COVID-19 — Coronavirus

[Groke]

Right, off to work now - company has switched to face mask production for NHS. I've volunteered to work Easter doing mind numbing task of assembling them. Rather be sat in the sunshine in my garden drinking beer, it has to be said!!!

 

[George Hannah]

New York now has more cases than any country.

 

[beast]

PS Mark Curnow E Section FSG (@Forrest4556) Tweeted: We made an arrest for breach of bail of a high risk DA offender and issued three COVID fixed penalty notices this morning, following a vehicle failing to stop for our traffic colleagues in St Austell. Apparently the occupants had travelled over 150 miles to see ‘friends’?! ‍

 

[robbieh]

One of the interesting aspects of this epidemic is the connection between gender and infection. Men are much more likely to be infected and also have a worse prognosis once infected. Generally women incur lower levels of bacterial and viral infections, and yet suffer from a higher incidence of autoimmune diseases. There are at least two factors: hormones and the X chromosome of which women have two, one from each parent. Normally one of the X chromosomes is deactivated but in 10% of women this is thought not to occur and this can have both positive and negative consequences.

You seem to be suggesting that women have a more active immune system. One of the things they have said is that your immune system can be the thing that kills you with this. Also read yesterday that people undergoing chemotherapy not necessarily more at risk.
Maybe it's not the strength of the immune system. Maybe it's the flexibility to deal with complex scenarios that counts.
Not discounting what you posted as it would explain why older folk are more at risk.

 

[George Hannah]

Translated from the Italian.


LONDON - "He is in excellent hands." Downing Street reassures the country: Boris Johnson is receiving the best treatment. The health system is a machine that "works very well", says the prime minister's spokesman, but it is an irony that nobody escapes that the man who wanted Brexit at any cost is now in the hands of an international team, with nurses and doctors from all over the world.

5.5% of UK health workers come from the EU, while 13% call themselves foreigners. St Thomas’s hospital, founded by Florence Nightingale, is no different. Among the luminaries who are dealing with the prime minister, there is (at least) one Italian, according to the Times: Luigi Camporota, considered one of the top experts in intensive care medicine and especially breathing difficulties.

Momentum scouring the world in search of worthless propaganda & @Vic ensuring that anybody reading this thread does not escape noticing their truly pathetic efforts. Brain dead.

 

[Coatigan]

We’re in a sort of period of part-inactivity. It’s nowhere near a lockdown.

And i personally hope that is as far as we will go.

And for the record i do take it seriously and respect the restrictions, more than is asked.

 

[Coatigan]

Is it possible that the UK no longer has the police force capable of enforcing a total lockdown?

Is it possible there are other, more sensible and genuine reasons they dont want to impose stricter measures and enforcements?

And no i dont mean this obsessive 'fooling people into herd immunity' conspiracy that people have got themselves all tangled up in.

 

[bert38]

Not a massive police fan but I dont know how coppers dont react when little twats spit at them etc giving it ten nil

Staff are getting spat at and coughed at. It’s horrible but in custody it usually means we have to get hands on. You cannot react as much as sometimes you may want to. Doesn’t stop it being stressful.

 

[kippax4ever]

So you don't like the police. I work in custody. Please tell me how we are supposed to practise social distancing when you must search detainees, often strip search them, must fingerprint them and sometimes restrain very violent people? All from 2 metres away? Custody has no windows, no fresh air and no ability of working from home. Yet we are normal people under that uniform; people with families, vulnerable elderly relatives-nobody wants to catch the virus or pass it on, but some of us don't have the privilege to sit at home and criticise those that put themselves in harms way.

You no the score,
Put his windows in & torch the house..

 

[kippax4ever]

Staff are getting spat at and coughed at. It’s horrible but in custody it usually means we have to get hands on. You cannot react as much as sometimes you may want to. Doesn’t stop it being stressful.

Taser the cu.ts