COVID-19 — Coronavirus

[blue b4 the moon]

I’m sticking to the alcohol kills it theory.

Cover both bases and drink Gluehwein.

Happy to be of service. ;)

 

[robbieh]

don’t think many would touch a warm beer mind you

The Spanish would say we do!

 

[Vic]

If Ineos could build, from scratch, in ten days, a manufacturing plant that can produce 1 million hand sanitisers a month, how the fuck have we ended up with a country that can't provide its most critical staff with gowns? GOWNS????

Too many immigrants needed? Seriously.... they'd have to highlight some of the problems in the UK sweatshops.

https://www.business-humanrights.or...e-workers-earning-less-than-half-minimum-wage

 

[AlgarveBlu]

Both Specificity and sensitivity addressed in the report.

Specificity being very high in this case.

Higher specificity and lower sensitivity may lead to more false negatives then?

 

[robbieh]

So the 888 figure today Is as reported, hospitals only. No care homes, no hospices, no deaths in the community.

 

[dave_blue12]

Mike Ryan is looking at the wrong data.

Would you like to elaborate ?

Given that no vaccine has as yet been developed for any coronavirus pinning hopes on said vaccine would seem to be a stretch.

 

[kaz7]

So the 888 figure today Is as reported, hospitals only. No care homes, no hospices, no deaths in the community.

yep the daily figure is just hospitals

 

[DrBlueBob]

It’s all very well queuing up outside shops on a nice sunny day in April. In November in the freezing cold, with wind and rain battering against customers faces, not so much

I hope businesses and government have come up with ideas and strategies to mitigate this come September onwards as we don’t want people being admitted to hospital with hyperthermia!

I suppose we would see how many people are shopping for essentials. Anyway, no such thing as bad weather, just the wrong clothes. :-)

 

[denislawsbackheel]

There appears to be more going around than C19 at this time. One good tip is to stop drinking cold drinks, as these will flush any virus further into your body. Drinking hot drinks has a better chance of killing it, whether Vimto or tea etc. This is being advised in some other countries, and sounds logical.

Logical my arse.
Utter irresponsible bullshit.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-51735367

 

[xgorton]

Utter irresponsible bullshit.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-51735367

No more cold beer for you.

 

[AlgarveBlu]

Read the report.
False pos and false neg are independent.
They had a very low false neg value.

missed that is that on one of the links in the piece with the interview or a separate paper you have posted?

 

[Corky]

Utter irresponsible bullshit.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-51735367

I wasn't on about covid though was I? And it is something that does no harm at all if incorrect.

 

[Vic]

No idea of the actual reasons but as of yesterday I qualified for a test. I don't need one but if I did I have no clue how to go about it. Where do you go? How do you book an appointment? What proof do you need?

Possibly might be a reason why there not getting anywhere near the numbers they apparently say they can test.

I don't expect ministers to arrange tests themselves. They have people to do that. But we recruited or diverted thousands of civil servants to do get Brexit done by the end of the year. Are they all still working on that?

 

[SWP's back]

So the 888 figure today Is as reported, hospitals only. No care homes, no hospices, no deaths in the community.

Yes and only 150 from the previous day.

 

[SWP's back]

There appears to be more going around than C19 at this time. One good tip is to stop drinking cold drinks, as these will flush any virus further into your body. Drinking hot drinks has a better chance of killing it, whether Vimto or tea etc. This is being advised in some other countries, and sounds logical.

Have heard that gullible isn’t actually in the dictionary.

Keep your bullshit “good tips” to yourself.

 

[Corky]

Have heard that gullible isn’t actually in the dictionary.

Keep your bullshit “good tips” to yourself.

As stated it wasn't about COVID - and it does not harm.

 

[Marvin]

Yet again only half the UK's testing capacity has been called upon. Is this the strategy of a government hell bent on suppressing the virus?

 

[Vic]

See ministry of justice have paused early release scheme after prisoners released by mistake. Ffs how incompetent are they? It's not difficult surely to distinguish which can be let out.

All in open prisons. They wouldn't be in open prisons if they couldn't be let out (a bit of generalisation). They all went back in when requested.

 

[Gaylord du Bois]

Yet again only half the UK's testing capacity has been called upon. Is this the strategy of a government hell bent on suppressing the virus?

Could be down to a geographical issue. Our closest test centres are180 miles from each other. The nearest to us is 80 miles away. A lot of people don't have the means to get to either.
Fuck knows how they expect anyone with symptoms to get there.

 

[Nellies left peg]

All in open prisons. They wouldn't be in open prisons if they couldn't be let out (a bit of generalisation). They all went back in when requested.

Yes but the process off letting the wrong people out is still going on. That was my point. There is a local open prison near us and the fuckers are walking out on a weekly basis