It is however very worrying that he has gone from hospitalisation to ICU that quickly, that won't be for extra oxygen, it will be for ventilation or ECMO and if he is in ICU he is no longer in charge.
I am genuinely deeply scared by this whole terrible illness, people just drop off a cliff, too many people are dying in very short periods of time.
You are not alone, Jim. Most people are deeply scared. The mental health of the world is suffering if the truth be told. I know there have been wars and suchlike around the world in the past but people could relate to the enemy to concentrate their determination. This invisible enemy is frightening and staying mentally strong for all of us is a big challenge. Having children is a major worry too. It is not good and the only thing we can do is to try to remain strong in our thoughts and try to focus our resolve.
Gove self isolating. https://mobile-reuters-com.cdn.ampp...health-coronavirus-britain-gove-idUSL9N2BB02Q
The latest stats from the ONS (which is up until 27 March) are not that alarming. https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopula...nalfiguresondeathsregisteredinenglandandwales Can someone better informed on the situation tell me if I should be concerned by the ONS data or if there are other factors at play which make the data look relatively banal? Main points from latest release The provisional number of deaths registered in England and Wales in the week ending 27 March 2020 (Week 13) was 11,141; this represents an increase of 496 deaths registered compared with the previous week (Week 12) and 1,011 more than the five-year average. A total of 150,047 deaths were registered in England and Wales between 28 December 2019 and 27 March 2020 (year to date), and of these, 647 involved the coronavirus (COVID-19) (0.4%); including deaths that occurred up to 27 March but were registered up to 1 April, the number involving COVID-19 was 1,639.
Again this is not about the number of dead or infected right now, it is about what would happen if it were left unchecked, it is self evidently clear from the stress the health service is already under, that with unchecked expansion this thing would have killed hundreds of thousands, and the proportion would have been greater because of lack of access to ICU and other intensive treatment facilities. People would have been dying in large numbers at home because there was nowhere to go.
We are in a trade off situation where if we kill the economy we kill the virus. If we preserve the economy we encourage the virus. It remains to be seen how we get out of this.
