead.

I wouldn't be concerned about suffering from it personally. I would be very concerned to passing it on to my diabetic 74 year old Mum.

Cypselos

Distance learning not ready to go?

Infection modelling suggests they have another week or so before it matters?

Millhouse

I'd be very surprised if any science was used!

Cypselos

It seems unlikely doesn't it. perhaps they just wanted to give everyone a couple of days to get childcare sorted!

scrubbedexpat141

If I was a teacher I'd offer the wealthiest, busiest parents some tutoring on the side. I'll keep your scumbag kids busy learning and you keep earning.

Millhouse

don't the teachers have to go in, clean and run webex sessions?

csdf

The number is actually around 35 million in 2018-2019, from a more reliable source (the CDC: https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/index.html).

Cypselos

The distance learning/webinar tech guys must think it's Christmas.

If only there was some sort of easily accessible platform that allowed you to host classes of up to 50 with video calls. Maybe an app you could use on your phone?

scrubbedexpat141

Clean.

They've moved Easter holidays to next two weeks, then after that it's two weeks of teaching kids at home somehow. Fudge knows what that means but we're on holiday around then so she won't be doing it anyway. In fact, she doesn't even teach anymore really so it'll be making other teachers teach kids who don't want to be taught, over a medium that you can't control in houses with parents who don't want to be there or in fact anywhere near the spawn they regret creating to avoid a virus none of them probably have. It's perfectly normal.

Millhouse

I imagine that the kids will all sit in front of the laptop with the camera running while playing a class-wide game of Rainbow Seige on the xbox on the TV behind the laptop. It's what I would do.

scrubbedexpat141

I wouldn't be near the laptop, I'd be chasing girls down the street or playing football somewhere.

Anyway, they've got 2 weeks of fun, it's technically Easter holidays on Sunday.

HiHo

Well obviously I left your prediction a few days to stew. The Japanese are postponing The Olympics Games, Glastonbury is in danger, THE GALSTO! Is a middle east trade fair worth fanning the flames of a Global epidemic for? You may still believe so but I suspect attitudes will change as the virus spreads around the globe. At the rate Emirates are firing people there will be nobody left to fly people to it even if they were so devil-may-care to attend.