COVID-19 — Coronavirus

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DazWA9 said:
Yep. They've also added:

If I personally go off showing symptoms then I'll be paid company sick pay.
If I go off because of a family member in the house is showing symptoms then no company sick pay.

To say I'm fuming is an understatement.
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You know the answer to that then, keep going to work and give it to every **** in the building
 
Psychedelic Casual said:
Vitamin D, Vitamin C, Zinc, Calcium and Potassium rich foods mate.

Gargle some salt water. Boil the water first, wait for it to cool a little, put sone salt (sea salt or pink salt) in and gargle.

Boil some water and put salt, ginger and lemon in it and inhale the steam for a few minutes.
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Echinacea too if you have it. Its a natural anti viral.
 
goalmole said:
The ratio between the reported number and the estimated infection number in your example is 100 - 200 times.
That being correct (and I don't disagree with it) the corresponding numbers as of yesterday would be 5683 reported infections and the estimated infection number would be 568,300 - 1,136,600.
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Sorry mate, no.

When there were 500 confirmed cases, they said in reality there may be 5,000 to 10,000. That is 10x to 20x as many. Not 100x to 200x.

There are circa 5,000 confirmed cases today. 10x that is 50,000. 20x is 100,000.
 
BosnianBlue said:
They've updated, I posted just after public announce by spanish authorities. It's 410 now there, though some sources have it at around 460. I guess the main problem with different numbers at different sources are due to different day reset times. Spain is bit tricky too, they have this big morning update, but some cases are being updated later in a day too.
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I may be wrong but for the last couple of weeks I’ve thought the weekend figures might be less than comprehensive. Perhaps they’re a bit slower in updating them?
 
You have to be careful looking at the stats for countries on Worldomters.
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/
They should use a different colour for partial case reports. It looked like Spain had a decrease in cases an hour ago, but they were only partial results. The full figutes (now up) make it look like Spain is going to be far worse than Italy.
 
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On the eye thing, what is it what people are experiencing? Mine have been watering a fair bit and the headaches are still there but not as bad as a few days ago. No other symptoms as of yet and I’ve been in lockdown for 9 days now with no other person apart from my girlfriend (who’s showing no symptoms at all) anywhere near me.
 
Pablo1 said:
On the eye thing, what is it what people are experiencing? Mine have been watering a fair bit and the headaches are still there but not as bad as a few days ago. No other symptoms as of yet and I’ve been in lockdown for 9 days now with no other person apart from my girlfriend (who’s showing no symptoms at all) anywhere near me.
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FWIW I've had headaches (unusual for me) and sore eyes as well, but this has been going on for about a month now. So I can only conclude it is not COVID-19 or else I would have either got sick, or recovered by now. I am no doctor, but I would imagine cough and temperature are the two big indicators. Particularly temperature. When your body is fighting an infection, you usually get a raised temperature.
 
Chippy_boy said:
FWIW I've had headaches (unusual for me) and sore eyes as well, but this has been going on for about a month now. So I can only conclude it is not COVID-19 or else I would have either got sick, or recovered by now. I am no doctor, but I would imagine cough and temperature are the two big indicators. Particularly temperature. When your body is fighting an infection, you usually get a raised temperature.
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Yeah I’m thinking similar. No cough or temperature and feel great other than the headaches and weepy eyes.
 
Next door neighbours in late 70s and the fella is a cancer survivor recently, has just been stood outside with 6 scaffolders, next minute these fellas are fitting scaffolding front and back, they’ve been all over front garden and in my back garden, wouldn’t be arsed normally but I’m fucking hiding away and I’ve got six blokes working. I’ve just asked him what’s he thinking and he’s said he’s starting two months building work on a new dormer and a roof. So builders all over the place for two months.
Reading advice if your a business that is not on list ie a necessary need, you should close.
 
DazWA9 said:
Yep. They've also added: :

If I personally go off showing symptoms then I'll be paid company sick pay.
If I go off because of a family member in the house is showing symptoms then no company sick pay.

To say I'm fuming is an understatement.
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I think your employers are trying it on. The gov.uk website says this

https://www.gov.uk/statutory-sick-pay

Changes to Statutory Sick Pay for coronavirus (COVID-19) self-isolation

Emergency legislation is being brought forward. You’ll be able to get SSP from the first day you’re self-isolating and cannot work. This will begin from 13 March.

The official info doesn't seem to distinguish between self-isolation for personal symptoms or self-isolation because a family member has to self-isolate. Thats how I read it anyway.

https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19/
 
Chippy_boy said:
FWIW I've had headaches (unusual for me) and sore eyes as well, but this has been going on for about a month now. So I can only conclude it is not COVID-19 or else I would have either got sick, or recovered by now. I am no doctor, but I would imagine cough and temperature are the two big indicators. Particularly temperature. When your body is fighting an infection, you usually get a raised temperature.
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I've had a cough for about 2 weeks, now no taste for 3 days. No temperature or other signs. Just put it down to being back end of a cold. Not so sure now.
 
i8rags said:
Next door neighbours in late 70s and the fella is a cancer survivor recently, has just been stood outside with 6 scaffolders, next minute these fellas are fitting scaffolding front and back, they’ve been all over front garden and in my back garden, wouldn’t be arsed normally but I’m fucking hiding away and I’ve got six blokes working. I’ve just asked him what’s he thinking and he’s said he’s starting two months building work on a new dormer and a roof. So builders all over the place for two months.
Reading advice if your a business that is not on list ie a necessary need, you should close.
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My honest opinion is that unless his house is falling down he's out of order, if you're isolated and you want to distance yourself whilst this virus abates then it's going to be pretty hard to do it with a building site next to you.
We have a very large communal garden (Shared by two properties) and we have asked our other owners of it if they could walk their Dogs away from the windows of our property, they obliged and we will of course do the same.
 
tolmie's hairdoo said:
thanks mate - we also have two little kids, so we have to be realistic in terms of self isolating. We can all sleep apart and work apart - otherwise - a safe distance in the evening for TV or fresh air in garden.
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I trust you were up and at it for the Joe Wickes live P.E event on YouTube this morning, going to do it every day kids are out of school, 30 mins in total, I was bollocked after 25mìns god knows what an adults workout is like :-)
 
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