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GodEmperorsNewGroove 5 points ago +14 / -9

As far as I can tell the forecast changed AFTER accounting for the national lockdown, work from home and strict social distancing.

So.....?

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HughGRection 10 points ago +12 / -2

That stuff will end and it will have to end soon because you can't coop a society up for months on end without serious consequences. People will have to get this virus, that is absolutely inevitable. We can only hope to protect the most at risk. How did his forecast change?

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tombombadil 9 points ago +11 / -2

He just came out yesterday saying his original estimate of 500k deaths in the UK was wrong and it will be more like 20k deaths, almost all of which will be people that would have died this year anyways.

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HughGRection 5 points ago +5 / -0

Ah. Well, I don't think this quarantine will be enough to have changed the figures by that much.

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SD_Pede 3 points ago +4 / -1

Why do you think Trump is pushing the 15 day plan then?

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accountable 0 points ago +2 / -2

America, did we learn anything here?

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Fremium2020 5 points ago +6 / -1

OMG THE WHOLE CITY IS GOING TO BURN DOWN AND EVERYONE IN IT WILL BE HOMELESS AND DEAD ONCE THIS FIRE OF DEATH CONSUMES YOU ALL!!!!!!!

(someone calls the fire department)

Oh.....uh, the kitchen is just going to have some water damage.......after I accounted for calling 911.

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wootsat 5 points ago +5 / -0

Apparently the UK only started doing social distancing on March 18th, and only started to some lockdowns in parts of the UK (still not a national lockdown apparently) two days ago.

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Drizzt599 4 points ago +5 / -1

They that takes weeks to show up in data. Plus he said it would be years, now it’s weeks.

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AgarthaForever 1 point ago +2 / -1

Except that Japan did few if any of these things and are skating through the pandemic.