Coronavirus outbreak

[flake99please]

A little light hearted relief to a serious thread.

 

[greenmark]

I know dogs can’t get it

Think again...
https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong...oronavirus-pet-dog-belonging-covid-19-patient

 

[Fab Foodie]

Our megacorp now has implemented travel restrictions between its sites. A health form needs completing and signing-off 48hrs before travel. I’m also expecting my pan-european playboy lifestyle to be seriously curtailed by our customers implementing travel bans.

In other news, a frozen foods customer in Germany reports a significant spike in sales with supermarket shelves rapidly emptying of Pasta, Rice etc as people ‘stock-up’....

 

[Low Gear Guy]

Is it a good idea to close schools? The reality of the situation is that many working parents will deliver the kids to grandparents for a days childminding. The children can then share bugs with kids from other areas at the farm park etc.

 

[Julia9054]

Think again...
https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong...oronavirus-pet-dog-belonging-covid-19-patient

The dog is not infected. It has virus particles in it's nose and mouth because it has been licking it's owner. This is scaremongering

 

[Fab Foodie]

Is it a good idea to close schools? The reality of the situation is that many working parents will deliver the kids to grandparents for a days childminding. The children can then share bugs with kids from other areas at the farm park etc.

I agree. Better to keep to ‘normal’ patterns of behaviour. It then makes tracing and containment easier.

 

[Julia9054]

I agree. Better to keep to ‘normal’ patterns of behaviour. It then makes tracing and containment easier.

Yeah - and have them sneezing over me instead.

 

[Low Gear Guy]

I don't think teacher welfare is a high government priority.

 

[PaulSB]

I haven't been reading this thread but thought the following might be of interest.

My wife and I recently returned from Vietnam and Cambodia.

Our next door neighbour has a bad cough which developed in to a chest infection. My wife, retired medical professional, is concerned our neighbour may have pneumonia now. Our neighbour was ill before we went to Vietnam and Cambodia.

Yesterday she was refused a GP appointment on the basis she had contact with us. We returned 22 days ago, well beyond the isolation period.

Surely we should have been told to self-isolate especially if simple contact with healthy people is going to refuse others medical treatment?

Crackers.

 

[Duffy]

I would be quite upset at dying.

No you wouldn’t, you’d be dead

 

[Dave7]

Did you know there is a vaccine for TB?

Part of my treatment for bladder cancer was to have live TB virus pumped into my bladder via my john thomas. I had that done 8 times. It made me very very poorly for 3 days each time........but I am still here. I think

 

[Dave7]

What do people think about booking summer holidays?
I’m probably going to leave it late to book but I suspect anyone who hasn’t already booked will be doing the same, so what do you think, will costs go up or down?

We have already booked and paid for 2 weeks in Majorca PLUS insurance. I understand that even if Majorca was to declare an emergency situation then a) if the FO doesn't publicly agree then we cannot get our money back and b) even if the FO does declare it a no go area the insurance company or travel company are not automatically obliged.......you have to check the small print.
Its certain the once the virus is known about then insurance will not cover you.
For us its a wait and see situation. At worst we will kiss goodbye to £2K and take days out.

 

[Dave7]

Brexit and climate change certainly seem to be on the back burner for those media types.

I have said it before...... we never had Coronavirus until we left the EU......just sayin like

 

[fossyant]

We have already booked and paid for 2 weeks in Majorca PLUS insurance. I understand that even if Majorca was to declare an emergency situation then a) if the FO doesn't publicly agree then we cannot get our money back and b) even if the FO does declare it a no go area the insurance company or travel company are not automatically obliged.......you have to check the small print.
Its certain the once the virus is known about then insurance will not cover you.
For us its a wait and see situation. At worst we will kiss goodbye to £2K and take days out.

That's also assuming the airline is still operating.

 

[randynewmanscat]

Reddit, Zerohedge and Infowars where winning the war on clicks out of social media platforms at the start of the week until the tech giants belatedly put resource into clamping down on coronavirus FUD. They are giving free space to CDC and WHO but a look through the sub reddits for coronavirus tells me that the conspiracy minded are unabated thus far. The crap on YouTube is getting thinned out but it looks like a game of whackamole.
You might think that being armed with the right advice gives you the citizen enough marbles to make good choices, not if the people fomenting lies have anything to do with it.