COVID-19 — Coronavirus

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karen7 said:
According to Public Health England, COVID-19 poses the biggest threat to those who have weaker immune systems and long-term - or chronic - illnesses.

Some of the chronic conditions said to heighten the risk among patients are:

  • Heart disease
  • Lung disease
  • Diabetes
  • High blood pressure
  • Cancer
Ireland's health services have also released a list of conditions that weaken the immune system, and include:

  • Patients undergoing treatments for cancer
  • Patients undergoing treatments for autoimmune diseases, such as rheumatoid arthritis, lupus, multiple sclerosis (MS) and inflammatory bowel diseases
  • Patients with HIV
  • Anyone who has had organ or bone marrow transplants
Asthma sufferers are also thought to be at a greater risk of being worse affected by the virus, which causes an infection in the respiratory tract.

https://news.sky.com/story/coronavi...ditions-at-greater-risk-from-illness-11958276
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That’s why I’m worried about my Mam because she has Lupus.
 
Just seen a load of half wits drinking outside a closed bar in Benidorm, singing. One said, " It's just the flu, have a beer!" before the police forced them back to their hotel. If this virus culls plenty of these morons it will be a result.
 
johnnytapia said:
We had two off today but pupil-wise, very ,mixed, one class had 8 pupils absent, others none. I can tell you 95% of our Polish parents have made the decision themselves and won't be sending their children in. Since this started we have had one email from the Local Authority. We don't know if we're still legally liable for the welfare of the children if the school closes - we're not in the holidays but this is completely unchartered territory. We've drawn up a list of our most vulnerable pupils (those on child protection plans; those with severe medical needs) and we may have senior staff checking on them but, again, does that go against the gov.advice? There are some very, very vulnerable kids/families and we cannot let them slip through the net on this. We also have 73% on Free School Meals. No information on what happens there. The idea that folk will stay away from pubs/clubs is fanciful. It needs putting in law. This isn't the time to prevaricate; it's time for decisive action.
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I taught three periods today, 8, 7 and 5 kids absent.

This announcement is going to see that figure rise.
 
Monday 16 March 2020 15:25
The friends of an 88-year-old church choir singer who died after contracting coronavirus say he got the illness at a restaurant after coming into contact with a skier returning from Italy.

Darrell Blakeley, from Middleton, Greater Manchester, died on Friday at North Manchester General Hospital after contracting COVID-19.


He was admitted to hospital on 3 March with sepsis, but was placed in quarantine having earlier had contact in a restaurant with "a skier who had returned from Italy," a statement from his local church said.

It added that he initially tested negative for the virus, but a week later received a positive result, shortly before becoming "extremely poorly and died".


https://news.sky.com/story/coronavi...cting-virus-from-skier-in-restaurant-11958214
 
Doesn't this sound like what happened in Italy? They gave out advice to stop going out, everyone said 'Vaffanculo' to the politicians and 'Salut!' to the bartender, and it took two weeks before carnage hit before they listened and all wish they'd stay'd home to begin with? Paris was supposed to be shut yesterday but it was heaving in places because THEY didn't give a fuck. Are they scared to enforce bans because people resent being told what to do? Are they ideologically unable to come to terms with government intervention, does it all feel better if they do as little as possible? Or do they genuinely believe you just cannot tell Western Europeans what to do, they need thousands of people to actually die before they can adjust to the reality that someone has shut the fucking pub because it's not safe?
 
So many people have confusion about whether to isolate or not, or how long to isolate for. This is why the government need to take the bull by the horns and tell people exactly what they have to do. It's ok advising people, but people just carry on regardless. We need a clear directive. Instead of recommending public places shut, we need to lock down.
 
worsleyweb said:
I think the key to this is understanding how many have it and are not showing major symptoms.

I heard of another mate who has gone down with it today and everywhere I turn someone is coughing.

Getting the tests out to check on people who have had it and have built up immunity is key.
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Think we're gonna be coming home Saturday mate I'm dreading it I know I will get this stay safe coz you fucking make me laugh.
 
I am finding it really interesting to look at data on the countries who are past the worst, such as China and South Korea. This is a fantastic resource for doing this:
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/#countries
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/#countries
If you click on individual countries you get a further breakdown. The "Daily new case graph" is interesting.

Here's a thing with China: it has a population of 1.435 billion and 99.994% of the population didn't get the virus. The % of the population who didn't die of it, is even higher.
 
Blue Maverick said:
So what is the actual state of play with isolating now, from what I understand if you display symptoms you isolate for 7 days but now I’m hearing if you do your whole family has to isolate for 14!! So is it 7 or 14. I’m confused as fuck.
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yeah confusing, I saw @WestGorton post on a reply that he was waiting for this Friday to come out of self isolation from a cough that started last Friday, but not sure if he has seen that update from today that it should be now 14 days which it was initially
 
domalino said:
You're basically just a glorified childcare right now for workers who would have to stop working if the schools closed.

Nor to trivialise that by the way - its keeping the economy and NHS going.
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I get that and understand it. Issue is that it won’t be long before teachers start catching it and then what happens?

We’ve been asked about volunteering to come in if we do close to look after NHS workers kids. I’d be happy to do that.
 
I think anyone who claims it's just flu (in an least vulnerable groups) should be enrolled into "national Covid service" and used for free as test guinea pigs for new vaccines, rounded up and kept quarantined.

Then they'll see if it's "just flu".
 
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