Coronavirus outbreak

[MichaelW2]

The latest flare up in Hanoi has affected a British couple who caught the virus from a Vietnamese socialite who had been touring around Italy during Feb. She suffered a cough and mild fever but still chose to fly without telling the truth about where she had been or how she felt.
It is self important lying dimwits like this that makes fighting an outbreak of transmissible virus all but impossible.

 

[Pat "5mph"]

and Italians from other parts of Italy can leave the area.

Actually, no, they shouldn't, nobody should leave the infected areas.
Those who have left in spite of the ban (there obviously are no patrolled borders) are required to register on arrival to the non affected zones.
There is currently strong disapproval towards folks that have left the red zone.

Today in Rutherglen (South Lanarkshire), the local shopping centre was out of toilet paper, hand sanitizer has been unavailable since last week.
And yet, I have been sneezed at, coughed at, had a woman coming up to the counter with a runny nose, no attempt to stop themselves spreading whatever they have got ... meh!

 

[marinyork]

The quarantine is actually being extended to the entire country of Italy.

 

[Pat "5mph"]

The quarantine is actually being extended to the entire country of Italy.

Did you just read this @marinyork?
Where abouts?

 

[fossyant]

Whole of Italy - been on BBC News 107 Freeview

 

[glasgowcyclist]

Did you just read this @marinyork?
Where abouts?

Here https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-51810673

 

[Pat "5mph"]

Cheers @glasgowcyclist, I just found it on the Italian news.

 

[Blue Hills]

Other reports on the beeb suggest that the italian lockdown isn't exactly being rigorously policed. Not sure i understand how it can be, despite italy's several police forces.

Meanwhile in the states, things are surely going to get blackly farcical.
Trump making spectacularly less sense than usual.
And the basic failings of the us health system are surely going to be exposed to global alarm and mockery.

 

[roubaixtuesday]

I have a feeling it will burn out in a year then maybe disappear for a decade then break out again.

Thanks Milzy.

Your "feeling" is far more useful a guide than the opinions of epidemiologists, virologists, public health professionals, or the content of scientific journals.

Much appreciated.

 

[Beebo]

Other reports on the beeb suggest that the italian lockdown isn't exactly being rigorously policed. Not sure i understand how it can be, despite italy's several police forces.

Meanwhile in the states, things are surely going to get blackly farcical.
Trump making spectacularly less sense than usual.
And the basic failings of the us health system are surely going to be exposed to global alarm and mockery.

I agree. The US with no national health service is going to be exposed.
Where’s the testing and coordination going to come from. We don’t realise how good the NHS is, and it’s free. Hopefully this will scupper and talk of privatisation. How would a privatised health service manage this?

 

[stowie]

The quarantine is actually being extended to the entire country of Italy.

When you mentioned this earlier today, I thought it wouldn't possibly happen. Now it has. Wow.

I know this is the least of all concerns, but myself and my wife have said for over 10 years that we should visit Rome. We finally got around to booking the plane tickets last December. For mid-April.....

 

[roubaixtuesday]

I agree. The US with no national health service is going to be exposed.
Where’s the testing and coordination going to come from. We don’t realise how good the NHS is, and it’s free. Hopefully this will scupper and talk of privatisation. How would a privatised health service manage this?

Yeah. Thank fark we've got 40 new hospitals and £350 million a week to spaff on sorting this virus out. Cheers Bozza!

 

[stowie]

I agree. The US with no national health service is going to be exposed.
Where’s the testing and coordination going to come from. We don’t realise how good the NHS is, and it’s free. Hopefully this will scupper and talk of privatisation. How would a privatised health service manage this?

My brother (who is in the pharma industry) said that testing without medical insurance cost $800+. People without insurance are probably the people most likely not to be able to afford such costly tests. In a normal presidency, I would assume the US government would effectively nationalise the service by pumping $$$ into free testing. But Trump appears to have gone even more batshit crazy than normal and seems to be oscillating between it all being a fake news conspiracy theory and being paranoid that journalists are trying to infect him with it.

 

[Mugshot]

Has this been posted yet? It'll help anyone that's struggling with the hand washing stuff.

https://washyourlyrics.com/

 

[icowden]

But Trump appears to have gone even more batshit crazy than normal and seems to be oscillating between it all being a fake news conspiracy theory and being paranoid that journalists are trying to infect him with it.

The bad news that one of the higest risk groups for Covid19 is elderly men. The good news is that Trump is 73...