Coronavirus outbreak

[MichaelO]

Complete joke for the vast majority of the population. Where was the news scare-mongering as the hundreds of people die each winter from seasonal flu in the UK? Where was the self-quarantining then?! The elderly & those with pre-existing conditions should receive additional attention and advice (given the flu jabs they are eligible to receive each winter don't cover this strain). But for 90%+ of the population, this mass hysteria is ridiculous.

 

[fossyant]

I'm getting the flu jab next year - had two nasty illnesses (flu and that chest infection) working here in the space of 3 months (Oct-Dec). We were all keeping well clear of MIL as any chest infections/flu, puts her in hospital/potentially deadly.

 

[mjr]

Two Lincolnshire (not Spalding) primary schools shut down by fears. https://www.peterboroughtoday.co.uk/health/spalding-schools-close-over-coronavirus-fears-1891467

 

[Dave7]

Complete joke for the vast majority of the population. Where was the news scare-mongering as the hundreds of people die each winter from seasonal flu in the UK? Where was the self-quarantining then?! The elderly & those with pre-existing conditions should receive additional attention and advice (given the flu jabs they are eligible to receive each winter don't cover this strain). But for 90%+ of the population, this mass hysteria is ridiculous.

All well and good you saying that but answer me this............
If we didn't have this then what else could we moan about?

 

[fossyant]

All well and good you saying that but answer me this............
If we didn't have this then what else could we moan about?

The weather.


Er, oh we are !

 

[Dave7]

I'm getting the flu jab next year - had two nasty illnesses (flu and that chest infection) working here in the space of 3 months (Oct-Dec). We were all keeping well clear of MIL as any chest infections/flu, puts her in hospital/potentially deadly.

Over the years I have heard some good excuses for avoiding the MIL but have to congratulate you, that is the best.
But seriously, we take a herbal anti flu tab October through to March. I am seriously thinking of a jab for next year.

 

[fossyant]

Over the years I have heard some good excuses for avoiding the MIL but have to congratulate you, that is the best.
But seriously, we take a herbal anti flu tab October through to March. I am seriously thinking of a jab for next year.

I never usually catch anything, but the flu and coughing virus decimated my work place, and no-one was sent home. I was off a week with the flu as I couldn't get out of bed, then about 3 days with the cough - I dragged myself in as stuff needed doing.

Try and avoid MIL as we just get 'jobs', even now she is in a nursing home. Insists we water the plants and fill up the window bird feeder (despite her having staff that probably did it earlier in the day) - obsessed with watering potted plants. She'd have us doing the garden if she could.

 

[vickster]

Hopefully, everyone on here worrying about coronavirus has been to have an MMR jab to protect the vulnerable from those diseases - anyone over about the age of 35 is unlikely to have had any effective vaccination
And anyone who was a child when Wakefield was spreading his false data and wasn't vaccinated.

It's free to all. https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/vaccinations/mmr-vaccine-when-needed/

Warning - it's quite a painful injection (I had it a year or so ago when I went to Latin America)...but then again little children do cope

 

[Levo-Lon]

Unfortunately letting it run it's course will likely be far more devastating to the poor and the vulnerable.
The directive down here is that all visitors now have to use hand sanitiser when they arrive and if there is a case in the county the home will be shut to all but staff.

Hand sanitizer is out of stock already with many suppliers..
Hopefully stocks in house will last, we have enough I think..

Try buying at the shops, local Tesco is sold out..as are other high street shops

 

[Mugshot]

Hand sanitizer is out of stock already with many suppliers..
Hopefully stocks in house will last, we have enough I think..

Try buying at the shops, local Tesco is sold out..as are other high street shops

Aldi down here had a pallet of it in a couple of days ago, no idea if it's there now mind.

 

[Dave7]

Hand sanitizer is out of stock already with many suppliers..
Hopefully stocks in house will last, we have enough I think..

Try buying at the shops, local Tesco is sold out..as are other high street shops

When we were kids (ok 65 years ago) when we got blisters, segs or cuts on our hands we would just pee on them. Easier for the lads but it seemed to work for us.
Also...... ..as kids, if one lad in our street caught eg measles or chicken pox the parents would, literally, chuck us all in bed together. We all got it, we were all ill, then we all got better. Maybe something in that.

 

[Drago]

What, you pee'd on each others hands? Strange that the boys found it easier to do that to one another.

 

[Dave7]

What, you pee'd on each others hands? Strange that the boys found it easier to do that to one another.

That might have been fun but no, we peed on our own hands.

 

[Beebo]

The Ireland Italy match is called off for next weekend.

 

[MichaelO]

The Ireland Italy match is called off for next weekend.

And yet the Lyon v Juventus match tonight isn't. Thousands of fans travelling from North Italy into France...what could go wrong?!