Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

[malfosse]

As far as I'm concerned, you always are mate. Bit of hot stuff you are

Love you too mate.
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[malfosse]

Hope you start to feel better soon mate, take it easy and rest up as much as you can.

Thanks mate.
Mrs M has been an Angel.

 

[peteblue]

This is day three of quarantine for me, I've had the shivers, banging headache, fatigue and the pains in my legs have been horrendous. I've been warm to the touch but no fever and I have a new cough but it isn't continuous. In short I've no idea what it is.

hmmmm......

 

[NilSatisOptimum]

Im sure they all live in London and can easily get to the testing centre.

They can all jump on a train, oh hang on waggy fingers about social distancing, they can wear face masks, oh hang on there aren't any...

 

[malfosse]

hmmmm......

What I mean is, it could just be a seasonal virus, I have none of the official symptoms (such as fever or persistent cough) of the Coronavirus.

 

[Paris]

They are already doing that in China.

I know Shenzhen banned cats and dogs and I'm sure I read they are banning all of it in the near future hopefully.

They did after the Sars outbreak.

Those rules were then 'loosened' e. g. effectively scraped.

 

[roydo]

What I mean is, it could just be a seasonal virus, I have none of the official symptoms (such as fever or persistent cough) of the Coronavirus.

I am the same mate. No CV symptoms at all, but a throat that seems to be fine one minute, then a bit crap, then fine again.

 

[peteblue]

What I mean is, it could just be a seasonal virus, I have none of the official symptoms (such as fever or persistent cough) of the Coronavirus.

Just get well, whatever it is.....

 

[LinekersLegs]

 

[NilSatisOptimum]

Why aren't NHS staff going to these testing centres is the first question I would ask. Every NHS worker sitting at home, either because they have symptoms or a family member does, should be going to one of these centres in London to be tested. Every hospital/trust should have a list of staff who are self isolating. How hard is it to pick up the phone to them and say get your arse down to xxx and get tested. Presumably there are so many testers at each location and it takes so long to take each test. You can then have a central diary booking system that you can access so people turn up in an organised manner rather than all at once. Anybody who doesn't have access to a car, which is commonplace in London, should take a taxi. If 1 in 4 health workers are off sick as has been indicated, there must be thousands waiting to be tested.

There's been hundreds of thousands of volunteers to help out with the crisis. Use some of these people to carry out the task if the existing NHS clerical staff are already under the cosh.

I really think this can only be a communications and organisational glitch, because now they have the testing capacity and have set up the testing centres, the rest should be a 'kin formality.

Just noticed the Rona and realised what you meant.

They don't know for certain that they have the Rona, or that the person in their household who is ill does. That's the whole idea of them getting tested, to find out if they can go back to work.

I can assure if any health worker or social care worker followed your advice they would loose their job. If they were found to be out and about after declaring self isolating with COVID19 symptoms. Very likely in prison if they were found to be infected and had inadvertently passed it on while wombling down to test centres...

 

[Toast]

What I mean is, it could just be a seasonal virus, I have none of the official symptoms (such as fever or persistent cough) of the Coronavirus.

Hope it passes mate.

 

[Wayno]

I can take working from home but I desperately need my missus to go back before I tie her up and stick her in the loft

 

[Harryflashman]

I can take working from home but I desperately need my missus to go back before I tie her up and stick her in the loft

because She’s getting on your nerves or be because that’s your standard Wednesday evening ?

 

[Anders_Limpar]

Why aren't NHS staff going to these testing centres is the first question I would ask. Every NHS worker sitting at home, either because they have symptoms or a family member does, should be going to one of these centres in London to be tested. Every hospital/trust should have a list of staff who are self isolating. How hard is it to pick up the phone to them and say get your arse down to xxx and get tested. Presumably there are so many testers at each location and it takes so long to take each test. You can then have a central diary booking system that you can access so people turn up in an organised manner rather than all at once. Anybody who doesn't have access to a car, which is commonplace in London, should take a taxi. If 1 in 4 health workers are off sick as has been indicated, there must be thousands waiting to be tested.

There's been hundreds of thousands of volunteers to help out with the crisis. Use some of these people to carry out the task if the existing NHS clerical staff are already under the cosh.

I really think this can only be a communications and organisational glitch, because now they have the testing capacity and have set up the testing centres, the rest should be a 'kin formality.

This has been mentioned a few times - but it seems that up until today the government had a limit of max 15% of tests to go to NHS workers.



Clearly the fundamental issue is the number of tests they can administer in a day. It needs to be way, way higher.

The logistics of it need to be sorted as well - I'm not sure the idea of getting potential carriers to shoot around in Taxis all day is probably the wisest.

 

[Kenshin]

They did after the Sars outbreak.

Those rules were then 'loosened' e. g. effectively scraped.

Fair enough.

I can forsee a united nations intervention then in the coming months