COVID-19 — Coronavirus

[Deleted member 77198]

I have a question, I tested positive the wife was negative. If she test positive in the future would I have to isolate for 14 days because I live in the same house.

I would say, yes. Because even if you are now immune (not to say that’s true yet), you can still carry the virus on your skin, in your nostrils, even on your clothes, to be transmitted to other people.

 

[Bazzmand Show]

Nice one, where’ve you heard that?

Long range forecast suggesting from Saturday this week we are going to be in the mid twenties for at least 2 weeks.

 

[SWP's back]

Is Qatar experiencing problems with infection of migrant workers?

Yeah I think so, numbers of new cases daily are very high. But not because of people walking their dog or running. It’s because of shit like this

 

[Deleted member 77198]

The law will not protect us.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/13/poli...rt-strikes-down-stay-at-home-order/index.html

As many mistakes as our scientists, doctors and government has made throughout all this; at least we don’t live in America.

Edit- sorry, mate I didn’t read who posted that until after I’d posted my reply. I’m sorry you have to live in that country!

 

[SWP's back]

Surely not walking your dog in that heat? my dogs won't go out in high temps (hurts their paws) and as for running in high temps it sounds a bit suicidal.
Not yet legal here in Spain but most people here certainly wear a mask though when out of their houses.

Four times a day but we only walk him on shaded grass and only for about five minutes at a time to do his business.

He gets his exercise swimming May-Aug as there’s cooled dog hydrotherapy pool we take him to.

 

[SWP's back]

Looks like we're going to have a 4 week heat wave, maybe 8 weeks. Good news for putting the current Coronavirus epidemic wave to bed.

Ha. I take it this is sarcastic?

 

[Deleted member 77198]

Yeah I think so, numbers of new cases daily are very high. But not because of people walking their dog or running. It’s because of shit like this

That’s what every corner and free kick will be like when the Prem starts up again in three weeks.

Fucking ridiculous - both your picture (can’t believe people would be so daft!); and the Prem starting up (can’t believe people would be so daft!)

 

[purplenose]

Ha. I take it this is sarcastic?

If we have an 8 week heatwave in this cold windy pissing down fucking place I will show my painfully white arse on a bridge over the M6.

 

[Cityfan]

Are we reckoning that the Germany study of the carnival town of Gangelt and the American study of who had had it in New York State were utterly unreliable? But hurrah, the Brits have got it right.

Roche are actually a Swiss company, but it's a bit more complex than that.
This is commercially available for more extensive testing I don't know what the other studies were using, the UK itself has some very accurate testing ability but not so far the ability to do it on a widespread basis.
The mathematics of testing are such that you can use a slightly inaccurate test to give a reasonable population estimate if you know the accuracy but not a reasonable individual result.

 

[johnnytapia]

My research that kids can catch it but don't spread it to adults much is now confirmed by SAGE. Teachers are more ar risk from teachers.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/05/13/teachers-risk-catching-coronavirus-teachers-pupils/

You need to read that article (and the other evidence) more closely. Much more closely.Or,why don't you just now wander around and ask any kid to cough in your face or wipe their hands across your mouth. You'll be fine. "Your research" tells you so.

 

[Marvin]

Yeah I think so, numbers of new cases daily are very high. But not because of people walking their dog or running. It’s because of shit like this

Wow!

 

[Vic]

Roche are actually a Swiss company, but it's a bit more complex than that.
This is commercially available for more extensive testing I don't know what the other studies were using, the UK itself has some very accurate testing ability but not so far the ability to do it on a widespread basis.
The mathematics of testing are such that you can use a slightly inaccurate test to give a reasonable population estimate if you know the accuracy but not a reasonable individual result.

I had a bit of a spat many weeks ago with people arguing against a bit of random testing. It derived from a dodgy thing from Oxford uni that half the population may have had it. I think I assumed it was about antibodies rather than antigens but the idea that we couldn't test anybody for anything always seemed just as dodgy.

It couldn't be that difficult, could it? Test ten random people at a tube station, test ten MPs, test ten blood donors (they're just asking the usual "do you feel well"), ten air crew, ten people in a town with few confirmed cases, ten in Brum, ten in Manchester, ten in Liverpool, ten in Ambridge (high risk as the pub is still open) - all obviously just sample jobs and places - and you'd have some clue as to prevalence.

 

[BlueAnorak]

Ha. I take it this is sarcastic?

A little yes.

 

[Cityfan]

I had a bit of a spat many weeks ago with people arguing against a bit of random testing. It derived from a dodgy thing from Oxford uni that half the population may have had it. I think I assumed it was about antibodies rather than antigens but the idea that we couldn't test anybody for anything always seemed just as dodgy.

We have been doing some random sampling and although I haven't seen the results published, in one of the briefings the indication was that it was around 4% of the population had antibodies.
It is difficult to do when we are in a steep up phase of infection because there is a lag between infection and production of antibodies.

 

[somapop]

Anyone heard of the Hector Drummond Magazine?
Seems this pandemic is fertile ground for critics of the governments (and indeed conspiracy theorists).

https://hectordrummond.com/2020/05/09/alistair-haimes-the-virus-that-turned-up-late/

 

[Vic]

Anyone heard of the Hector Drummond Magazine?
Seems this pandemic is fertile ground for critics of the governments (and indeed conspiracy theorists).

https://hectordrummond.com/2020/05/09/alistair-haimes-the-virus-that-turned-up-late/

Sounds like good reason we've never heard of it. Trying to make a point about Sweden without pointing out they have an awful deaths per capita figure, and comparing the death toll from Covid to the toll of the 1918 flu - where no-one locked down.

 

[somapop]

Well that’s the elephant in the room for a lot of these opinion pieces.

 

[Vic]

Yeah I think so, numbers of new cases daily are very high. But not because of people walking their dog or running. It’s because of shit like this

I don't think protection of migrant workers has ever featured high on Qatar's to-do list.

 

[robbieh]

So in Spain 10 days on from allowing adults to go out and take exercise for an hour the numbers are creeping up after continuously dropping.

It might just be one day but need to keep an eye on it. Especially as the lockdown was eased again on Monday.

It might also explain why the UK seems to be stuck at a higher plateau as the lockdown allowed people to go out and exercise from the start.

 

[SWP's back]

I don't think protection of migrant workers has ever featured high on Qatar's to-do list.

Well they’re making them wear masks which is more than most countries. Doesn’t stop the migrant workers being fucking idiots and stand 2mm apart.