COVID-19 — Coronavirus

[hilts]

Plus, it could decimate the Bluemoon politics forum.

Have you just told yourself a joke:-)

 

[Chippy_boy]

That’ll be my old dear finished then If that’s true.

Mam is in her 80s in a care home and I haven’t been able to visit now for almost 3 weeks.

I said a couple of weeks back I didn’t expect to see her again and this news has just raised my fears of this.

If it meant a younger person may survive then I would accept that.

Don't despair just yet mate. Even the elderly and frail generally survive this. Their chances are nothing like so good, obviously but even so the vast majority of them recover from it just fine... assuming they even catch it in the first place.

 

[Chippy_boy]

Have you just told yourself a joke:-)

Indeed I have. On a number of levels.

 

[AlgarveBlu]

Time for bank bosses to be arrested and thrown into jail. They gladly took our money from 2008-2010 and are now refusing to help the country in it's hour if need.
Daily Mail link: https://mol.im/a/8174967

Have posted a couple of times on this issue but the government should consider Covid bonds (same principal as war bonds) which offers a discount to market rates so umm basically near zero but tugs on the country’s civic duty in times of crisis.

The institutions should be made to take up a certain percentage based on their net assets on the balance sheet. Would fill a big hole that is going to appear in public finances soon and the institutions are seen to be doing their bit as well and a bit of redemption from 2008 legacy they left us. Obviously open to private investors as well...I would seriously consider it myself.

 

[55yr old teenager]

Some info in here. This maybe based on levels of a particular residents frailty.
https://www.bgs.org.uk/resources/covid-19-managing-the-covid-19-pandemic-in-care-homes

You may be right but he said and I quote "he has been told anybody over the age of 75 in a care home and are tested +ve for COVID19 will not be taken to hospital" he didnt mention any other criteria that maybe taken into account

 

[1.618034]

I think you live round my way, so let’s go for a pint or two when all this blows over if you like? We could always resort to a straightener in the Moor Top car park if it goes badly.

I used to go in the Moor Top when I lived in The Heatons in the early 90s, and played for the pub football team for a couple of seasons, in The Manchester Accountants League of all things!? That was until I got sent off and banned for 11 weeks!

Ah, memories.

 

[1.618034]

Bless her heart.

 

[SilverFox2]

Makes you wonder what you paid your tax and NI for, in their case for perhaps 50 years, only to be told tough shit, no treatment for you. Absolutely shocking and awful.

Actually pensioners continue to pay tax, if its a cost thing then perhaps those who have never paid into the insurance scheme should be sacrificed rather than those who are fully paid up members?

 

[paulchapo]

Yep he said in another interview that he had symptoms but went to the game,ended up with a collapsed lung in intensive care
Last game ever or just last one before the games were stopped? I don't regret going

Yes that's him. No it was my last game before they stopped. I enjoyed it and after decades of misery and no trophies I'll never turn down the chance to see us win one now. Funnily enough I was getting stale of going to games with everything going on, but this enforced absence has made me yearn for the buzz and normality of the games again. I even miss the queues..... a little lol!

 

[kaz7]

The care home question keeps coming up..

Because most care home residents live with frailty and multiple medical conditions, there may be occasions where paramedics, general practitioners, or other healthcare professionals make decisions not to escalate their care to hospital. These decisions will not be taken lightly and care home staff must be prepared to work with healthcare providers to support families and residents if such difficult decisions have to be taken.

Healthcare professionals may find the Clinical Frailty Scale (CFS) to be a useful resource in making and discussing escalation decisions. 13 At the time of writing, the NICE guidance on escalation of COVID positive patients to critical care suggests frailty will play an important part in decision-making.14 It has been suggested that those with a CFS of 5 or more are less likely to benefit from critical care. Primary care providers may wish to consider this in their discussions with residents and relatives, and decisions about escalation to acute care

https://www.bgs.org.uk/resources/covid-19-managing-the-covid-19-pandemic-in-care-homes