Corona Virus: How Are We Doing?

[Dogtrousers]

Been in bed all day with a temperature and sweating absolute buckets. No cough tho, and it seems to be declining already so probably just A virus rather than THE virus. However I think this means I should isolate for 7 days. Office has everyone on home working so if I'm up for it I can go back to working tomorrow.

 

[Smokin Joe]

Been in bed all day with a temperature and sweating absolute buckets. No cough tho, and it seems to be declining already so probably just A virus rather than THE virus. However I think this means I should isolate for 7 days. Office has everyone on home working so if I'm up for it I can go back to working tomorrow.

If you're lucky it will be a mild dose of the virus which will probably immunise you from anything worse. Fingers crossed your recovery continues.

Funny how Brexit seems no more than a minor inconvenience now, doesn't it? This is a real crisis.

 

[Dogtrousers]

Funny how Brexit seems no more than a minor inconvenience now, doesn't it? This is a real crisis.

Well they're not completely unrelated: supply of food, supply of medicines and staff for the NHS is all quite EU dependent so decisions made in Brexit negotiations could affect our ability to deal with the virus in the longer term.

 

[glasgowcyclist]

Sorry for the RT link.


View: https://twitter.com/RTUKnews/status/1239584711346769920?s=20

Thick as shít in the neck of a bottle. And no doubt proud of it.

 

[Archie_tect]

I see the benefit of staggering the level of infection in terms of the NHS coping, but everyone will be exposed to the virus eventually- people can't isolate themselves for ever. Fit and healthy people will cope- it's not a war whatever your national Government may suggest; 98+% of the population will be fine and we can protect the infirm and vulnerable by isolating them.

 

[Mugshot]

Funny how Brexit seems no more than a minor inconvenience now, doesn't it? This is a real crisis.

Brexit is certainly on the back burner for now, or at least it should be, although it appears the government are still determined to plough ahead with it. Is Corona a bigger crisis, certainly, but that doesn't mean that Brexit isn't/won't be a crisis itself, it's rather the same argument that flu kills people too so why worry about Corona.
Up to a week or so ago I've seen the same people that have been telling everyone that Brexit predictions were scare mongering saying precisely the same about Corona, they've largely shut up now.

 

[Dave7]

Repeating what myself and several others said on the Old farts Retired section. At least 4 but probably more, on that section alone, got what we all called the lurgy back in November/December. We all had very similar symptoms and were bed ridden for days/weeks (totally different parts of the uk). Myself and MrsD got it mid December through to late Feb (still getting the affects).
Indipendantly we all think we could have had C Virus. It may have been recognised first in China but could well have been in other countries before that.
Being selfish I hope thats correct and we have survived it.

 

[Mugshot]

Repeating what myself and several others said on the Old farts Retired section. At least 4 but probably more, on that section alone, got what we all called the lurgy back in November/December. We all had very similar symptoms and were bed ridden for days/weeks (totally different parts of the uk). Myself and MrsD got it mid December through to late Feb (still getting the affects).
Indipendantly we all think we could have had C Virus. It may have been recognised first in China but could well have been in other countries before that.
Being selfish I hope thats correct and we have survived it.

It's an interesting one. There was an awful lot of that kind of thing around pre/post Christmas, I include myself in that number that was suffering from an uncontrollable dry cough. As far as I'm aware though there was not a spike in the death rate that would have been expected if the infection had been Corona, so, it seems unlikely that it was.

 

[perplexed]

Brexit is certainly on the back burner for now, or at least it should be, although it appears the government are still determined to plough ahead with it. Is Corona a bigger crisis, certainly, but that doesn't mean that Brexit isn't/won't be a crisis itself, it's rather the same argument that flu kills people too so why worry about Corona.
Up to a week or so ago I've seen the same people that have been telling everyone that Brexit predictions were scare mongering saying precisely the same about Corona, they've largely shut up now.

With this in mind, I saw recently that the odds of Johnson lasting a full term have been reduced by the bookies - if I see the link I'll post it. Shortages are impacting people in reality rather than in some hypothetical way, so there may well be a considerable shift of attitude towards the antagonistic end of the spectrum regarding Johnson, away from the 'lovable buffoon' persona.

 

[steve292]

With this in mind, I saw recently that the odds of Johnson lasting a full term have been reduced by the bookies - if I see the link I'll post it. Shortages are impacting people in reality rather than in some hypothetical way, so there may well be a considerable shift of attitude towards the antagonistic end of the spectrum regarding Johnson, away from the 'lovable buffoon' persona.

Silver linings and all that.

 

[Mugshot]

With this in mind, I saw recently that the odds of Johnson lasting a full term have been reduced by the bookies - if I see the link I'll post it. Shortages are impacting people in reality rather than in some hypothetical way, so there may well be a considerable shift of attitude towards the antagonistic end of the spectrum regarding Johnson, away from the 'lovable buffoon' persona.

Brexit was built on the story of British exceptionalism, a story of stiff upper lips and surviving/winning the war and Johnson his government and his useful idiots have been attempting to do the same now. Brexit is insignificant when compared to Corona, but there are indications of what we are likely to experience and clear evidence that we are better off working together rather than attempting to kid ourselves that we're better because we used to be "Great".

Then:


View: https://twitter.com/NadineDorries/status/1238536020825645061?s=20

Now:

Change course or a quarter of a million people will die in a "catastrophic epidemic" of coronavirus - warnings do not come much starker than that.
This realisation has happened only in the past few days.
However, it is long after other scientists and the World Health Organization had warned of the risks of not going all-out to stop the virus.

(BBC link)

 

[GM]

I'm a bit concerned. Our 2 sprogs are in Barcelona at the moment and due to fly home next Tuesday, they are panicking that they won't get locked in

I'm relieved that they managed to get on a flight yesterday evening and arrived home early this morning. We're going to be in self isolation now for a couple of weeks. In the end they were glad to get back, they said the place was like a ghost town are quite eerie.

 

[steveindenmark]

A few days ago the press were slating the Danish Government for being one of the first to close its borders. A few days later half the world has closed its borders. Every day we have politicians from each party, getting behind the government, all standing side by side, in unison. Questions from the press are met head on and nothing is side stepped. This is the plan and everyone in the country is on board with the plan.

To date two 80+ patients with other illnesses have died due to virus.

I was shocked to see that the British government seemed to have done nothing about this crisis when Denmark were taking rapid steps to contain it. I have just read that there have been 55 deaths in UK due to the virus.

That is truly shocking. Its negligent on the part of the government. Sadly I think it will get much worse over there.

 

[Electric_Andy]

We've just been told that today we will be sent home to work from home (I don't know how long for). My son still went to school this morning. My ex and her partner are self-isolating becasue her partner has a cough (but no other symptoms). Trouble is, he has a disease that means he's vulnerable, so I now have to have my son full time for at least 12 weeks. It should be fine, I just hope I can do all my work properly connected to external wifi at home rather than the hospital intranet. And I hope my son will not miss his mum too much

 

[Rocky]

I'm relieved that they managed to get on a flight yesterday evening and arrived home early this morning. We're going to be in self isolation now for a couple of weeks. In the end they were glad to get back, they said the place was like a ghost town are quite eerie.

I’m glad they are back, safely. My older son has been in Fiji for the last 2.5 years. I think he’ll wait it out before coming back. He’s got plenty of work and is quite isolated so hopefully should be ok.