Has anyone heard from @GideonWise? Very much hope he and his family are also on the mend. (View Post)

Lockdowns do work. It can be painful but we should be able to use the example of Italy and Spain to motivate us to keep going. What's harder is to get back to 'normal' at the end. But even there will… (View Post)

Yes - that's a very fair summary!! on the plus side, next time round we will be much better prepared (ventilators / mass testing / anti-virals) so it will not cripple us to the same extent. Having sa… (View Post)

Yeah... given the ~14 day wait until severe symptoms show, one might hope that there would be a sharper drop off in new cases after the peak, so I'm not sure we should expect it to be symmetric. I th… (View Post)

New cases and deaths % increase slowing down rapidly, the raw numbers are frightening but there is light at the end of the tunnel. oh, absolutely!! Those are really key statistics - similar to Italy … (View Post)