<story><title>London may have gone into a Covid-accelerated decline</title><url>https://www.economist.com/britain/2020/05/21/london-may-have-gone-into-a-covid-accelerated-decline</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>matz1</author><text>The virus is not gonna disappear but it doesn&amp;#x27;t mean you are going to be infected as well. If you do infected, doesn&amp;#x27;t mean you are going to have the symptom. If you do have the symptom, doesn&amp;#x27;t mean you are going to have severe symptom. If you do have severe symptom, doesn&amp;#x27;t mean you are going to require hospitalization.</text></item><item><author>kinkrtyavimoodh</author><text>Considering that the virus is here to stay for a few years at least, how can we blame them for thinking this way? Lifting the lockdown is not gonna make the virus disappear.</text></item><item><author>esotericn</author><text>The article takes a long time to essentially get around to saying this:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; But covid-19 and the extreme social-distancing measures used to combat it pose a new and more profound danger to the capital&lt;p&gt;I feel that during lockdown a fair few people have turned mildly insane - they seem to honestly believe that we&amp;#x27;re going to stand very far apart from other humans for the rest of time.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s just not the case. I&amp;#x27;ll be in the pub by the end of the year.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>roelschroeven</author><text>&amp;gt; If you do have severe symptom, doesn&amp;#x27;t mean you are going to require hospitalization.&lt;p&gt;Isn&amp;#x27;t &amp;quot;requiring hospitalization&amp;quot; pretty much the definition of &amp;quot;severe symptoms&amp;quot;? As far as I can tell, when doctors talk about &amp;quot;mild symptoms&amp;quot;, that can include anything from a mild cough to weeks of heavy fever, muscle pains, ... .&lt;p&gt;But more importantly: even if you&amp;#x27;re complete asymptomatic, you&amp;#x27;re still very likely to infect other people and contribute to the spread of the virus and the disease. That&amp;#x27;s bad for other people&amp;#x27;s health, causes extra deaths, is bad for the economy, and generally makes everything worse for everybody including yourself.</text></comment>
<story><title>London may have gone into a Covid-accelerated decline</title><url>https://www.economist.com/britain/2020/05/21/london-may-have-gone-into-a-covid-accelerated-decline</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>matz1</author><text>The virus is not gonna disappear but it doesn&amp;#x27;t mean you are going to be infected as well. If you do infected, doesn&amp;#x27;t mean you are going to have the symptom. If you do have the symptom, doesn&amp;#x27;t mean you are going to have severe symptom. If you do have severe symptom, doesn&amp;#x27;t mean you are going to require hospitalization.</text></item><item><author>kinkrtyavimoodh</author><text>Considering that the virus is here to stay for a few years at least, how can we blame them for thinking this way? Lifting the lockdown is not gonna make the virus disappear.</text></item><item><author>esotericn</author><text>The article takes a long time to essentially get around to saying this:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; But covid-19 and the extreme social-distancing measures used to combat it pose a new and more profound danger to the capital&lt;p&gt;I feel that during lockdown a fair few people have turned mildly insane - they seem to honestly believe that we&amp;#x27;re going to stand very far apart from other humans for the rest of time.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s just not the case. I&amp;#x27;ll be in the pub by the end of the year.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>johnohara</author><text>If you do require hospitalization it doesn&amp;#x27;t mean you need intensive care. If you do require intensive care it doesn&amp;#x27;t mean you are going to die.&lt;p&gt;If you are discharged from a hospital and require rehabilitation you will probably be placed in some form of nursing facility with other patients who may or may not have been infected.&lt;p&gt;The last part is the hidden disaster of the COVID-19 crisis.</text></comment>