Coronavirus (2021) thread

[PannickAtTheDisco]

That’s interesting. As mentioned above, the doc did say if I were to walk down the flats stairs it would probably kill me atm (I tried a short balcony up/down walk and I’ve felt better after a half marathon...completely exhausted).
I’m just going to take it real easy now, rest, take lots of fluids & hopefully start eating properly too

take it easy, give yourself the best chance of recovery. A few weeks/months more may seem like a pain now but it's years of your life ahead, so just rest up and very gently try and build yourself up doing very little things. Your body's already fighting this bugger so doesn't need to be stressing with bundles of activity.

 

[Healdplace]

GM Scoreboard:

1169 - down 190 from 1359. 29.1% of the 655 NW fall to take the North West Total to 4011. Same % as yesterday

3 wks v 2 wks v last wk v Today:- 1404 v 1152 v 1833 v 1169. Looking hopeful.


Pop Score is cases across whole pandemic v 100,000 people - rises daily but lower the better.

Weekly Pop is same measure across last 7 days only. Can rise or fall depending on if more cases or less occur today v the same day last week.


Either way Up is bad, down is good.



Manchester 263 – down from 305. Total 42, 491. Weekly 2444. Pop score up 48 to 7686. Weekly Pop down 22 to 442. Coming down a bit faster now.

Bolton 124 - down from 144. Total cases 20, 073. Weekly 1096. Pop score up 43 to 6981. Weekly Pop down 10 to 382.

Wigan 119 - down from 187. Total cases 23, 203. Weekly 1286. Pop score up 36 to 7060. Weekly Pop down 36 to 391.

Stockport 113 – down from 123. Total cases 15, 968. Weekly 1222. Pop score up 39 to 5442. Weekly Pop down 28 to 417. Another good week to week fall.

Rochdale 110 - down from 119. Total cases 17, 094. Weekly 783. Pop score up 50 to 7686. Weekly Pop down 1 to 356.

Trafford 101 - up from 80. One of only two rises today in GM. Total cases 13, 235. Weekly 850. Pop score up 42 to 5576. Trafford lose 3 on Stockport in the overall Pop Score lead back to 134. Weekly Pop down 32 to 358

Salford 97 - down from 129. First sub 100 in two weeks here. Total cases 18, 268. Weekly 987. Pop score up 38 to 7058. Weekly Pop down 24 to 381.

Bury 89 - up from 73. Total cases 13, 880. Weekly 726. Pop score up 46 to 7267. Weekly Pop down 17 to 380.

Tameside 85 – down from 104 . Total cases 14, 068. Weekly 812. Pop score up 37 to 6211. Weekly Pop down 26 to 358.

Oldham 68 - down from 95. Four successive sub 100 scores. Total cases 18, 931. Weekly 684. Lowest weekly total in some weeks in GM. Pop score up 29 to 7984. Lowest rise in GM today. Weekly Pop down 20 to 298.


Only Manchester and Stockport now over 400 and seven other boroughs in the 300s shows GM heading in right direction and with Oldham now sub 300 and with other lowest records in GM right now a total contrast to where we were after the first wave last summer with Stockport and Manchester low and Oldham sky high. Hard not to imagine this does not have something to do with levels of infectivity being protective now if previously high and less protective now if previously low,

 

[Gaylord du Bois]

@somapop

 

[somapop]

Some clown on my Facebook timeline thought he was being clever last week when he posted “the government tell us that 1 in 50 have the virus at the moment so let’s do a straw poll of my 200 friends to see if it’s true” or something, only to be hit with a number of “I have” or “my wife has” etc. He looked a right dick.

This microscopic virus has exposed so many frailties in society including the outing of the village idiots.

Rest. Rest. Rest and more rest.
Look up some breathing exercises to help with restoring your levels.
Apparently, these really helped some of the stricken on the Diamond Princess. Recommended by Asian crew members, I seem to recall.

It’s weird as the main reason I struggle to inhale deeply is the irritation it causes my chest when I do so. Sets off a coughing fit then ultimately a retching session over the toilet. Paracetamol intake has been beneficial. Picked up some of that linctus @tolmie's hairdoo mentioned.
I should do some gentle ones however. I’ll look them up.

btw....when I say back to work, it’s a remote based job...

 

[Cheesy]

Watching Outbreak on ITV.

As if we didn't know already, China has an awful lot to answer for.

And anybody who believes the number of deaths over there is around the 4000 figure that they say must be fucking nuts. It's probably more like 100 times that.

 

[Healdplace]

It’s astonishing how it appears to have jumped from ‘I don’t know anyone who has had it’ to stream of us succumbing to it.

That's the impact of the new highly infectious strain and doing over 10 times as many tests per day as in the first wave.

Both are factors as this one clearly infects at least two or three more people than last time - helped by it then being early Spring - longer, warmer days and nights and more people outside where it spreads less easily - and only testing those on their way to hospital as we had virtually no capacity to do otherwise then.

But now with us all being inside as it is Winter and mixing with others much more than we did that is a huge part of why a seasonal virus like this is far more apparent in Winter. Even without a faster spreading variant.

There were plenty of people in April saying they had it but not many got tested to know if they did. And most got over it after a week or two without ever needing to know. Just as they do now but these people will know if they do or not thanks to doing 3 or 4 million tests a week.

It is now far more widespread in reality than then and everyone with a suspicion just quickly knows for sure.

 

[Marvin]

Look at the actual numbers.....View attachment 8570

....falling, though I guess like other data the last 2 are weekend data.

Yes. This discussion started when I said IF

Do you realise that if we vaccinate at 500k per day then in four weeks time around 50% of the population would have been vaccinated or have had the infection.

Assumptions: 25% have had it, 7% have been vaccinated.

I think it will pick up when we get through the most elderly groups. Must take a lot of time and resources sending people out to care homes etc.

I don't think there's much recognition that in Dec, and Jan we have had around 1 in 10 people with Covid-19. A lot of people have been infected in a short period of time, and added to that vaccinations are continuing apace. So whilst many blues are struggling at the moment, we are moving quickly through this epidemic.

 

[crublue1]

My Cousin has got it and really struggling and In hospital and a bloke at work who had it recently just had a heart attack brought on by Covid. Still everywhere clearly.

Awful. Hope they both make a speedy recovery.

 

[worsleyweb]

Awful. Hope they both make a speedy recovery.

thanks mate. i honestly know at least 100 people who have or currently have it and it has got much worse since about November. i am starting to think i must have had it in March ans been asymptotic as i litrrally have been in contact with tens of people with it over the past year.

 

[Gaylord du Bois]

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I hope that clears things up.