COVID-19 — Coronavirus

[Claytop]

Since we’re doing graphs...

Hopefully we can more follow China’s arc than Spain or Italy.

 

[ballinio]

Some woman on the news in a piece about social distancing in other countries and the lack of it here has just said nothing much has changed for her because if they follow advice they’re giving in to it. “It” being a virus that doesn’t understand the concept of defiance. Some people deserve to die.

Thick doesn’t come close

 

[bluemoon32]

Just had a bit of a row with a neighbour who just walked in the door( thats normal) for a cup of tea with my Mrs.
My partner had COPD and i said she shouldnt really be going around visiting folk for tea.
She had her tea then stormed out, caused a row between my partner and i.
Huge overeaction by me or understandable ?

 

[Ban-jani]

A pneumologist from well respected Uni clinic Hamburg-Eppendorf just stated on tv
doubling ICU capacity won't work as non-covid severe cases have to stay,
PPE is getting more and more scarce which is absolutely unacceptable,

and even if most people are disciplined keeping social distance out on the streets (many annoyingly don't)
"we are now at the point that there is no alternative for a lockdown in Germany", he stated.

You lot really should hurry up, having lower capacity than us.
It's an exponential curve mind. Remember Italy. That's the most important fact.

If WE go into full alert, I tell you, you have no reason to hesitate anymore.

If it gets to Monday and we haven’t something is very wrong.

I’m awaiting a tidal wave of sick people in the doorways of our already stretched hospitals.

Doctors will have to choose who to save.

It’s going to be the ugliest thing we’ve seen outside wartime.

 

[PragueBlue]

It's an existing drug. Some old people here will be on it and not know it as it's used in some arthritis medicines.

I used to take it many years ago as an anti-malarial. It's pretty much useless for that now in most areas.

 

[twosips]

FDA not fucking about waiving through that malaria stuff.

Perhaps their scientists have seen enough evidence already?

They haven't though have they? Trump was lying as per usual. The FDA have come out and said they're beginning trials on it. They literally had to correct him after his press conference.

 

[Chippy_boy]

It’s still the case fataility rate tho.

and as I keep pointing out. In China the WHO looked for the iceberg assuming the known cases were the tip, they didn’t find it. So this is the calculation they are using to calculate mortality rate.

I honestly think this is a case of showing what happens when there isn’t enough ICU beds.

Something is not right though mate. According to Whitty and co, we had between 5,000 and 10,000 unregistered cases in the UK 1 week ago. On that basis, we'd have maybe 30,000 or so now. Let's say they were wrong and we have 60,000. That is 0.1% of the population. 999 people out of 1,000 uninfected.

That doesn't stack up with what we are seeing, does it? I mean there's 2 people (at least) on this very forum with it. There's loads of people in the media have it. It seems way more than 1 in 1,000, doesn't it?

 

[grunge]

Just had a bit of a row with a neighbour who just walked in the door( thats normal) for a cup of tea with my Mrs.
My partner had COPD and i said she shouldnt really be going around visiting folk for tea.
She had her tea then stormed out, caused a row between my partner and i.
Huge overeaction by me or understandable ?

perfectly valid to me!

 

[blue b4 the moon]

And I'll keep updating this, but I've been tracking Italian deaths for a few days and there does definitely seem to be a downward trend here. Not in the numbers of deaths per day, which is still going up. But the number of deaths as a percentage of total, does appear to be falling. This is somewhat encouraging at least.

Lockdown date was the 9th I think.

Just hope these are true figures and in which case it is working albeit at a slow pace.

 

[dronefromsector7G]

If it gets to Monday and we haven’t something is very wrong.

I’m awaiting a tidal wave of sick people in the doorways of our already stretched hospitals.

Doctors will have to choose who to save.

It’s going to be the ugliest thing we’ve seen outside wartime.

My Mrs has been told by a council worker she knows there’ll be a lockdown in the next couple of days