COVID-19 — Coronavirus

[denislawsbackheel]

any financial bods on here?,,was wondering with the state of the economy and the risk of the pound becoming less valuable every day, if you say had 10k in cash would you be better buying a physical item such as a car to retain certain value

l’d buy an original Fender strat and lock it away.

 

[St.Pauli support]

I'd love to know how the German's are counting their deaths. Are they only counting those that died of the virus that didn't have any other health problems to put the death down to?

What I pick up through media,
we might generally not test post mortem to waste tests.
But critical cases are surely being tested arriving in hospital,
and I see no reason to not trust official figures.

The death counts will not be following strict standards throughout the world anyway, IMO.

There are also examples of counted deaths who were covid+
but didn't have any lung issue at all. Doesn't make much sense, but counts as a covid+ dead person.

Bottom line, we were testing very early in big numbers, we did contact tracing as long as it was possible,
(we still do but it's much more difficult now)
and critical case numbers are still not reaching our ICU capacity,
which will be upped to maybe 50,000 til weekend.
But many say the bottleneck maybe won't be hardware but staff, who are working on more intensity from day to day.

Cases numbers are still rising sharply and will continue to do so.
Shutdown will show if we can cope, otherwise our (good) system will collapse like elsewhere.

Test capacity will be further ramped up, also by using veterinary labs, which have similar test procedures.

But we are also running out of PPE, local doctors are often working unprotected and some had to close due to self isolation.

We are are walking through fog and hope to get through well.

 

[Tricky_Trev]

Depends if we arrest them or not.

This not a ****ing game. Peoples' lives are at stake FFS. Lots and lots of them.

I agree. The poster is right though. Too many in this country are not going to do a thing. I unfortunately have had to leave the house the last few days to search for essential baby products that did not arrive with my home delivery of shopping. I’m walking around and if someone coughs (into their hand 100% of the time, the stupid pricks) someone will then joke with them “don’t forget to wash your hands!” And the other goes “haha yeah must remember to do it!” and they laugh it off. The whole thing is a fucking joke to people. Then you have a former WHO director on TV saying London will be Wuhan in under 2 weeks. Several hundred dying every day because there’s no ventilator. This is coming. And the stupid cünts in this country think it’s hilarious and not worth listening to advice.

And what’s going to happen with secondary school kids whose parents are at work? Are they going to stay in or are they going to get together with their mates and doss about? We know the answer. So many in this country are not going to give a shit until someone they love is dying infront of them. Then they’ll realise what they should have done. Only it’s too late then.

 

[SebastianBlue]

No to be honest Seb I thought you were in the right, was just defending his right to challenge, ill leave it at that.

Fair enough, mate — I’ll defend his right, as well. :-)

 

[mexico1970]

Buying from a harley street clinic for about £400. Self swab then send back for analysis.

I should have put 'Snake oil salesmen from Harley Street' bud ;)

 

[AlgarveBlu]

This video from inside an Italian hospital might upset you but we need to see it.

There were signs that the number of new cases in Italy were stabilising but they increased today. Their measures are having some effect. We need more encouragement for the health workers.

Surely it must begin to moderate soon. If you look at China curve and the date when Wuhan went into lockdown, the number of new cases starts to fall after about ten days. That was one City though. In Italy we have different regions all at different stages in the epidemic.

People in the UK need to see this to prepare for what we will see here. We need to see Italy recover somewhat so that we know that when it hits here in its full force that the period of suffering will be brief.

Harrowing and heartbreaking, all frontline and back office medical staff are heroes and the health services everywhere must be better financed in the future! no ifs or buts this time!

 

[aguero93:20]

I'm new, lots have been here years... as a result of being new I just take posters as they are from their posts, not knowing anyone, gives me now an opportunity just to comment on how I find the 'thread' of this thread. My experience of this thread is like that of any other 'forum' threads, lots said by a strong vocal few and that certain posts are given to be more valued than others...no different than anywhere else. It's a difficult job to weed stuff out or say to someone things that may be difficult for them to take on board. It's part of online life. I only joined Bluemoon because of the UEFA stuff, that's another life time away, if it wasn't for people in this forum posting what they' have I wouldn't be half informed as I am. The feelings I get from posters in general are a mirror of what's going on out here...as in anything people will take a point of view, cause agreement or disagreement, there's few views I don't care for, but hey ho that's how it goes. All I will say there's no need for anyone to feel 'protective', the overall conversation is pretty solid, it has inputs from a wide range of people both from home and abroad...which to me commends this thread rather than distracts from it. Carry on with how it's going, if somebody doesn't care for it, then that's their view...they don't have to participate...I'll shurrup.

Haha good to hear from you mate, I'll back the point about using paragraphs though!

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

Where have a belittled this or other posters?

I always feel that you’re belittling me.

 

[Ban-jani]

I always feel that you’re belittling me.

You deserve it

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

You deserve it

That's made me feel even more insecure.