COVID-19 — Coronavirus

[marco]

If they were in the trenches and going over the top next day I might excuse them, but WTF.

people like that would never be in a position to be in the trenches and going over the top because they would have shit there pants and would be lying in a heap shouting for mama

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

There are lots of cafes,pubs that are doing a take away system to stay afloat,all food prepared and cook at home,if you can get out then use them and help small businesses stay afloat

There’s going to be a bloodbath in the on-trade. The off-trade will benefit from this. Crazy shift in the balance of power.

 

[havefaith]

No, but my eldest has some difficulties that changes like this don't help cheers.

Gdb, that's a ridiculous post do you have kids, I doubt it with that kind of response.

Bluetonium, hats off to you and the mrs (and the kids) if your having to carry on working in the coming weeks, hope everything works out, take care.

 

[marco]

The thing that's puzzling is that Witty kept saying today that we need to do everything we can to stop the numbers needing ICU treatment below the NHS' ICU capacity. And yet we have still have not shut pubs, restaurants and bars in London, or the underground or trains or airports.

He must either by lying through his face, knowing full well that we have no chance, and not caring that our lack of total clamp down will cause countless - many thousands of - extra deaths. This would seem unlikely for a medical man to be so cavalier and uncaring.

Or, he genuinely believes it's all under control and that we are doing enough. Which also seems ridiculously implausible given our limited NHS resources and the spiralling case numbers.

Puzzling.

it is puzzling, Boris looks like a man thats not slept for a week and that balled headed guy (not sure of name) who does the health speaking well im sure hes an android,he never blinks 'you watch' you can just sense that there not being 100% straight

 

[George Hannah]

We did. It was a roaring success.

"Testing and surveillance

Shortly after confirming that the cause of the cluster of pneumonia in Wuhan was a new coronavirus, Chinese authorities had shared its genetic sequence for international developments of diagnostic kits.[5] The UK subsequently developed a prototype specific laboratory test for the new disease, performed on a sample from the nose, throat, and respiratory tract and tested at PHE's Colindale laboratories in London.[40] By 3 February, 326 tests had been performed in the UK.[4] Over the following few weeks, PHE made the test available to 12 other laboratories in the UK, making it possible to test 1000 people a day.[40]

Following 300 staff being asked to work from home on 26 February 2020 in London, while a suspected person was awaiting a test result for the virus, PHE announced it was to increase surveillance by widening testing around the UK to include people with flu-like symptoms at 100 GP surgeries and eight hospitals: the Royal Brompton and Harefield, Guy's and St Thomas' and Addenbrookes Hospital, as well as hospitals at Brighton and Sussex, Nottingham, South Manchester, Sheffield, Leicester.[88][89] Surveillance was shortly extended to some hospitals and GP surgeries in Scotland.[49]

Drive-through screening centres were set up by Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust at Parsons Green Health Centre on 24 February 2020,[6] and by NHS Lothian at the Western General Hospital in Edinburgh.[7]

On 11 March NHS England announced that testing in NHS laboratories would increase from testing 1,500 to 10,000 per day.[61] The test consists of taking a sample from the nose, throat, deeper lung samples, blood or stool, and transporting the packed samples to the listed PHE regional laboratory designated for the referring laboratory region.[90][91] As of 12/13 March 2020, 29,764 tests had been conducted in the UK, corresponding to 450.8 tests per million people.[92]"

Announced this afternoon that testing would increase to 25,000 per day for key workers

 

[sir baconface]

Maybe you’d like to volunteer to go and be a teaching assistant, dinner lady/man, office staff and have kids cough and sneeze on you then go home and give it to your mum, dad, grandparent, elderly neighbour etc. Everyone else seems to be given options to be able to avoid getting the virus, except school teachers and medical/nhs staff (who are tested)

Those who are on full pay - and guaranteed to keep their job regardless of circumstances -are far from being the worst casualties of this situation.

 

[marco]

US stocks stop trading monday, the pound is down to 1.15 $

 

[aguero93:20]

There’s going to be a bloodbath in the on-trade. The off-trade will benefit from this. Crazy shift in the balance of power.

Tell me about it.

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

19 seconds in is a 20 pinter, she's got an enormous face.

Three.

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

Tell me about it.

If I do, I’ll have to charge you.