COVID-19 — Coronavirus

[aguero93:20]

We should cut off italy whilst we can,too late for china

Nuke them both.

 

[TheRemainsOfTheDave]

Well smoking is common but not overly so, I mean I don't know what the European mean number of smokers is so...
It's maybe down to the fact our population is old. We have a lot of elders and have few children.

Second oldest population after Japan according to the NY Times. Looks like they're quoting median age as per Wikipedia.

 

[AlgarveBlu]

Couple of days or there abouts,i have had ME for over 25 yrs amongst other things,if you are normally fit and healthy i wouldn't worry too much

interesting this point as there’s been quite a few doctors from recollection that sadly passed away in their late 30s,40s and early 50s. Italian marathon runner and amateur footballer who is 36 is in intensive care still after contracting a week a go. Just trying to work out if all these younger people had underlying issues.

 

[Ban-jani]

Madness. Laptops are better VFM these days and portable to boot.

I said this at the time.

We had the screens already.

We’ve got 2 laptops between 5 currently so if this gets worse things will become interesting.

The fact I work in the staffing industry makes it worse, as every **** will stop hiring.

 

[BlueTG]

What are the chances this was knocking about before new year?

Almost everyone I worked with took weeks off work at some point in the run up to Christmas, 3 were on steroids for their chest infections and I felt like I was on deaths door for over two weeks, not leaving bed for 4 days and didn’t breathe correctly for about 4 weeks.

Seems to be a lot of people reckoning this has been flying around for a little longer, but I’m not so sure.

 

[Metal Biker]

What are the chances this was knocking about before new year?

Almost everyone I worked with took weeks off work at some point in the run up to Christmas, 3 were on steroids for their chest infections and I felt like I was on deaths door for over two weeks, not leaving bed for 4 days and didn’t breathe correctly for about 4 weeks.

Seems to be a lot of people reckoning this has been flying around for a little longer, but I’m not so sure.

It was; the "19" in COVID-19 refers to the year it was identified.

COronaVIrus Disease 2019

 

[Rammy Blue]

My company implemented some draconian measures today - stockpiling at CostCo this morning followed by the afternoon in the pub rather than go to the office.

Shit work, but someone has to do it.

 

[kaz7]

interesting this point as there’s been quite a few doctors from recollection that sadly passed away in their late 30s,40s and early 50s. Italian marathon runner and amateur footballer who is 36 is in intensive care still after contracting a week a go. Just trying to work out if all these younger people had underlying issues.

i didn't know about that aside from the dr who discovered it,maybe the underlying issues is a bit of a lie

 

[purplenose]

Well smoking is common but not overly so, I mean I don't know what the European mean number of smokers is so...
It's maybe down to the fact our population is old. We have a lot of elders and have few children.

Do you think it could also be down to many undetected/presented/infections?

 

[purplenose]

Montenegro and the Czech Republic have banned flights from Italy, it seems common sense to me.

More so than sending school kids and teachers over regardless. In Boris we trust!

 

[Millwallawayveteran1988]

4.25% in Italy is quite a lot higher than elsewhere.

wonder why the increase there. Smoking maybe? Is that common in Italy?

It’s 4.25% on positive cases too and a lot of them have only tested positive in the last couple of days so haven’t had time to die yet! I think the rate will be higher when all these new cases filter through. My guess is the Chinese date is simply not reliable and the Italian data is much more realistic.

 

[Deleted member 77198]

Well smoking is common but not overly so, I mean I don't know what the European mean number of smokers is so...
It's maybe down to the fact our population is old. We have a lot of elders and have few children.

At every City home game we are told at half time that “Manchester has the highest number of smoking related deaths in the country”...

Italy has the second highest elderly population in the world!
https://www.worldatlas.com/amp/arti...he-largest-aging-population-in-the-world.html

 

[Deleted member 77198]

It’s 4.25% on positive cases too and a lot of them have only tested positive in the last couple of days so haven’t had time to die yet! I think the rate will be higher when all these new cases filter through. My guess is the Chinese date is simply not reliable and the Italian data is much more realistic.

I believe so too. China didn’t inform their own people about this virus for weeks, did not try to contain this virus for weeks and I’m certain did not release true figures.

 

[Gabriel]

What are the chances this was knocking about before new year?

Almost everyone I worked with took weeks off work at some point in the run up to Christmas, 3 were on steroids for their chest infections and I felt like I was on deaths door for over two weeks, not leaving bed for 4 days and didn’t breathe correctly for about 4 weeks.

Seems to be a lot of people reckoning this has been flying around for a little longer, but I’m not so sure.

Noticed earlier that Spain has confirmed a death from the virus on Feb 13th/14th. It did so after a post-mortem, but I suspect it’ll be a while before there are resources available to test your hypothesis.

 

[marco]

If you are experiencing these symptoms then you should call health services to get guidance.

It is probably not COVID-19, but it should still be assessed and potentially treated if it persists.

not one to make a fuss although i fully understand protecting other people, stayed in all today and im doing the same tomorrow 'no one else here this weekend' symptoms have lifted quite a bit but if they return il call them

 

[Metal Biker]

I believe so too. China didn’t inform their own people about this virus for weeks, did not try to contain this virus for weeks and I’m certain did not release true figures.

China adopted the "nah, it'll be fine" approach.

In their eyes, at least it's stopped people focusing on Hong Kong. ;)

 

[Chippy_boy]

These Italian numbers are a bit of a worry. Why haven’t they stopped travel to and from Italy? Another 700 or so cases and 40 odd more deaths.

a week <ago> there were less than 1000 and around 8 deaths. Now 197 deaths! Pretty high rate. Seems most of ours are coming from Italy too.

A week ago?

Try Tuesday.

 

[Deleted member 77198]

What are the chances this was knocking about before new year?

Almost everyone I worked with took weeks off work at some point in the run up to Christmas, 3 were on steroids for their chest infections and I felt like I was on deaths door for over two weeks, not leaving bed for 4 days and didn’t breathe correctly for about 4 weeks.

Seems to be a lot of people reckoning this has been flying around for a little longer, but I’m not so sure.

It was reported how there was a rise in people dying of “a heavy flu” this Winter
https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www....ill-patient-gps-vaccine-phe-a9244201.html?amp

But surely tests would have been done on them and they would have recognised it was a different kind of virus to influenza?

 

[Indaparkside]

i didn't know about that aside from the dr who discovered it,maybe the underlying issues is a bit of a lie

I see your still alive:)

 

[Indaparkside]

4.25% in Italy is quite a lot higher than elsewhere.

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Yes they just pasta way:)