COVID-19 — Coronavirus

[Deleted member 77198]

Is it just the first verse or all of it. Scots wont be impressed if it is

It was written by a Scot wasn’t it? Don’t forget the non-rebellious Scots also wanted to crush the rebellious Scots too.

 

[kaz7]

Thanks for your advice Karen, you've been more helpful than 111. Due to my age and no previous health issues, I think they just fobbed me off. The lad I spoke to was trying to, so I kept him on the phone and got one of their nurses to call me and she did the same, literally reading off an internet script to me, not happy with their service. Will be even less happy if it comes back as a positive dose.

Hoping the GP will test for it there and then tonight, and that I get a result pretty sharpish.

It takes 2-3 days to come back so just stay at home
On the plus side,best diet i have ever been on!

 

[SuperstarNeilC]

Madonna and the CoronaVirus Ritual

 

[kaz7]

you watch Karen, in a couple of weeks when the figures are higher and the rumours start on social media that the figures are well below what they should be, the internet will close down in this country and the government will put it down to stop people picking up fake news

i wouldn't put it past mini trump to do that

 

[kippaxwarrior]

It takes 2-3 days to come back so just stay at home
On the plus side,best diet i have ever been on!

What were the symptoms like for you? And do you think your over the worst of it now after a week?

 

[dozzie26]

It takes 2-3 days to come back so just stay at home
On the plus side,best diet i have ever been on!

Don't think my employer is best pleased, in case any colleagues have been in contact with me, and what they have to now do with the office/workforce. I know one colleague is off sick with 'tonsilitis', that they had last week.

End of the day, I feel I have done the right thing removing myself from work and following the 111 protocol, been fobbed off and got a GP appointment off my own back. I don't see what more I could've done.

It'll probably make me look an arse if it comes back negative though.

 

[hello]

Can any clever folks explain why the mortality rate is generally being branded as 2-3% instead of the 5-6% suggested when only considering completed cases. It seems to me they are using deaths vs total reported cases instead of deaths v recovered cases which seems to me to be the obvious and more accurate metric to use.

 

[squirtyflower]

Can any clever folks explain why the mortality rate is generally being branded as 2-3% instead of the 5-6% suggested when only considering completed cases. It seems to me they are using deaths vs total reported cases instead of deaths v recovered cases which seems to me to be the obvious and more accurate metric to use.

If you look at the worldmeters website they are using the latter method.

Therefore the current death rate in France is 64%, truly frightening.
However they have only closed 33 cases, 12 recovered and 21 dead.

 

[kaz7]

What were the symptoms like for you? And do you think your over the worst of it now after a week?

Really sore throat,hacking cough and the start of pneumonia,i got treatment straight away because i knew not to wait,endless coughing still but clearing my lungs every time,i have to assume the worst is over but it can rebound so i am being cautious,now i am in the system a call will get help quickly,now i can breathe i am causiously optomistic ,bear in mind my health is bad anyway so this is NOT going to happen to people in good health normally,i know it is a scary situation but don't panic

 

[Chippy_boy]

Can any clever folks explain why the mortality rate is generally being branded as 2-3% instead of the 5-6% suggested when only considering completed cases. It seems to me they are using deaths vs total reported cases instead of deaths v recovered cases which seems to me to be the obvious and more accurate metric to use.

This has been discussed widely and no-one seems to have an answer.

The one possible explanation I put forward was that perhaps it takes people longer to recover than it does to die. That would make it look like the mortality rate is higher than it actually is (since a higher proportion of the active cases will recover eventually). This is just my theory however.

 

[Chippy_boy]

Really sore throat,hacking cough and the start of pneumonia,i got treatment straight away because i knew not to wait,endless coughing still but clearing my lungs every time,i have to assume the worst is over but it can rebound so i am being cautious,now i am in the system a call will get help quickly,now i can breathe i am causiously optomistic ,bear in mind my health is bad anyway so this is NOT going to happen to people in good health normally,i know it is a scary situation but don't panic

Hey Karen, very glad to hear you are on the home straight.

Without delving into too much personal detail, would you mind sharing what you mean by "my health is bad anyway". Of course if it's nowt to do with COVID-19 or you just want to tell me to mind my own ****ing business, then perfectly understandable if you'd rather not.

But I am intriqued as to whether you normally suffer with a bad chest (no pics needed) like asthma or COPD or something which one might assume would make you more vulnerable... or not?

 

[Gareth Barry Conlon]

Can any clever folks explain why the mortality rate is generally being branded as 2-3% instead of the 5-6% suggested when only considering completed cases. It seems to me they are using deaths vs total reported cases instead of deaths v recovered cases which seems to me to be the obvious and more accurate metric to use.

I guess some are adjusting for what they think are the true numbers of infections and deaths and others are using the confirmed numbers. The unconfirmed are likely to be much higher than is reported so I guess that gives you the range. I would imagine that it will be closer to 1% than 5-6& when decent data is available. That said if the unconfirmed are much higher then that is not good either.

 

[kaz7]

Hey Karen, very glad to hear you are on the home straight.

Without delving into too much personal detail, would you mind sharing what you mean by "my health is bad anyway". Of course if it's nowt to do with COVID-19 or you just want to tell me to mind my own ****ing business, then perfectly understandable if you'd rather not.

But I am intriqued as to whether you normally suffer with a bad chest (no pics needed) like asthma or COPD or something which one might assume would make you more vulnerable... or not?

I have ME amongst other things,my immune system is low and over reacts to infections,i have very mild almost no asthma but there is lots in the family and i have the allergy side of it so i always have inhalers in for winter time in case i get ill,well out of date but i got straight on them,i was one of the reps who launched one of them back in the day,it helps having insider info as such

 

[MillionMilesAway]

Don't think my employer is best pleased, in case any colleagues have been in contact with me, and what they have to now do with the office/workforce. I know one colleague is off sick with 'tonsilitis', that they had last week.

End of the day, I feel I have done the right thing removing myself from work and following the 111 protocol, been fobbed off and got a GP appointment off my own back. I don't see what more I could've done.

It'll probably make me look an arse if it comes back negative though.

There are worse things to look like an arse about.

 

[Chippy_boy]

I have ME amongst other things,my immune system is low and over reacts to infections,i have very mild almost no asthma but there is lots in the family and i have the allergy side of it so i always have inhalers in for winter time in case i get ill,well out of date but i got straight on them,i was one of the reps who launched one of them back in the day,it helps having insider info as such

Thanks. Drawing some comfort from that, so I appreciate you sharing. And do get well soon!

 

[SWP's back]

I am in the process of transferring two pensions into my works pension at the moment, i was told it may take 3 to 4 weeks to complete, that was 3 weeks ago and im concerned niw about the transfer value.

Depends what you were invested in mate. I take it you’re transferring Defined Contribution pensions?

 

[Blue Maverick]

We’ve just been on an exercise with 3 pumps, one of the guys thought he had it because he had everything on the checklist, his wife travels round UK airports so thinks maybe he got it off her. Phoned 111 they asked him if he’d been to China or Italy answered no they said well you haven’t got it!! So if he has that’s at least 20 people in the brigade who have it plus 3 stations would have to be shut for deep clean, that’s how quick it could spiral.

 

[dozzie26]

There are worse things to look like an arse about.

It's more if liability is pinned on me. Like why did you come in to work if you felt even slightly ill? Working on a contract for them within a hospital at the moment, which isn't ideal in the current climate.

I think they feel as if they've not done enough either protect their staff, but the experience I've had from 111 and the vague statements from the Government, I feel the whole country is unprepared.

 

[Ban-jani]

We’ve just been on an exercise with 3 pumps, one of the guys thought he had it because he had everything on the checklist, his wife travels round UK airports so thinks maybe he got it off her. Phoned 111 they asked him if he’d been to China or Italy answered no they said well you haven’t got it!! So if he has that’s at least 20 people in the brigade who have it plus 3 stations would have to be shut for deep clean, that’s how quick it could spiral.

Do 111 know how viruses work?

 

[hello]

Don't think my employer is best pleased, in case any colleagues have been in contact with me, and what they have to now do with the office/workforce. I know one colleague is off sick with 'tonsilitis', that they had last week.

End of the day, I feel I have done the right thing removing myself from work and following the 111 protocol, been fobbed off and got a GP appointment off my own back. I don't see what more I could've done.

It'll probably make me look an arse if it comes back negative though.

Are you sure your not training to turncoat into a workshy plastic scouser now they are going to win the league?

Hope you get the results back swiftly either way.