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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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HughGRection 1 point ago +2 / -1

Because it was needed to buy time. It most probably didn't change the Outlook by as large a factor as this guy seems to be saying, though

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accountable 0 points ago +2 / -2

America, did we learn anything here?

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deleted 3 points ago +3 / -0