COVID-19 — Coronavirus

[DRINKLEVEDRY]

Exa

My folks are due to fly to Ibiza via barcelona today and their flights are still on.

Exactly mate and everything is in lockdown it's crazy.

 

[asgoodasitgets]

Scary posts on here, Everybody is nervous, anxious, scared including myself. I'm so worried for my family and the not knowing part is difficult. Some things I've seen in recent days people acting 'normal' is ridiculous! I went to Tesco to get some essentials on my own obviously left the kids at home with the missus, Was standing in the que and I kept my distance from a man on from of me, But behind me there was a man standing so close to me you could nearly feel his breath, I turned to him and said 'Don't even attempt to take another step closer to me or I'll f*cking plant you'. He just stared at me.

Everybody just stay safe as possible, keep your distance and hygiene as good as you can.

Stay Safe folks!

Instead of just asking him to take a step back ?

 

[SWP's back]

Where's half come from? Until we know the age distribution of hospital admissions you can't put a number on it.

Just a fingers crossed then eh.

Half was being optimistic.

 

[George Hannah]

Well that’s that then, let’s all trust Katrina over everyone else.

That's the reasonable thing to do.

 

[SWPISHOME]

Instead of just asking him to take a step back ?

Yeah instead of taking a step back, This isn't some sort of joke of what's happening, What's happening now is real. How idiotic can you be basically standing right next to somebody. If he wasnt so dumb I wouldn't of had to tell him off.

 

[willipp]

Exa

Exactly mate and everything is in lockdown it's crazy.

They live there otherwise they wouldnt be going anywhere near those flights. Being the age bracket they are in, i'm extremely worried about them and getting back to their home their, isolating and keeping as safe as possible is key. Just wish there were direct flights this time of year.

 

[MCFC1993]

Bit of a sobering phone call with my Nan just then, she's 80 in June and usually really stubborn but was a lot more compliant than usual when I was asking her to ask us (rest of the family) if she needs things doing; shopping etc...

Still can't stop her taking her dog for a walk in the park but just told her not to go within half a mile of someone, well to that extent anyway.

Baby steps but she'll be on lockdown eventually.



These next few weeks are going to be terrible.

 

[domalino]

Just a fingers crossed then eh.

Half was being optimistic.

It might be, but it might not be. The stats are massively, massively skewed by the over 70's. It would not be surprising at all if they represented over 75% of the severe cases requiring extensive hospital treatment.

The effect of removing them from the equation by quarantining them will be massive, but I admit we won't know how big until we see some demographic data.

 

[DRINKLEVEDRY]

They live there otherwise they wouldnt be going anywhere near those flights. Being the age bracket they are in, i'm extremely worried about them and getting back to their home their, isolating and keeping as safe as possible is key. Just wish there were direct flights this time of year.

The climate is better for them apparently I have copd and feel safer her but my Mrs can't wait to get home.

 

[Tricky_Trev]

We might not see that number of cases, but we would see the resulting deaths. At a 1% mortality rate, we should see 6,400 deaths by the end of the month if those figures turn out to be correct.

If we currently have 20,000 cases in the UK, that means the current mortality rate is just 0.175%. That seems way too low, suggesting that we don't actually have that many cases.

Does everyone struggling get tested now? Or will there be deaths not linked to coronavirus that actually are? Not sure what the testing policy is now.