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Well... 'Just finished a two month job working on a project off the coast of Somalia. This is usually a time for getting all excited about going home but, now, who knows when I will make it back there?
I'm still at stage one: shock/denial - and the tragedy is only just beginning...
Time for some prayers. And a little bit less of the old blind panic. And a lot more international cooperation, if you please?
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Yeah... Well... Ummm... Let's all panic and pretend that, not only is corona virus 100% instantly fatal in all cases - but there is nothing else in the world that we can possibly catch and even if we did, none of these other diseases are even half as bad as corona beer, sorry, VIRUS!!!!
And we are all going to get it and the end of the world is just around the corner?!!!
Have another beer!
Cheers!!
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UK figures, rough, annual, from a quick Google search:Deaths due to flu complications: 600 - and anything up to 10,000 in a really bad year.Road accident fatalities: 1784 - about 5 a day, on average. Injuries, obviously, are way higher (160.378 reported in 2018)Deaths due to cancer: 165,000Deaths due to heart attack and other circulatory problems (including, presumably, stroke?): 165,000Deaths due to stroke alone: 32,000And for the USA:Approximately 1.5 million heart attacks and strokes occur every year in the United States. More than 800,000 people in the United States die from cardiovascular disease each year—that's 1 in every 3 deaths, and about 160,000 of them occur in people under age 65.I don't particularly want bird flu, or SARS, or corona virus - or any other kind of bug - but let's keep these things in perspective.
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