COVID-19 — Coronavirus

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TCIB said:
My local Sainsbury's has seemingly had no deliveries or something, all that is there is stuff like the no meat sausages that look suspiciously like they came out the rear of my dog or other stuff nobody ever buys. Tinned anything? all gone, Fresh anything? no chance!, oh wait their was one lonely 2 pint carton of goats milk.

The one saving grace was the whisky and wine shelves were ok-ish so im good for 12yo single malt and shiraz at least.
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Off to bed. Got to get up for the old codgers hour at Sainsbury's...
 
Ban-jani said:
I was 16 when Swine Flu hit and my brother had it and was relatively okay. I was like most self centred lads at 16, only interested in football and girls. I wasn’t into politics or current affairs at all.

With that in mind, can someone who was mature at the time of Swine Flu or SARS tell me if the panic was anywhere near as bad?

I know we didn’t impose serious measures so it’s obviously not but what was the worry like and did it all just go away quickly?
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Nobody gave a shit about those, it was considered a mild inconvenience by most people (no disrespect intended to anyone who lost loved ones over it)

Coronavirus seems to be treated the same way by about 40% of people still.

Plenty of people still saying “it’s only the flu”, I don’t think that’s going to age very well.

But seems like the penny is dropping with about 60% who are treating it with the seriousness it deserves. I’d say there was maybe 5% who thought of Swine Flu as serious as this.
 
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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Teachers will be classified as "key workers" so their children will still go to school. Schools, every single one of them, will have to provide access for pupils with an EHCP. That means virtually every single school in the country.
I am very happy indeed to come in next week and teach the children of NHS staff, binmen, postal workers, delivery drivers, whoever we need to take this fight right on, I'll be there. As will most of our staff. I teach in an inner-city school, and our staff are very worried, but nobody, and I mean nobody has flinched. We had staff with long-term asthma in today, they weren't permitted to be with classes, but they did their bit, getting home-school packs ready for the shutdown. We had staff teaching mixed classes so kids weren't sent home; we'll be driving to houses next week checking on some of our most vulnerable kids and families; making sure they don't go without; signposting them to whoever and whatever can help. There will be some scrotes who take the piss; fuck them, they'll be collateral in our victory. We will beat this.
 
George Hannah said:
I thought we had in the containment phase.
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The UK started doing this and did more tests than most European countries. We have done 56k tests. South Korea has done around 300k. Testing can be effective but I think the forensic side must be very resource intensive and from what the press have said they are concentrating on getting priority testing for NHS staff.
 
johnnytapia said:
Teachers will be classified as "key workers" so their children will still go to school. Schools, every single one of them, will have to provide access for pupils with an EHCP. That means virtually every single school in the country.
I am very happy indeed to come in next week and teach the children of NHS staff, binmen, postal workers, delivery drivers, whoever we need to take this fight right on, I'll be there. As will most of our staff. I teach in an inner-city school, and our staff are very worried, but nobody, and I mean nobody has flinched. We had staff with long-term asthma in today, they weren't permitted to be with classes, but they did their bit, getting home-school packs ready for the shutdown. We had staff teaching mixed classes so kids weren't sent home; we'll be driving to houses next week checking on some of our most vulnerable kids and families; making sure they don't go without; signposting them to whoever and whatever can help. There will be some scrotes who take the piss; fuck them, they'll be collateral in our victory. We will beat this.
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That’s great to hear. You see the very best and worst in people at times like these.
 
Cheesy said:
A truly frightening thing has just occurred to me.

They're closing the schools on Friday. If you think we've got a national shortage of loo rolls now just wait to see how bad the situation gets when there's 3 million teenage boys at home for a few weeks with nothing to do
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They're going to end up like ban-jani's cats.
 
Gelsons Dad said:
mate. We are at the beginning of this. Now is the time for cool heads and thoughtfulness. This is not going to be over any time soon and if you allow yourself to get wound up this early it won't be the virus that gets you it will be your nerves. Take a breath, stop for a moment and consider, as we all should "is what I'm doing/saying useful". If it isn't then don't.
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your right matey,,given cheesy a big kiss,he still loves me
 
meltonblue said:
I think people are forgetting a lot of the groundwork can be skipped nowadays in terms of trials. It’s the mass production (and let’s get honest, the money) that’s the issue.
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The amount governments are pumping in to prop up their economies is in the hundreds of billions, I don’t think the cost of finding a vaccine is a hurdle. But time is.
 
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