COVID-19 — Coronavirus

[Tricky_Trev]

If a postman has it, will he/she not be passing it on to everyone who opens a letter he/she delivered?

You should be washing your hands immediately after handling any delivery, be it a parcel or letter. And do not touch your face at all. If you take those precautions and do it strictly, you should be fine even if the postman/delivery driver has the virus and you kept 2m away.

 

[mexico1970]

The Indian lockdown is going to be particularly difficult for the poor there.

 

[BlueAnorak]

so much Uninformed bollocks in this, it beggars belief.
B,C,D and F are total crap that just do not stand up to scrutiny.

I forgot to mention the lack of testing, but B-D and F are very important so do tell me why Taiwan, South Korea and Singapore are doing so well then? I'm intrigued. It's not just testing

 

[Chippy_boy]

yet every day another company says they can make and supply ventilators from formula 1 teams to Gtec . I would like to see this great publicity being shown to be utilised on the frontline, that may calm people fears about ventilators

Yes, but how long does it take? I mean months is a short timeframe to get a new manufacturing line set up. But in COVID-19 land, the numbers are ramping daily. Having (say) double or treble the capacity in 2 or 3 months is a fat lot of use. Hopefully we can ramp up capacity much sooner. Some London hospitals are teetering on the edge already, I gather.

 

[BlueRockape]

The Spanish figure is worrying as they are operating a much stricter lockdown than here and have been for some time but it is going up and up.

This is what I fear for the UK.

On a side note just had a package arrive I usually have to sign and show passport but he just threw it over the gate shouted adios and fucked off on his scooter.... had to laugh

 

[johnnytapia]

Here’s the timeline

- Girl A has house drinks with 8 other people 13th of March, our friends Couple B attend

- We see Couple B but don’t touch them, shake hands etc. on Saturday 21st 8 days later

- Girl A tested positive and was in hospital last weekend 20th-22nd

- Couple B, our friends show symptoms yesterday 24th of March

- Girl A tells them she’s tested positive.

- No one else at Girl A’s house party group show symptoms at all.

- Couple B have still be going to work and seeing family etc. so there’s a chance they’ve caught in the meantime.

- We’re only 2 days away from that 14 day window of not showing symptoms.

Like some question from "Ask the Family"!!

 

[The_Mo]

Yes, but how long does it take? I mean months is a short timeframe to get a new manufacturing line set up. But in COVID-19 land, the numbers are ramping daily. Having (say) double or treble the capacity in 2 or 3 months is a fat lot of use. Hopefully we can ramp up capacity much sooner. Some London hospitals are teetering on the edge already, I gather.

Was reading something about a family engineering firm in Wales which created a ventilator in 3 days and is now pumping out 100 a day. Will see if I can find it.

 

[Marvin]

The Spanish figure is worrying as they are operating a much stricter lockdown than here and have been for some time but it is going up and up.

What is going up and up? What does that mean? Watch the new cases. That is the best guide the general public has and it's not a very good guide because testing rates change. We can probably assume that in the height of the epidemic a country will not have the resources for a testing campaign so it should be a reliable day to check. What is the new case trend doing in Spain? That is a guide as to whether it's peaking.

Beware a regional aspect to these epidemics. We keep thinking back to China as the example but that was one City. In the USA they have state wide epidemics at different stages of development. We may have the same in the UK, and Italy and Spain probably have a regional aspect which may give rise to double peaks in the national data i.e. as one city like Madrid declines an area like Catalonia may peak.

 

[Chippy_boy]

You should be washing your hands immediately after handling any delivery, be it a parcel or letter. And do not touch your face at all. If you take those precautions and do it strictly, you should be fine even if the postman/delivery driver has the virus and you kept 2m away.

And if you can help it, don't touch the post for a few days, after which time it will be virus-free for sure. It's only bills anyway.

 

[BlueAnorak]

Don't know why people keep mentioning China's figures, they've quite obviously lied like cvnts

Yep. Taiwan, Singapore and more recently Korea and Japan and treated the Chinese pronouncements with the respect they deserved.