That's okay BUT it's the children of the families that I feel sorry for.

Idiots there

Stupid is as stupid does. They are putting their lives in the hands of their non-existent god.

@anglophone All true, but they are also putting untold numbers of others at risk as well.

@KKGator Yes, and that their culpable stupidity puts other people at such risk makes me angry.

Will they, though?

And regardless of differences in views, is it really okay to say it's great for people to die?

Is that what were doing here?

@BryanLV if they are that stupid as to congregate in the midst of a pandemic, evolution and the law of probability will take care of the weakest links, regardless of what I say or do or you say or do or wish. So spare me your holier than thou attitude.

@Mofo1953 You are definitely holier than me.

@BryanLV Wow, brilliant and very original retort. Amazing!

@Mofo1953 Very original?

@BryanLV sarcasm is a bitch.

The Uk has gone further. NO religious services except funerals. Most fast food outlets have stopped even take-aways. McDonald's, Subway, etc.

@273kelvin I'd be okay then, haven't had Maccas or Subway for ages, don't miss them either, BUT I do enjoy my 'Sunday" lunch from our very nerby Fish and Chips outlet after I get the Sunday paper.

@Triphid My chip shop across the road is still open

Give 'em time the virus will do as it will but sadly there are possibly many of us Heathens and Heretics may just succumb as well, though I most sincerely hope not.

@Triphid dude, people arent dying. More than 95% of people get flu like symptoms or less.

@BryanLV Have actualy seen the Covid 19 Death Toll world-wide lately?

@Triphid Just read back, man. Im not rehashing when ive already stated my positions.

@BryanLV So, what you are saying is that "more than 95% of people get flu like syptoms or less," is that correct?
So what happens to the remaining 4-5% of those who contract Covid 19, do they just simple disappear into thin air or something?
Wake up and smell reality, Covid 19 IS killing people.

@Triphid You tell me.

@BryanLV As at 12.00 noon on the 25th. of March, 2020 the W.H.O. ( World Health Organisation) reports that there have been 19,024 REPORTED Fatalities caused by Covid 19 across the world and the Fatality rate is STILL rising.
Are you enlightened as yet BryanLV?

@Triphid 12,000 people in the us have died from influenza between Oct. 1, 2019 through Feb. 1, 2020, and the number of deaths may be as high as 30,000. 

The CDC also estimates that up to 31 million Americans have caught the flu this season, with 210,000 to 370,000 flu sufferers hospitalized because of the virus. 

Globally, the World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that the flu kills 290,000 to 650,000 people per year. 

Please. Do tell me more.

[cdc.gov]

@Triphid We also know for a fact that testing is minimal and most people who contract covid have mild to no symptoms.

That certainly implies that the mortality rate much, much lower than is being reported, because many infected carriers are never tested and show no symptoms.

@BryanLV Yes the ordinary, for lack of a better term/phrase, kills hundreds of thousands every year BUT Covid 19 is NOT an ordinary mutation of Influenza is it?

Yes, Bryan, all of them died when they got home. Every single one.

There, a stupid answer to a monumentally stupid question.

@Corden At least my stupid question was funny, though.

I am going to steal that one.

@anglophone Be my guest, don't forget to thank Forest Gump.