COVID-19 — Coronavirus

[Gaylord du Bois]

Best begin training up a few thousand midwives for the new year.

 

[bobmcfc]

I agree. Breast is best.

I breastfed Edison but when I got pregnant again when he was 6 months old my milk dried up completely by 7 months so I was forced to put him on formula. Because he was so premature he wouldn’t take the breast so I had to express all my milk by pump every 4 hours including in the night. I did this for 7 months and it was brutal .

many women can’t breastfeed and within 10 days of birth milk dries up and is gone forever . Sometimes you just don’t have that option

 

[cibaman]

What puzzles me is that the powers that be must run simulations all the time because it's their job but nobody saw the possibility that panic buying bog rolls and pasta would be a thing, I mean what is the point of simulating epidemics if they can't even see that the basic structures are going to fail even before the epidemics take hold.

We’re a liberal democracy. Which means it’s not always possible for governments to make certain decisions until the public can see with their own eyes that they are necessary. Imagine if they’d imposed restrictions to stop panic buying a month ago. It would have caused outrage. And, because it would inevitably have leaked that those decisions were being considered, simply have brought the panic buying forward.

 

[Sheriff Fatman]

Best begin training up a few thousand midwives for the new year.

Anyone deliberately making a baby and bringing a newborn into this environment is not the full shilling imho.

 

[kaz7]

I agree Karen on the infection figures but I am not sure about @Chippy_boy 's claim that deaths in care homes will just be recorded as normal deaths. I am pretty sure that many care homes will be following end of life care protocols and be recording the cause of death, eg linking in with local GPs etc as appropriate. There may well come a time when services are so swamped that standard approaches go out of the window.

I was saying before that if a patient who is expected to die of a chest complaint,say COPD and they they start with a sore throat the day before then they are not going to test for the virus,the death will go down as COPD,i am not suggesting anyone telling lies but they won't be testing them post mortum

 

[1.618034]

I breastfed Edison but when I got pregnant again when he was 6 months old my milk dried up completely by 7 months so I was forced to put him on formula. Because he was so premature he wouldn’t take the breast so I had to express all my milk by pump every 4 hours including in the night. I did this for 7 months and it was brutal .

many women can’t breastfeed and within 10 days of birth milk dries up and is gone forever . Sometimes you just don’t have that option

Sorry, my really bad attempt at humour. :-/

My mrs had real problems, so had to give up and we went Formula all the way. It chilled her out and it was absolutely fine.

All the best and stay safe.

 

[oakiecokie]

At least the wife has 18 jigsaw puzzles to complete.She started buying them once she got within 6 months of retiring.

 

[1.618034]

Anyone deliberately making a baby and bringing a newborn into this environment is not the full shilling imho.

Yep. Make birth control free to all.

 

[BlueHammer85]

Maybe a dumb question, But does more people catching the virus mean more of the virus disappears ?

 

[kaz7]

The Bank of England has cut its base rate to a record low of 0.1% - warning the coronavirus pandemic will result in a "sharp and large" economic shock.

Its rate-setting committee, led by new governor Andrew Bailey, also decided at its unscheduled meeting to re-start the post-crisis asset purchase programme, also known as quantitative easing.

The Bank said it would make an extra £200bn in bond purchases, effectively printing new money to push into the financial system to support activity as the coronavirus crisis threatens to shut down the economy