So I won't get in trouble if I give away other people's movies, TV series, applications and games for free? I can make copies of those at negligible energy cost. That would make me a hero too then, right?

Where we give away other people's cars and get lauded as heroes for it?

When everything goes to shit, look for the people who make things a little better. Don't give the assholes your attention. It's not a prank, it's sabotage.

The traffic peak is in the evening. Daytime has bandwidth to spare.

Bandwidth is like muscle strength: Use it or lose it. Network operators will not maintain bandwidth that isn't used and they will not upgrade if bandwidth utilization isn't close to or at capacity. The net will only deliver what you demand of it.

Network operators need to upgrade. If you don't use the bandwidth, then you are telling them not to upgrade. They only build the capacity you use. A fast network comes from using the bandwidth, not from "conserving" it.

Why is that not modded to -1 yet? No, that's not a "poor man's vaccine". That's how you get infected. That's like telling people you can fast charge an iPhone by putting it in a microwave oven (which DOES NOT WORK. DO NOT TRY!). There are dumb people who will try this.

If you want to help them, go fund them. Don't pretend to be them.

Note that "the more realistic infection rate is three to five times higher than tested confirmed statistics" means that confirmed infections lag behind actual infections by merely seven to nine days. It's not a qualitatively different situation. You really should not play the numbers game. The hospitals are already in distress. The situation is bad and it's obvious to anybody who cares to look. It really doesn't matter if 100000 people are infected or 500000. There is much more than enough potential for more people to become infected, completely overwhelming treatment capacity. This will result in skyrocketing mortality. Young people are much more likely to survive than old people, but they do get severely sick too and need treatment. If they can't get it, because there are too many sick people, then they die regardless of their young age.

I am the admin of my own devices and I decide what software gets installed on them. If you want to install spy software, bring your own device. No, I'm not letting that onto my network. No, it won't have a microphone or camera that I can't remove in my home.

It is not yet known how long immunity to this new corona virus will last. Immunity to the other similar virus types lasts from 2 to 10 years. If immunity turns out to be rather short, we may need regular vaccinations, like for the flu, or rely on early detection and better antiviral treatments. We may also try to eliminate it "completely" by being very vigilant about detection and isolating any new cases when COVID-19 is on the decline.

Whoever developed that "death rate is probably lower than expected" play hopefully becomes one of the severe cases. It's not about the death rate under ideal circumstances, you numbnuts. People of all ages are in ICUs for treatment that they need to survive. Younger people are highly likely to survive with treatment, but they die if the treatment isn't available because you idiots don't understand that the point of "flattening the curve" isn't to limit who gets it but how quickly people get it. China has acted a lot more responsibly than YOU.

1000 deaths count against those who were known to be infected a week ago. Newer cases are most likely not represented in the death toll, but are already in the current case count. The number of cases increases by 20% a day, which means it multiplies by 3.5 per week. In conclusion, the 1000 deaths came from about 60000 cases. The actual mortality, as far as the statistics can be relied on this early, is 1.7%, and that's before hospitals run out of ventilators.

My brother treats people who have COVID-19 and he says it's not affecting just the elderly, it's going to leave long lasting or permanent damage in severe cases, resources are almost down to where they need to start making triage decisions and this is with strong "flatten the curve" measures. Generally speaking, only a few got it so far and virtually nobody is immune, so not doing anything is just accepting that the load on the hospitals will be several times what they can bear and that will make the mortality shoot through the roof. The people need treatment, whether you know the name of the virus or not. If the UK wants to be the control group after all, well, sucks for the people who won't have a say in it.

There will be people who benefit enormously from the Coronavirus. Decisions on that scale shift a lot of money. People are justifiably skeptical about big claims. Profiteers like to use times of crisis. Tacking ideology ("capitalism has failed") onto scientific discussions is one of the ways they try to create the change that benefits them. Much easier to hide shenanigans than when everything runs smoothly and people have time to question big changes.