Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

[peteblue]

Surprised America haven't tried to sue coronavirus itself tbf

If it had assets and deep pockets they would......

 

[LouReedwalkonthewildside]

Indeed. I assume he will be given another test to make certain.....

I've just read the piece again, he only needed to self - isolate for seven days mate according to the governments own guidelines. If a second member of a family got it then they have to self - isolate for 14 days.

 

[Nymzee]

Keep seeing people post this on IG and FB and it’s doing my head in. Based on absolutely nothing.

 

[LouReedwalkonthewildside]

don’t know how correct this graphic is but if only mild symptoms it’s only a few days isolation

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I've just been reading the piece about Boris again mate, what you have put up there looks about right going by what I read.

 

[BlueToff]

Are they needed yet hospitals around the country seem to be coping, in two weeks time it may be different they'll be up and running by then

Well this is what I'm saying.

If the government hadn't have taken a 'are they needed yet?' approach we'd have been in a better position in terms of being ready for it.

Mitigating measures would have been, in January - February, to be pumping as much money as possible into the NHS in terms of ventilators, beds, PPE for doctors and nurses, more temporary hospitals such as Nightingale to be there if needed.

We are taking all of the measures we are now taking in order to 'protect' the NHS - basically make sure it can manage the strain.

While these measures would have been needed anyway, we'd have had a much better chance of limiting just how long they were needed for if we'd have been ready in terms of the healthcare system. It wouldn't have stopped the strain but it would have eased it. And maybe we wouldn't be in the situation of thousands of jobs being lost and long-term economic damage which will just mean higher taxes and more austerity.

 

[peteblue]

don’t know how correct this graphic is but if only mild symptoms it’s only a few days isolation

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The chart says you are contagious for 14-21 days........

 

[ramacca]

Dunno ive already helped the boy with his electrical degree course work I aint doing English as well.

But ok, whom are we saving the tories from?

What?

 

[Neiler]

If you have shown symptoms, you do seven. Anyone in your household or who has come into direct contact with you must do 14 unless they start showing symptoms and then they do seven days from when they first started showing them.

There's a handy graphic that I can't find but it explains it. This is the UK's approach anyway.

Obviously if you get a bad dose of it and need the hopsital then you're gonna be out for more than seven days.

Some people seem to have it bad for 2-3 days if they get severe symptoms and then it takes them 2-3 days to recover.

Boris - if he had it at all - may have just had what the vast majority of people have if they get it and that's not even been ill enough to know you've had it unless your tested.

Didn’t the Royal family just do 7 isolation days as well.

 

[BlueToff]

Didn’t the Royal family just do 7 days as well.

I'm not sure mate.

As far as I'm aware if you're in the same household or have been in close contact with someone who has symptoms you should do 14 days (unless you get it on say, day 3, and then have 4 days of mild symptoms but are recovered by day 10).

Then again, I'm sure the Royals have access to tests.

Plus they're all lizards so i'm sure they'll be right.

 

[PSB1]

Hope your doing well heath wise these days pal.

Thanks. Do my best though Everton have caused me more problems than pneumonitis ever did!

 

[Goat]

What?

Nevermind mate.

 

[Toast]

Been through all this over 20 years ago.

Ventilated for around 5 weeks while being treated also for sepsis. Apparently the link of cause between pneumonia / pneumonitis and sepsis was recognised around 12 years ago.

My experience of ventilation etc was such that I would, seriously, far prefer to be dead than to go through it again.

I asked them to put me in a coma or just let me go mate.
This was in 2008.
Spanish hospital as well.
Its horrific and although I'm out of breath just going upstairs, it seems steady enough for me right now.. jinxed it obviously.

 

[BlueToff]

@LouReedwalkonthewildside this is the one I meant

 

[tsubaki]

I've just read the piece again, he only needed to self - isolate for seven days mate according to the governments own guidelines. If a second member of a family got it then they have to self - isolate for 14 days.

The confusion may have come from the 14 day for everyone thing being earlier government advice (which was changed between March 17th and 18th). It originally read:

• if you live alone and you have symptoms of coronavirus illness (COVID-19), however mild, stay at home for 7 days from when your symptoms started. (See ending isolation section below for more information)
• if you live with others and you or one of them have symptoms of coronavirus, then all household members must stay at home and not leave the house for 14 days. The 14-day period starts from the day when the first person in the house became ill
• it is likely that people living within a household will infect each other or be infected already. Staying at home for 14 days will greatly reduce the overall amount of infection the household could pass on to others in the community
• for anyone in the household who starts displaying symptoms, they need to stay at home for 7 days from when the symptoms appeared, regardless of what day they are on in the original 14 day isolation period. (See ending isolation section below for more information

 

[LouReedwalkonthewildside]

@LouReedwalkonthewildside this is the one I meant

Cheers Toff.