A secret British government document has painted a very grim picture about the ongoing coronavirus apocalypse. It says that 80 percent of the British population could get infected and that many millions of people will need to be hospitalized.
The coronavirus epidemic in the UK will last until next spring and could lead to 7.9 million people being hospitalised, a secret Public Health England (PHE) briefing for senior NHS officials reveals.
The document, seen by the Guardian, is the first time health chiefs tackling the virus have admitted that they expect it to circulate for another 12 months and lead to huge extra strain on an already overstretched NHS.
It also suggests that health chiefs are braced for as many as 80% of Britons becoming infected with the coronavirus over that time.
Prof Chris Whitty, the government’s chief medical adviser, has previously described that figure as the worst-case scenario and suggested that the real number would turn out to be less than that. However, the briefing makes clear that four in five of the population “are expected” to contract the virus.
The document says that: “As many as 80% of the population are expected to be infected with Covid-19 in the next 12 months, and up to 15% (7.9 million people) may require hospitalisation.”
It is hard to see how the British hospital system would be able to handle this amount of infected people.
Granted, these are just estimated projections, but I would believe these estimates over others since these figures were not meant for public consumption. They obviously didn’t want them published as the numbers are bad enough to cause a potential mass panic.
The British are already looking at forcing anybody over the age of 70 into isolation.
Queen Elizabeth has already left Buckingham Palace.
Queen Elizabeth II leaves Buckingham Palace with plans for quarantine over coronavirus https://t.co/e1uoyDGNvg pic.twitter.com/xrPmy1OSNu
— New York Post (@nypost) March 15, 2020
Meanwhile Katie Hopkins is on Twitter telling people to just purposefully get the disease.
Will you all stop flapping your gums? Generation selfish have been raised to think ONLY of themselves. #coronavirus is a team sport
Get it. Get immunity. Feel better. The herd triumphs
Do not fear death. Everyone has an end. It’s just the timing that is uncertain
#60% of U.K
— Katie Hopkins (@KTHopkins) March 13, 2020
This is certainly shaping up to be quite the situation. Funnier and funnier things keep happening and I fully expect that increasingly funnier things will happen. This is just the beginning of the fun that we will see unfold.
