COVID-19 — Coronavirus

[Saddleworth2]

Not disputing that in the slightest. All I'll say is by their nature hospitals will deal with the worst of it, and none of us are set up for something like this.

That’s the scary thing. For most of our lives we live with an attitude that says ‘if we get ill with anything, then we will be treated well by the NHS and hopefully we will get better. Nurses and doctors will do everything they can to help us recover’. This situation is very different potentially. If the outbreak is not paused, our ICU capacity will be totally overwhelmed and doctors will have to choose who gets the Ventilator and who gets to die in the corridor on a trolley. That’s not being pessimistic, that’s just what’s happening in Italy who are only two weeks ahead of us in the contagion rates.

 

[Ban-jani]

BBC breaking - biggest increase in a single day now with 80 odd more cases in UK.

 

[Blue Hefner]

BREAKING: 456 people have now tested positive for coronavirus in the UK

 

[Chippy_boy]

It's going to be extremely difficult to implement those measures, the Chinese authorities in some quarters were welding doors closed so people couldn't leave their homes.

They have a society that is used to doing what it is told and an authoritarian regime that uses military force to ensure it stays that way.

I can only imagine if we imposed a similar regime here then there would be total anarchy on the streets. Do we have the resources to contain such a thing whilst also dealing with the virus?

We need to avoid panic and the Chinese approach induces just that.

Of course, I accept all of that.

But we could try, and we could do *some* of it. I mean like not going ahead with an event in Cheltenham where 250,000 people will truck up and mingle, FFS. Or - here's a novel idea - have some basic controls in place on people coming in from Italy?

 

[route46]

Bury college on lockdown

 

[Millwallawayveteran1988]

Exact same script as me 2 days ago. I left work with the same symptoms and was passed from pillar to post with 111, contact your GP instead. There is a flu going round, I've been lay on the sofa most of this morning still off work.

Not been tested though? There are going to be loads of people with this who haven’t been tested. Maybe that’s why our numbers are so much lower

 

[MCFC1993]

BBC breaking - biggest increase in a single day now with 80 odd more cases in UK.

BREAKING: 456 people have now tested positive for coronavirus in the UK

And that's just the people they've tested, plenty of people at home with all the symptoms just being told to self isolate.

 

[MCFC1993]

Well 111 were a bag of wank. Got a doctor calling me back in the next hour. Coughing and wheezy tight chest now.

Something not right!

Sounds like me at the moment, eventually got a call back 9-10 hours later (last night) telling me to book an appointment with my GP. Rang the GP and they've got nothing available for 2 weeks, so now they've given me an out of hours service.

No wonder our figures reported havent spiked, we're all keeling over at home instead.

 

[Chippy_boy]

BREAKING: 456 people have now tested positive for coronavirus in the UK

Actually this is quite good news. +73 today is another 19%.

That's the third day in a row it's been in the 17% to 19% range, rather than the +35% range it was a until only a few days ago. +18% a day would mean "only" 12,000 cases by the end of the month, which is actually not that bad, compared to how it could be.

 

[cibaman]

Actually this is quite good news. +73 today is another 19%.

That's the third day in a row it's been in the 17% to 19% range, rather than the +35% range it was a until only a few days ago. +18% a day would mean "only" 12,000 cases by the end of the month, which is actually not that bad, compared to how it could be.

It’s still fairly meaningless if they’re only testing small numbers