Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

[PhilM]

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The scenes on these wards just sound horrific.
3 or 4 deaths a shift !
FFS it must be like a war zone.

Worse mate... tragically worse.

 

[zzr45]

I think it's more than likely because it's the weekend, we've seen the a same thing every week for it to then jump up on Monday, with it being bank holiday then expect Tuesday's or Wednesdays figures to be high again unfortunately

Obviously theyre already high but you know what I mean

Yeah there’s that bit of hope that we’ve had high figures the past few days based on ‘catch up’ numbers that the spike might not as be as bad this week as they’ve already been accounted for, but I wouldn’t be surprised by a four figure number early in the week.

 

[RAFUH]

I recall a virologist on BBC radio saying that if the virus mutates it is likely to become less lethal as a survival mechanism or something.

Mutation can go either way, but a mutation that leads to the host dying quickly doesn’t get a chance to spread.

If CV19 kept its long incubation and virus shed prior to symptoms, but increased its lethality, that would be very bad

 

[tsubaki]

Can't see what the point is of a contact tracing app that gives you an anonymous alert, tbh.

Imagine you work in a big civil service office, emergency services call-centre, hospital or factory producing food and you get an alert saying that someone you met on a day you were at work has Coronavirus symptoms; then imagine everyone else at work getting the same alert.

 

[PhilM]

Can't see what the point is of a contact tracing app that gives you an anonymous alert, tbh.

Imagine you work in a big civil service office, emergency services call-centre, hospital or factory producing food and you get an alert saying that someone you met on a day you were at work has Coronavirus symptoms; then imagine everyone else at work getting the same alert.

 

[BlueToff]

Dunno mate. Just always makes me suspicious. Just how my mind works. No real reasoning

FWIW I think there's plenty that's not right (other than 1000s dying) about this situation and how it has been handled mate.

I'm just not fully 'it was a bio-weapon' etc yet.

China lied. The WHO were useless. They got their act together, governments didn't heed the advice quickly enough. Some governments decided to go their own way (South Korea a success, gonna have to see how it plays out in Sweden but their deaths are rising).

How there wasn't a more collective response to this in January is beyond me but we are where we are now.

 

[BlueToff]

Yeah there’s that bit of hope that we’ve had high figures the past few days based on ‘catch up’ numbers that the spike might not as be as bad this week as they’ve already been accounted for, but I wouldn’t be surprised by a four figure number early in the week.

From the latest numbers that are available it still does look like at least the majority of the country could be in for a sustained period of flattening off over the next week. Which would keep us on course with most of the other European nations badly affected by this in terms of time to start seeing some results after a period of lockdown.

But yeh, I can see one or two days next week where the figures are a 1000 give or take.

 

[tsubaki]

Exactly, its a recipe for chaos. Noone would know who the alert related to or whether they are actually put at risk.

 

[JLW]

 

[Goat]

The whole world was prepared for a flu pandemic, nobody was prepared for Cov-19 tho, mainly due to it not being anything remotely like the Flu.

 

[Shevin Keedy]

I think the world is going to change in many ways as a result of this virus....

Would you be able to provide two or three examples please?

 

[Neiler]

Can't see what the point is of a contact tracing app that gives you an anonymous alert, tbh.

Imagine you work in a big civil service office, emergency services call-centre, hospital or factory producing food and you get an alert saying that someone you met on a day you were at work has Coronavirus symptoms; then imagine everyone else at work getting the same alert.

You get tested and self isolate not to infect anyone else surely mate?

 

[summerisle]

The whole world was prepared for a flu pandemic, nobody was prepared for Cov-19 tho, mainly due to it not being anything remotely like the Flu.

Well they should have been :

Why weren’t we ready?

A lethal pandemic was considered the most serious security risk to the UK. But nothing was done.

www.newstatesman.com

 

[coollino]

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The scenes on these wards just sound horrific.
3 or 4 deaths a shift !
FFS it must be like a war zone.

My friends gf works at a nurse, 21k, finished from a night shift and gets a call back 5 hours later asking if she can come back in.

 

[Tipp blue]

Doctors in Galway university hospital have developed a way to use 1 ventilator on 2 patients, basically doubling the amount of ventilators in the world instantly.