Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

[roydo]

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BOT tastic that.

Just saying.

 

[davmaher]

So ICU are freaked that too many folk need them, and A&E are freaked that not enough need them ???

Anyone with a brain would know why A&E has dropped.

You probably need to get on the phone to explain it to Raab, then.

 

[ForeverBlue92]

Four steps to getting out of Lockdown.....produced by former WHO guy.....but based on peaking this weekend...

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Something like that would be ideal like (maybe starting 1-2 weeks later though).

Even opening restaurants/bars but only for food and drinks on the tables not just alcohol that alone would keep numbers down until a few weeks before everywhere opens back up fully as normal.

 

[roydo]

Boris is 'improving' and 'sitting up in bed' talking to doctors says chancellor.

My opinion, for what its worth, is that he is in ICU (officially), cos of who he is, not cos of his condition now. That isnt a poke at the bloke, nor the system, just that if he "just" on oxygen support, they are just waiting for his lungs to deliver a saturation level on their own.

Unless they are concerned about sommet we havnt been told, that could be done at #10.

 

[roydo]

You probably need to get on the phone to explain it to Raab, then.

Why? Whats he said?

 

[LouReedwalkonthewildside]

My opinion, for what its worth, is that he is in ICU (officially), cos of who he is, not cos of his condition now. That isnt a poke at the bloke, nor the system, just that if he "just" on oxygen support, they are just waiting for his lungs to deliver a saturation level on their own.

Unless they are concerned about sommet we havnt been told, that could be done at #10.

My missus is a director in local government roydo, and this is exactly what she has been saying.

 

[Harryflashman]

Boris is 'improving' and 'sitting up in bed' talking to doctors says chancellor.

Glad he’s improving , those routine tests must have really took it out of him .

 

[davmaher]

Why? Whats he said?

It was a joke. You said anyone with a brain would understand why A&E admissions have fallen and I said you'll need to explain it to Raab then.

 

[Bungle]

Four steps to getting out of Lockdown.....produced by former WHO guy.....but based on peaking this weekend...

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[xena]

I'd say it's likely.

But that also means it's extremely likely the case rate is much higher and it's likely been around since December time.

Thats what i said earlier and if thats the case isn't their a mathematical way to work out how many would have had it .Think you'd be talking in the millions.

 

[LouReedwalkonthewildside]

I agree but international flights on June 1st is utter madness. I'd think that June 1st would be closer to when we start going back to work and not being in complete isolation.

The key in getting back to a someone normal life is testing. The US and UK aren't there. Not even close. And because of the lack of ability to find the lingering cases, trace them and their contacts, and isolate those people, there really can't be a return to total normality prior to a vaccine or we probably will have an outbreak again.

I would deffo agree with you there mate. Slowly, slowly catchee monkey and all that.

 

[riddick]

Boris is 'improving' and 'sitting up in bed' talking to doctors says chancellor.

Isn't the biggest red flag in all these cases that the person feels much better for a day or two before everything goes to hell?

 

[LouReedwalkonthewildside]

Isn't the biggest red flag in all these cases that the person feels much better for a day or two before everything goes to hell?

I could be wrong mate, but you can feel alright then 5 days or so later you can relapse.

 

[roydo]

Isn't the biggest red flag in all these cases that the person feels much better for a day or two before everything goes to hell?

A few days ago he was clapping the NHS outside #10. After being isolated for what, 10 days or so?

Then into ICU. Now on oxygen.

 

[Barnfred 55]

A colleague of mine reported Crosby and Formby beach as resembling ‘Copacabana’ this afternoon, so I wouldn’t bet on it.

I was at Maenporth beach near Falmouth on Saturday afternoon. It's a popular sandy beach that accommodates several hundred when busy. It was part of a 3 mile countryside.walk and we stopped for a rest there for 15 minutes to catch our breath as it's quite a hilly walk. While we were there the only other people we saw were a couple of old nutters having a swim in the sea and a lady walking her dog.

We were a bit surprised it was so quiet and wouldn't have stopped if it was busy.

So it isn't the same everywhere