Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

[LouReedwalkonthewildside]

"blame game can start once we are over the worse"

This isn't about a blame game. It's a national crisis. Party political differences are irrelevant. There's too many lives at stake. The answer is working together.

You would like to think this is already happening anyway between all parties, and if isn't happening considering what we're going through, then forming a coalition government etc wouldn't work.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

I am so tired of stupid people

How are asymptomatic people believed to spread the virus? Obviously they aren't coughing etc., as that would be a symptom, so is it spreading via their hands?

 

[Shevin Keedy]

Bear in mind though that the isolation measures will not be having much impact on the figures at all, as they only began nine days ago.

What? It feels as though it has been three months at least!

 

[The binman chronicles]

@Tipp blue this doesn't happen to be a picture of you by any chance?



No? How about this:

Oh sorry it can't be, as that man actually wants the people to not be grouped together...

 

[Tea_drinker]

Johnson is gonna hide for weeks now claiming to have 'mild symptoms '.

 

[john jako]

We had a company email sent out today confirming the death of a colleague at the weekend due to pneumonia. They say they don’t know if the persons death was caused by Covid-19.

Wonder how many deaths are missed from the death count as they are not calling them Covid-19 deaths.

By the way it is entirely possible it was just pneumonia however it makes you think.

 

[Joey66]

And all thanks to the hard work of @Joey66 and his long suffering wife

How can you stoop so low he looks in better health than you TBF

 

[catcherintherye]

Yeah but if it stabilizes around that figure it doesn't seem as bad as some other countries still bad but not as bad as it could be i was expecting a bigger increase and hoping for it to go down think it was as good as we could hope for at minute.

Today is a mixed day. Saw some reports quoting 660 in Britain today (570 England). It's a bit of a recovery after 2 awful days.

 

[Joey66]

Johnson is gonna hide for weeks now claiming to have 'mild symptoms '.

A clip was on before he has lost weight, and looked genuinely ill imo ......

 

[peteblue]

“Boris Johnson is preparing to overrule control-freak health chiefs today amid warnings 'time is running out' to scale up coronavirus testing.

Health Secretary Matt Hancock has finally signalled a U-turn on the screening regime, after weeks of insisting on all checks being carried out centrally.

Instead he has issued a plea for the wider science industry to boost capacity - with Sir Paul Nurse, chief executive of the Francis Crick Institute, saying the government must summon the Dunkirk spirit and let 'small ship' labs in universities, private companies and research institutes help out.

The previous approach was meant to ensure checks are conducted properly, but the 10,000 per day level achieved so far contrasts sharply with the decentralised tactics deployed successfully in countries like Germany, which is capable of up to 93,000 tests per day. The UK can currently only manage 12,000.”

 

[Tubey]

How are asymptomatic people believed to spread the virus? Obviously they aren't coughing etc., as that would be a symptom, so is it spreading via their hands?

Just by talking and breathing you emit respiratory secretions; an aerosol.

 

[Kenshin]

Because if someone dies who hasn't tested positive they can't be added to official figures. Maybe the figures coming out of those countries are only deaths from positive diagnosis. If there are not many diagnosed then deaths will be lower.

We are recording deaths with positive diagnosis rather than cause of death.

So a patient could die of anything but if the vorus is detected then it's being classed as a covid-19 death. Whether or not it was the cause.

Which given how mild the symptoms can be is not a true accurate measure of deaths. Even if the number would still be high irregardless.

For example Eddie large today. He was in hospital with heart failure and had a heart transplant 20 years ago. He got the virus in hospital and died , yet you wouldn't know if he would have lived or not anyway. There is no way of knowing if he would have recovered otherwise.

It's not necessarily a bad thing recording it like that , it's doing it by the book. After all the country are wanting to reduce the number of cases first and foremost.

 

[Tea_drinker]

A clip was on before he has lost weight, and looked genuinely ill imo ......

If he has mild symptoms get him on the tv to be questioned.

 

[aazak]

The senior US scientist battling the coronavirus pandemic has been given extra security, as he received threats after contradicting President Donald Trump's dubious interpretations and forecasts over the crisis.

The US Marshals service has confirmed that Anthony Fauci, the widely-respected expert who is the public face of the US government's response to the virus, was granted special security protection.

The 79-year old doctor, the country's foremost expert on infectious disease, has been attacked by conservatives after pushing back against Trump's assertions about the virus.

He disagreed publicly with Mr Trump's plan - now dropped - to ease quarantine restrictions by 14 April, and downplayed Mr Trump's promotion of antimalarial drugs hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine as reliable treatment for the virus.

Trump supporters have strongly attacked Dr Fauci online, accusing him of being an agent of the "deep state" trying to undermine the president.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

Just by talking and breathing you emit respiratory secretions; an aerosol.

But that's a guess isn't it? I was hoping for some actual evidence.