Something to think about the 2017/ 2018 was a terrible flu season . One of the worse on record , in the U S
51000 perished 710,000 U s citizens got the type A in the fall and type B in the spring. Wife and I got the type A it was bad to the bone . Freezing with a fever , went to the doc . He gave us some meds a week later we were Ok........Something I heard one of the meds they are experimenting with is Z PAC. . I don’t know much about it but last Fall a lot of people were taking it . Wife and son both had to take it for respiratory problems . They coughed like a monster nose ran and ran a fever for about 3 days . It worked.


Something else last August when we were leaving Dublin returning to Amsterdam . I was talking to a lady from Australia. . She worked for the Australian center of health and disease control. When we ended the conversation she said . When you get back to the states get your flu shot , this is going to be a bad year. . I asked her how she knew ,she told me Australia was already experiencing a bad flu season . August is end of their cold season . Came home to get my flu shot and CVS said the flu shot was late getting out. . Three weeks later they had it.

They never predict the severity of a flue season simply because they never know which strain will be most dominant or virulent. COVID-19 is not the flu which means your whole post is bunk.

de Telegraaf is writing.
the existing ban on public gatherings extends until June 1
....police would now be given the power to break up groups of more than three people in public and levy “heavy fines”


ok I guess the window ban also includes this extension as prostitution is considering a risk factor..?
I have a trip planned in the end of june. I really hope this will be over by then but most certainly not.

https://www.telegraaf.nl/nieuws/1632213 ... i-verboden

Info as of 23 march:

https://www.government.nl/latest/news/2 ... oronavirus

"Businesses in contact-based industries, ... , must be closed until 6 April. "

Additional info (in dutch)

https://www.rijksoverheid.nl/actueel/ni ... n-23-maart

Note that point 4 explicitly includes escort services.

Furthermore: measures under 2-7 will be reconsidered at the latest april 6.

Of course anything can change fast these days (and usually it doesn't get better).

I am new to this forum -
But totally stuck in this corona curfew and just waiting for this go away soon - so we can enjoy the best escort services Amsterdam has to offer.

Saw contagion movie and totally panicked after seeing it - the only relief is the last 10 mins where they found a cure for it and life restores to normal.

Just wish someone launch the vaccine for this and get all business back to normal.

A vaccine isn't coming for a while. In the meantime though, there will likely be drugs to treat patients with the virus. Additionally, the virus seems slow to mutate, so those who've already had it hopefully have immunity for a while, and the eventual vaccine will likely be more effective than current flu vaccines.

I also suspect that the number of infections is significantly higher than the reported positive cases, with a lot of mild and asymptomatic cases, which means COVID-19 is likely less dangerous than many people think (that's not to downplay the seriousness of the situation; we should all still abide by the lockdown restrictions, but at least I want to bring some positive thoughts to this discussion).

I agree with you. I’ve been trying to explain your last point to people for a while. We know when someone does of covid-19 regardless of whether they were diagnosed prior to or not. There might be a few deaths that slip through the cracks, but by and large, we know the numbers. So, if we have 100 deaths in 10,000 cases, that’s a 1% mortality rate, however, if we have 10,000 known cases, we actually probably have 20-30,000 cases, but with the same number of deaths, so the mortality rate is actually probably closer to 0.5% or even 0.3%. I do echo your sentiment that it’s important to take it seriously regardless. Many of the deaths in Italy were not from the virus itself, it’s because so many people got sick all at once that they couldn’t get treatment. That’s the key. If we get lots of infections but they’re staggered over a long period, we’re fine. If we get a bunch all at once, it’s a problem.

And yeah, there are a few medications already that are being used, and a few others that are being tested. The problem, of course, is that many of these medications are not commonly prescribed, so many places don’t have much of them in stock, but again, if we all do our part and keep numbers as low as possible, it buys time to produce/order more.

As for immunity, thus far is does seem like once someone recovers, they’re immune. I haven’t heard of any cases of reinfection and I do know that in experiments with macaques, they were unable to reinfect monkeys that had previously been infected. So that’s good news. Really, there is quite a lot to be optimistic about, you just wouldn’t know it since the media’s still doing its fearmongering thing.