Coronavirus outbreak

[marinyork]

That's an interesting article and yet another take on the situation that involves widespread testing and contact tracing. I don't really understand why UK testing is so restricted and can only speculate that there is lack of laboratory capacity or some other infrastructure reason.

12 PHE labs + contracted out. One the reasons that the media keep on taking UK 'average' numbers per day or quoting the total number to date is that it's extremely variable, sometimes the English bit of the UK does a lot of tests in a day, sometimes hardly any. It's clearly done in batches and a lot of driving around done.

The UK and Italy's testing is really weird. It started off about the same level and running parallel for a time. Then about ten days ago Italy started massively ramping it up. For how far behind Italy we are in virus progression, the UK was actually doing an all right number of tests in the early stages (and Italy pretty bad to be honest). This advantage has been wasted as it's not ramped up as it needs. If the stuff PHE had said was true we'd not be far behind Italy's testing regime until 3 days ago and places like London a week behind and testing regime for non-hotspots doing a lot better.

The BBC's Click edition on bbc news has a lot of stuff on testing this week.

 

[mjr]

Is it possible for bums to audibly breathe a sigh of relief?

That ain't a sigh!

It's disappointing to hear of older people abusing the privilege of early opening by continuing to panic buy so there's none of certain items left for younger people, especially families of key workers. I expect the shops doing daily early opening will soon make it not daily.

 

[Archie_tect]

At least the 'entrepreneur' market smallholder at Fox Valley won't be buying up all Aldi's fruit and veg then selling it as fresh farm produce at marked up prices...

 

[Stephenite]

The kids have been home for two weeks now! We took them out of school a few days before the shutdown as one had a cold and the other the runs, and we had the opportunity.

The 9 year-old is schooled about four hours each day, and that has gone really well. Working one to one I can see what he needs to improve on and what, for him, is fun and easy. The teachers send the work the night before and we complete that and sometimes a little extra. Socially, he has online gaming.

The four year-old (nearly five) has been harder to manage though. There isn't a lot of quality online material for her age group. She is a little behind in language development, says the kindergarten, and she was scheduled for extra help. Keeping her brain active has been a challenge, and she is definitely missing the social interaction of the kindergarten. The poor thing also has a birthday next week.

This week has gone OK, but next week I'm back in work so my partner will be schooling/looking after the kids as well as working from home. We will see how it goes. I may have be at home at least one day.

Take care folks...

 

[Mugshot]

View: https://imgur.com/xQnrkrQ


My sister last night

"fark Covid" was the title

View: https://twitter.com/JOE_co_uk/status/1241292212446486529?s=20

 

[Johnno260]

For NHS staff I found that.
The idiots who live streamed from the pub last night have all removed me from social media, while making threatening remarks after I called them out, I don’t care I would rather not associate with selfish 1/2 wits like that anyway.

 

[Johnno260]

The kids have been home for two weeks now! We took them out of school a few days before the shutdown as one had a cold and the other the runs, and we had the opportunity.

The 9 year-old is schooled about four hours each day, and that has gone really well. Working one to one I can see what he needs to improve on and what, for him, is fun and easy. The teachers send the work the night before and we complete that and sometimes a little extra. Socially, he has online gaming.

The four year-old (nearly five) has been harder to manage though. There isn't a lot of quality online material for her age group. She is a little behind in language development, says the kindergarten, and she was scheduled for extra help. Keeping her brain active has been a challenge, and she is definitely missing the social interaction of the kindergarten. The poor thing also has a birthday next week.

This week has gone OK, but next week I'm back in work so my partner will be schooling/looking after the kids as well as working from home. We will see how it goes. I may have be at home at least one day.

Take care folks...

some of these are useful for mine but eldest is younger have a look and see if they help.

 

[Unkraut]

Massive increase in number of infections here since yesterday (Baden-Württemberg nearly 1000 more now totalling over 3600) . I can see why they have imposed the clamp-down. At this rate of increase the healthcare system will reach maximum capacity in about 10 days' time. I hope it starts to slow down in the meantime, and that the existing measures and the new ones start to show some results as in South Korea, for example.

 

[Stephenite]

some of these are useful for mine but eldest is younger have a look and see if they help.

Thanks. I'll have a look later.

 

[CanucksTraveller]

It's futile asking British people to do anything isn't it, just driven through town and it's as rammed as any other Saturday, cafes and coffee shops heaving. I guess the NHS will inevitably be overwhelmed, and Boris's 12 week turnaround will turn out to be optimistic.

 

[Joey Shabadoo]

 

[Smudge]

I think many young people are not caring so much about this virus, as its mostly older people that will die from it. There's also the fact that many young people blame older people for the environmental state of the planet. They also blame them for having it easier financially when they were younger, certainly for house buying. And now that there is a large ageing population, its younger people having to pay for their care through taxes etc.
This, rightly or wrongly, has gone some way to create animosity in how many young people view older people. So there will be those young people that believe that this pandemic won't be dangerous to them, and they selfishly don't care that much about social distancing or the implications of ignoring it.
But young people have been dying from it, some even as young as in their 20's. But its a tiny number compared to older people. There's also the fact that they are not taking seriously the implications of society falling apart and how far this may go.

 

[marinyork]

For NHS staff I found that.
The idiots who live streamed from the pub last night have all removed me from social media, while making threatening remarks after I called them out, I don’t care I would rather not associate with selfish 1/2 wits like that anyway.

Browsing hours are a spectacularly misguided idea. I hope that is goes all right.

I'm a bit curious about Dave's idea because a lot of councils have loading bans in the early hours of Sunday morning which need temporarily lifting, if this is happening could just ask the government to extend 6 hour sunday trading restrictions to 7 hours.

 

[DCLane]

My wife, who's an NHS Dietitian, has been busy the past week helping produce a Covid-19 guide for the older person along with associated media: https://www.bda.uk.com/resource/covid-19-corona-virus-advice-for-the-general-public.html

She's been called more into front-line activity a she's specialised in the elderly and tube feeds along with mental health. Currently working across stroke / neurology / mental health and expects it to get busier. Unfortunately the new NHS shop-priority times of 8-9am Mon/Wed/Fri are useless as she's at work by 7am currently.

This morning we turned the guest room into a schoolroom for my 15yo. Classes have gone online from his school and he's expected to log in from 9am. I've also got work for him: we've got a smart trainer for the new temporary PE fitness suite (dining room) plus outdoor games activities (vegetable planting and chickens to get).

 

[marinyork]

My wife, who's an NHS Dietitian, has been busy the past week helping produce a Covid-19 guide for the older person along with associated media: https://www.bda.uk.com/resource/covid-19-corona-virus-advice-for-the-general-public.html


She's been called more into front-line activity a she's specialised in the elderly and tube feeds along with mental health. Currently working across stroke / neurology / mental health and expects it to get busier. Unfortunately the new NHS shop-priority times of 8-9am Mon/Wed/Fri are useless as she's at work by 7am currently.

5 seems regrettably quite optimistic and quite a challenge. Social prescribing isn't very advanced in this country and varies wildly by area. Signposting is not something these services excell at, partly because there isn't that much normally and the last week a lot of stuff has been pulled. New stuff is also going to be a challenge to communicate/find out about.