COVID-19 — Coronavirus

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jay_mcfc said:
I’d love to know how many people died from all of those combined. Or how many billions were spent trying to fight them.

People genuinely think that because the whole universe wasn’t completely wiped out that it’s all hype.
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For swine flu, they don't actually know how many people got it. The WHO at the time said 18,000 people died from it, but that only included deaths confirmed by lab testing. Subsequent studies have estimated anywhere between 150,000 and 575,000 deaths from between 700 million and 1.4 billion cases, and the WHO later admitted to an estimate 284,500 deaths. But of course most of those were in poor countries, so no-one cared and it's still portrayed as an overblown thing.

Of course the other issue with that graph is that almost all of those outbreaks lasted multiple years, so you can basically put whatever date you want to fit whatever purpose you want. Swine flu emerged in 2009, but they've put 2010 to fit their agenda.
 
My breathing gone heavy through the night and woke up with a tight chest! Can’t take any chances with my asthma. Going to try and get tested today.

And the games off.
 
worsleyweb said:
My breathing gone heavy through the night and woke up with a tight chest! Can’t take any chances with my asthma. Going to try and get tested today.

And the games off.
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Happened to me and I've been off work the last 2 days as a precaution, full of cold. You won't get a test mate, they're only testing people who have been in direct contact with a confirmed case or travelled back from a high risk area.

You could try and blag them on 111 that you have been, but how far they look into it I don't know.
 
dozzie26 said:
Happened to me and I've been off work the last 2 days as a precaution, full of cold. You won't get a test mate, they're only testing people who have been in direct contact with a confirmed case or travelled back from a high risk area.

You could try and blag them on 111 that you have been, but how far they look into it I don't know.
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I can understand that strategy a week ago, but the game has changed now, the virus will be everywhere. Obviously if they’ve got minimal test kits then they have to blag some bullshit.
 
dozzie26 said:
Happened to me and I've been off work the last 2 days as a precaution, full of cold. You won't get a test mate, they're only testing people who have been in direct contact with a confirmed case or travelled back from a high risk area.

You could try and blag them on 111 that you have been, but how far they look into it I don't know.
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Might test him as he has asthma and is therefore probably higher risk than many other people.

Personally don't see much point in testing people that aren't at risk. If you are fit and healthy, there's not much danger. Probably better just getting those people to self-isolate whether they have it or not, rather than risk them infecting more people going to the GP or hospital.
 
KnaresboroughBlue said:
Might test him as he has asthma and is therefore probably higher risk than many other people.

Personally don't see much point in testing people that aren't at risk. If you are fit and healthy, there's not much danger. Probably better just getting those people to self-isolate whether they have it or not, rather than risk them infecting more people going to the GP or hospital.
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You've got to test people who are healthy because of people they might have been in contact with before they realised they had it.
 
worsleyweb said:
My breathing gone heavy through the night and woke up with a tight chest! Can’t take any chances with my asthma. Going to try and get tested today.

And the games off.
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Didn’t Karen say she was with you at Wembley? You should be able to get your test on that basis.
Good luck.
 
I'm With Stupid said:
You've got to test people who are healthy because of people they might have been in contact with before they realised they had it.
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There could be thousands of those though over a 2-week period. Wembley trip, pubs, restaurants, trains, work, social activities, family and friends etc. I would have thought they could just personally warn those people that they know and then those people could self isolate (or at risk ones get tested).
 
KnaresboroughBlue said:
There could be thousands of those though over a 2-week period. Wembley trip, pubs, restaurants, trains, work, social activities, family and friends etc. I would have thought they could just personally warn those people that they know and then of of those at risk could self isolate (or at risk ones get tested).
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But that's the reality of the situation. A supermarket worker in Vietnam just became their 35th case after two British people who had the virus visited the shop. It doesn't take much, and that's why they have teams to follow up on as many people as possible who had contact with them.
 
What is the government waiting for to put us in lock down? Surely money is not as important as people's lives
 
Chippy_boy said:
Weird thing with the stats as well. We have 383 cases, but zero serious or critical. How does that work? How do you go from jolly hockey sticks to dead, whilst bypassing serious?

All evidence so far points to 80% mild, 15% serious - needing hospital treatment, oxygen perhaps and 5% critical - intensive care. Often, as in Italy, worse stats with more serious or critical. And yet we have none? Spain has 101 critical. France 86. Even Germany has 9. But we have none? Very odd.
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The first diagnosis of the woman at Wythenshawe hospital is the daughter of a fella from work. She had been on a skiing trip in northern Italy. There were 28 people in the chalet they stayed in and 18 of them caught it. Some of them are in a serious condition.
Whoever said there are no serious cases is full of shit.
 
bluemcr said:
What is the government waiting for to put us in lock down? Surely money is not as important as people's lives
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That’s a good one.....

It’s only the ‘economically inactive’ that will die so we will ride it out as much as possible
 
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