COVID-19 — Coronavirus

[M18CTID]

The problem with this theory is that no one in Tenerife died. For it to have been circulating around the world without people getting seriously ill doesn't make sense.

How do we know that there weren't deaths already but no-one was aware of Covid-19 back then? Remember that the first mention was December 31st but the first known case has now been confirmed as November 17th and the poster you quote was on holiday over Christmas, so maybe some of the earlier ones were attributed to seasonal flu? I'm not specifically speaking about Tenerife as such - more the whole planet

 

[Saddleworth2]

This is why people are talking about 70+

@Fred_Quimby this is what I was referring to.

 

[domalino]

It's not really a theory it just makes you think, none of us know or will know. I'm sure people did die in Tenerife but as the virus wasn't that well known it would have just been attributed to pneumonia or such if elderly, as it effects those the most

It's got very different symptoms though, and they'd have traced it back. There would be lots of people getting infected with a history of being in Tenerife a few weeks earlier.

Take a read of this and see just how insanely accurate government tracing of infections is. They know everything about all of those people and the people they came into contact with.

 

[cibaman]

mate we were in Tenerife new year I had a horrendous cough as did my family took 6 weeks to shift but it’s peak I could not sleep as coughing so violently

looking around Tenerife loads were coughing.

You don’t think it could be that we’re all more aware of people coughing at the moment?

 

[mayo31]

Mate I think your posts on herd immunity are well intentioned and you clearly understand the logic behind the theory.

But the Health Secretary Matt Hancock said yesterday that herd immunity was not the official government strategy.

The WHO and wider scientific community were alarmed at the noises that it was an official position.

Until someone from the UK government dies, I don’t think it’s helpful to be spreading it (pun intended).

I’d encourage you to read this article from Matt Hanage who researches and teaches the evolution and epidemiology of infectious disease at Harvard’s Chan School of Public Health.

He’s more qualified than any of us to pass comment. His initial reaction when he heard the UK government’s position was herd immunity is that he thought it was satire.

https://www.theguardian.com/comment...st-britain-herd-immunity-coronavirus-covid-19

Altered to be better

 

[SilverFox2]

Pretty much did do.

Told her I had a job to do as a father and she had a job to do as a headteacher and we would agree to disagree.

She seemed more arsed about keeping up the school attendance record then some deadly virus knocking about.

Certainly preparing for the worst outcome usually prevents it happening.

Even though our region in Spain is largely unaffected we have been forced to abide by a lockdown order for the whole country.
Prevention is better than cure and frankly everyone seems to accept that extreme measures are needed.

 

[squirtyflower]

Pretty much did do.

Told her I had a job to do as a father and she had a job to do as a headteacher and we would agree to disagree.

She seemed more arsed about keeping up the school attendance record then some deadly virus knocking about.

The advice we have given schools is to code the absence as a ‘Y’, which doesn’t affect their attendance figures, and allows parents to do what they feel is right.

 

[Blue Hefner]

 

[SWP's back]

https://www.newsweek.com/china-traces-coronavirus-back-first-confirmed-patient-zero-1492327

Earliest confirmed case in the world was November 17.

He asked when the discovery was announced.

“On 31 December 2019, the World Health Organization (WHO) was informed of a cluster of cases of pneumonia of unknown cause detected in Wuhan City, Hubei Province, China. On 12 January 2020, it was announced that a novel coronavirus had been identified in samples obtained from cases and that initial analysis of virus genetic sequences suggested that this was the cause of the outbreak.”

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/covid-19-guidance-for-staff-in-the-transport-sector

Top pedantry though.

 

[paulchapo]

mate we were in Tenerife new year I had a horrendous cough as did my family took 6 weeks to shift but it’s peak I could not sleep as coughing so violently

looking around Tenerife loads were coughing.

It was a nightmare.