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Germany appears to be doing something right with its treatment of infected

It seems so simple. The virus isn’t spreading, it is the people who spread.
Unfortunately; Keeping social distance >1.5 meter and staying at home is apparently too much to ask from a lot of -excuse me, ignorant- folks out there. Toilet paper, going to the beach with thousands and a last drink is way too high of a priority, madness

Cheers. Happy listening, at last our kit works as good as normal.

IMHO, this end of things has not been considered enough. The economic impact in a worldwide depression that will result from a world economy grinding to a halt then contracting while everyone pays back the debts incurred to weather the storm, then CONTINUES to pull back to build the reserves they realize that they should have had all along... there will be a massive secondary wave of loss of life in future years on a purely economic basis.

After all, there are plenty of other diseases to treat and threats to life other than this one virus - including the threat of far worse viruses (Ebola) out there that require resources and money to contain and treat. Let alone that people just need to eat and have a roof.

VirusKiller, I’m curious. From whence does that username come?

Naively, I started this topic as a genuine good luck topic. Unfortunately it seems to have digressed from its original intentions.

Indeed, good luck Ian and all Hitchhikers.
As you say, this is unlikely to be short lived, and even just a few pieces of good luck would be a valuable commodity in the coming months.

Prayer is more effective.

As most discussions have want of doing - especially in an off-topic forum, Ian! 😉

You opened the door wide and seems everyone came in. I do not find the direction it has taken to be unfortunate. In fact, the two articles that VirusKiller (would still like to know the origin of the username - are you in epidemiology?) posted are excellent and extremely useful. I have already forwarded them to many others.

But we can take the more pragmatic discussion to a new thread if you’d like. Being sensitive to your intention of the topic, look for “COVID discussion” as a new topic.

Good luck all.

I used to work for McAfee...!

This was the last topic that I contributed to before we headed back to the UK "for a few days" of medical bits, only to get caught up in lockdown & spend almost 19 weeks over there, only returning to France a couple of days ago.

Hopefully everyone on here is still healthy and still 'on here'.

When I looked at the forum again I was amazed to see how many RIPs there were; some of them covid related of course. The road is going to remain bumpy (to put it mildly) for a very long time...