General   (General discussion, talk about anything.)

Were do most people get their information from regarding this "pandemic"? or any other news story? the mainstream media (printed press, online, TV, radio).

The numbers of dead don't add up for a supposed virus. Most of the people ill from this, the elderly and people with pre existing health problems, exhibit flu like symptoms. On the .gov site it says:

Status of COVID-19

As of 19 March 2020, COVID-19 is no longer considered to be a high consequence infectious diseases (HCID) in the UK.

The 4 nations public health HCID group made an interim recommendation in January 2020 to classify COVID-19 as an HCID. This was based on consideration of the UK HCID criteria about the virus and the disease with information available during the early stages of the outbreak. Now that more is known about COVID-19, the public health bodies in the UK have reviewed the most up to date information about COVID-19 against the UK HCID criteria. They have determined that several features have now changed; in particular, more information is available about mortality rates (low overall), and there is now greater clinical awareness and a specific and sensitive laboratory test, the availability of which continues to increase.

The Advisory Committee on Dangerous Pathogens (ACDP) is also of the opinion that COVID-19 should no longer be classified as an HCID.

The need to have a national, coordinated response remains, but this is being met by the government’s COVID-19 response.

Cases of COVID-19 are no longer managed by HCID treatment centres only. All healthcare workers managing possible and confirmed cases should follow the updated national infection and prevention (IPC) guidance for COVID-19, which supersedes all previous IPC guidance for COVID-19. This guidance includes instructions about different personal protective equipment (PPE) ensembles that are appropriate for different clinical scenarios.

https://www.gov.uk/guidance/high-consequence-infectious-diseases-hcid#history

So why is everyone in lockdown when there is no threat?, why are people being threatened (which it basically is) to only go if it's absolutely necessary?. I've talked to people who have taken their dogs in the car out to the middle of nowhere with not a soul to be seen, away from harmsway, yet they have had a car police show up asking them what they are doing there. Sounds to me like don't want us to go anywhere regardless if it's to do with a virus. So much for the police serving the people.

And then there's the strange co-incidences. Lots of works of fiction eerily predicting all this:

The 1981 Dean Koontz novel, 'The Eyes of Darkness', which tells the story about a deadly virus that spreads from the city of Wuhan, China.

There's also a reference to a pandemic in a Sylvia Browne novel written in 2008.

A 2017 Asterix and Obelix children's book has a character named Coronavirus.

The 2011 film Contagion, starring Lawrence Fishburne, Jude Law and Gwenyth Paltrow, about a virus that spreads from Japan.