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Ban-jani said:
@karen7

Can you confirm if this sounds like it?

My sister is convinced my mum had this in December.

Thought it was a bad chest infection, sweating loads, bed bound, sore throat. Sneezed a little bit not a key symptom of what she had.

Doctor thought it was a chest infection as she was coughing so much but they couldn’t diagnose properly.

My mum’s young and healthy. She’s only 21 years older than me so under 50 and I’ve just been skiing with her.

At the time she said she had a bad chest infection to us lot but we’re now questioning it.

My step dad slept in another room due to how bad it was and the doctor was actually called out as he was worried.
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i wouldn't like to guess lovely,i can only go on my own experience,the key symptoms are cough,high temp and trouble breathing but everyone will feel it slightly differently
 
Uffa said:
Yep, the guy in this interview said he'd heard about some of his colleagues who work full-time on covid who are refusing to get tested while asymptomatic.
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Beyond my own experience, my great uncle who was a GP who also went on several aid tours in Africa and Asia before retiring, tells several stories about how he and colleagues would often avoid testing during especially bad localised outbreaks whilst asymptomatic, because they were some of the few staff in the zones that could treat the infected. He wasn’t proud of it, but he just pointed to there being no viable alternative due to limited staffing and resources.
 
Tricky_Trev said:
Boris says the scientific advice has been that closing schools would have had little effect on slowing the spread. Then next sentence says we feel the time is right to apply downward pressure on the curve so we’re closing schools. But I thought it has little effect? This is nothing other than reactionary. Reacting to the useless plan they had to begin with and trying to make a u-turn on our scientific advice appear like all part of the plan.
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He can’t remember what he said half an hour earlier
 
SebastianBlue said:
Beyond my own experience, my great uncle who was a GP who also went on several aid tours in Africa and Asia before retiring, tells several stories about how he and colleagues would often avoid testing during especially bad localised outbreaks whilst asymptomatic, because they were some of the few staff in the zones that could treat the infected. He wasn’t proud of it, but he just pointed to there being no viable alternative due to limited staffing and resources.
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From my own experience mate,stay at home
 
My wife is a teacher in a deprived area, so she will need to go in, half the kids get their main meal there.

What happens then to teachers who have kids?

What is the point of me putting my family on a self-imposed lockdown, when the wife is still coming in every night from a school.

These measures are half-baked.

The biggest employer in this country is the NHS.

Coupled with so many deprived kids in schools, plenty will still be open in this country.
 
tolmie's hairdoo said:
My wife is a teacher in a deprived area, so she will need to go in, half the kids get their main meal there.

What happens then to teachers who have kids?

What is the point of me putting my family on a self-imposed lockdown, when the wife is still coming in every night from a school.

These measures are half-baked.

The biggest employer in this country is the NHS.

Coupled with so many deprived kids in schools, plenty will still be open in this country.
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All schools to shut from Friday bud.
 
Rammy Blue said:
Watching this and can’t help but feel our guys have been pressured to follow this line of thinking.

They are now all saying what we’ve been saying for weeks on here, it’s like not only are we 2 weeks behind Italy in cases and deaths but also our official knowledge is that far behind too.

Fucking disturbing.
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Our plan was against the WHO and other countries,we wasted our time advantage,now it is full on panic and they don't seem to be be control
 
aguero93:20 said:
From my own experience mate,stay at home
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Sorry, I was referring to my experience of health workers avoiding testing and organisations managing the testing avoiding testing asymptomatic health workers to prevent them from being removed from the pool providing care to infected people based on limited staffing and resources.

But, to your point, I am in almost exclusive isolation as contracting the virus for me has a high risk of severe complications and death, unfortunately. I know there are many others on BM that are in similar positions.
 
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