COVID-19 — Coronavirus

[SWP's back]

Which one’s your friend...

Middle.

 

[Vic]

Not sure where the rest of you are at, but I’m out of here for a while.
If your interested I’ll keep you updated on where we are in ireland but not convinced anyone cares.

I'd rather hear about that than some of the nonsense on here.

 

[Vic]

I asked if you ever post anything positive and that’s your response?

Here are some synonyms to assist your understanding:

• admiring,
• applauding,
• appreciative,
• approbatory,
• approving,
• commendatory,
• complimentary,
• favourable,
• friendly,
• good

Source: Merriam-Webster Thesaurus.

All good words for being able to take employers to court if they break the law.

 

[Vic]

How would that fit with ‘patient 1’ in northern Italy, you know, the marathon runner who was an amateur footballer who was in ICU for five weeks?

What's the issue? A young fit person can get it. An older person (or anyone) with "underlying conditions" is more likely to die from it from someone who has no underlying conditions.

The original question was about high blood pressure. A lot of people with high blood pressure don't know it and aren't on medication. They are more at risk than those who are taking the tablets.

 

[squirtyflower]

What's the issue? A young fit person can get it. An older person (or anyone) with "underlying conditions" is more likely to die from it from someone who has no underlying conditions.

The original question was about high blood pressure. A lot of people with high blood pressure don't know it and aren't on medication. They are more at risk than those who are taking the tablets.

Errr

If second hand will do, my nursing lecturer friend (who's going to back on wards or perhaps teaching how to intubate patients) thinks it's more to do with general fitness.

 

[AlgarveBlu]

Middle.

I will go and check in on her when I’m next in Shanghai and NO I won’t hear another word about it, we are all here to help each other in these testing times.

 

[kippax4ever]

Any idea what will run out in the shops in a few weeks? I bet it'll be something that we wont realise is critical till it's gone, e.g. condoms so loads of babies to be conceived or washing up liquid so we are all washing cups with just water and end up with the shits (lucky those who stocked up on bogrolls) or batteries so our remotes won't work on our TVs and we'll be forced to have conversations. Some things surely are not being made or shipped now and once stocks run out we'll all be in a panic.

People by Johnnie's for their fingers,seeing they can't but disposable gloves,

 

[Blue Maverick]

Joe Wicks - when he was all about "if you eat this food you will lose weight" and then adding "oh and excerscise 3 times a day" I thought --ooohhh kaaay - however what he is doing now in terms of being PE teacher for the kids is great. The good people are coming out

We do this everyday with my daughter even got the wife doing it, reports of earth tremors are widely reported last week.

 

[Segga]

I hope this resets the minds of everybody. It will do with me by the time it’s over.
I was getting in a bit of a rut with a lot of stuff and losing interest in a lot of things including watching city but it shows you how venerable we are and you never know what’s round the corner and I tell you what the thought of being able to have a walk to my local cafe on a sunny crisp Saturday morning for a full English followed by a few pints with me family & friends before going to watch the mighty blues will never be taken for granted again by me.

 

[kippax4ever]

I just filled up two of my remotes with new batteries; my last AAAs, and I can cannibalise them down the line too, if needs must (I’ve done it before, I’m basically a slovenly **** at times) - but thanks for the heads up. I’ll buy some spares when I’m next at the supermarket. That’s one thing you don’t want to run out of: juice.

Haven’t bought any washing-up liquid for ages: I used to eat out or Deliveroo, 13 nights a fortnight, and have a dishwasher - however, I took one of a number of communal bottles from work, as it was closing down the other day. If that runs out before this ends I think we’re fucked, as I basically put everything I possibly can through the dishwasher. It could break down, of course. That would be a fucking disaster btw! Worse than running out of beer!

Worse than running out of beer!
Surely you meant bogrolls

 

[kippax4ever]

The Ashes are off mate. :)

You no that's official or are you putting a spin on this..

 

[kevin horlocks wand]

Anyone used the priority hours at supermarkets yet, and if so how have they been?

Thinking of giving it a go tomorrow, not seen chicken in a while, but don't fancy dealing with it if its going to be heaving and full of queues.

my parents go. Apparently it’s full of old bids shopping for themselves and their kids!!!!

 

[ganganvince]

Self test kits available to purchase soon.

https://beanuman.typeform.com/to/gxsCP3?__s=59rbmqqkzmhrthrzu01d

 

[kevin horlocks wand]

Several as I know a few people there. The below is from an ex-girlfriend from long long ago who posted this on Thursday from Shanghai where she works as a teacher with her husband:

If you don’t know anyone over there, where are you expecting to hear it Dennis?

There are plenty of media sources reporting similar. Do you doubt they are that fastidious about their lock down? Do you think my friend is lying?

From our media it would seem China has returned back to normal. Even releasing statements that young people would understand like “Apple has reopened its shops in China “ . They are still on lockdown?!

I was hoping for relaxing some of the rules by May here but this is depressing.

 

[bluemoon32]

I, like a lot of people, miss the simple things in life at the moment.
Most weekend mornings i'd walk to my local coffee shop and sit outside, reading a paper or people watching and just relaxing after a hard week's work.
Now, they are all closed and our company are now working 7 days a week, after work is filled up with shopping or sorting out prescriptions for my elderly relatives and speaking to them through a fucking window.
My Grandmother ( whom i adored) has one remaining sibling left ,Betty is 93 and has been in good health all her life & is usually upbeat and full of fun.
When i go and knock on her window ( she doesn't do mobile phones) to deliver her stuff, she looks out the window with fear in her eyes until she realises it's me, she suddenly looks old to me & it spooks me a little, she's been a constant in my life forever.
I know everyone has similar stories but to those who are still not taking all this too seriously ( and there are many), sort your fucking heads out ffs.

 

[The Light Was Yellow Sir]

Johnson, Hancock, Whitty - have they all failed to follow their own guidelines or are those guidelines nonsense?

Or are suffering very mild symptoms following a vaccine shot........

 

[Vic]

Errr

I really don't know why you're trying to find inconsistency. The posts were about the risk to people with underlying conditions. You've introduced a separate issue that a young fit person with no other medical condition can still catch it.

Not many young marathon runners will die from it. Anyone with high blood pressure (treated or untreated) is much more at risk. My nurse friend says because I'm relatively fit (for my age) my risk factors are lower. I hope he's right but if you want to worry me that he might be wrong, I think I'll choose not to get more worried than I already am.

 

[feedmpenzaandhewillscore]

From our media it would seem China has returned back to normal. Even releasing statements that young people would understand like “Apple has reopened its shops in China “ . They are still on lockdown?!

I was hoping for relaxing some of the rules by May here but this is depressing.

China has a population of 1.4 billion people, I find it odd there figures are below Italy when you think of the shear amount of people living there. There must be millions upon millions that have not had it there yet I don’t believe just cutting off Wuhan has solved it.

 

[Marvin]

Some perspective for those people who are getting alarmed about the number of deaths.

I report below the number of deaths from 'flu in the UK in recent years. It's of the order of 20,000 a year.

The coronavirus epidemic will take very approximately 2 x cumulative deaths at the peak which is going to be significantly less than 20,000.

I am not sure exactly how the data is compiled but I just wanted to get an order of magnitude comparison. It's just information. You do what you want with it.

Source: Public Health England, surveillance of influenza and other respiratory viruses in the UK Winter 2018 and 2019.

 

[George Hannah]

CORONAVIRUS

Coronavirus: Lockdown ‘is on course to reduce total death rate’

Tom Whipple, Science Editor | Kat Lay, Health Correspondent

Saturday March 28 2020, 12.01am, The Times

Statisticians believe the lockdown is being successful in reducing the impact of the coronavirus

Britain is on course for an estimated 5,700 deaths from coronavirus, far lower than originally predicted, experts believe.
The country will avoid the 260,000 fatalities once feared if it keeps on the same path seen in China, statisticians at Imperial College London have calculated.

They emphasised that this did not imply that the fears of mass deaths were alarmist, but that the government strategy was working. “Our work shows that social distancing is working against Covid-19 as an effective parachute across multiple countries,” Tom Pike, of Imperial College, said. “That’s no reason for us to cut away our parachutes when we’re still way above the ground.”

This month Neil Ferguson, Professor Pike’s colleague at Imperial, presented a modelling analysis that suggested coronavirus would kill.....

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/...n-course-to-reduce-total-death-rate-3gn7hfjzk