Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

[Barnfred 55]

Found out a colleague of mine has gotten it and been put in an induced coma. Really sound fella too. Grim.

That's awful mate. Must really bring it home when it happens to somebody you know well.

From a personal point of view is he somebody you've been in close contact with over the last few weeks?

 

[Billy Dean]

Wish him all the best. I was told by one of my team that her husbands friend is in an induced coma atm. Early 40s. Apparently they expect him to pull through but it must be excruciating for his family. Wouldn’t wish it on anyone.

Early 40s? Blimey. Hope he pulls through.

 

[DanEFC92]

That's awful mate. Must really bring it home when it happens to somebody you know well.

From a personal point of view is he somebody you've been in close contact with over the last few weeks?

Think 2 weeks ago? Recently got a wee promotion and haven't seen the old team as much. Just popping in for lunch.

 

[Barnfred 55]

Think 2 weeks ago? Recently got a wee promotion and haven't seen the old team as much. Just popping in for lunch.

Make sure you keep to the social distancing mate. Any one of your old team may have it too. Stay safe.

I know those of us stuck at home are all having a bit of a moan but we're the lucky one's really.

 

[PhilM]

Only 118 people died yesterday everyone - we're well past the curve - hurray!

You'd hope that is true, however I suspect it really isn't.

 

[Barnfred 55]

Wish him all the best. I was told by one of my team that her husbands friend is in an induced coma atm. Early 40s. Apparently they expect him to pull through but it must be excruciating for his family. Wouldn’t wish it on anyone.

Are they all put in an induced coma when they go on a ventilator.?

 

[Brennan]

717 deaths.

At least it hasn’t gone over 1000..

 

[peteblue]

Are they all put in an induced coma when they go on a ventilator.?

I believe so.....well I’m sure I read it somewhere.....

 

[Tipp blue]

Ireland wasn't actually one of the countries I had in mind who's government would be under pressure from this.

As a mater of interest, what is the Irish government ding to protect peoples' incomes and business's in general during the lockdown? What is that likely to cost them as regards outlay coupled with loss of income, and is their economy strong enough to sustain it.?

Everyone who has been let go from work is getting 350 per week, estimates say it will cost 5 billion every 3 months to maintain these payments, so it's doable certainly for 3 months possibly 6 months any longer and we could be in trouble. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.th...i-welfare-unemployment-5070540-Apr2020/?amp=1
For business there is access to money from Europe which will help short term.

 

[DanEFC92]

Make sure you keep to the social distancing mate. Any one of your old team may have it too. Stay safe.

I know those of us stuck at home are all having a bit of a moan but we're the lucky one's really.

Hopefully I'm alright. Work in a hospital so upto my gills in protective gear. Thanks for your concern.

 

[RAFUH]

I'm not downplaying anything mate.

I'm pointing out the presentation of it all. The misleading approach to it.

Do you not think there is a difference between having a virus and dying from it? You could drop dead with a heart attack tomorrow , yet if they found you had influenza in your system, would that be a flu death even if it played no part?

That's the point I'm making.

People ARE dying from the virus and even there is a chance healthy people are, no matter what the percentage is. That's why I'm one of the millions staying at home and doing as I'm told. I'm not questioning anything like that , I'm not even questioning the virus itself.

But I'm questioning the media, not the reality. Given that's how we all get our information, surely we can question it? I'd personally want to question what we are being told rather than simply sit like a zombie and accept everything on face value.

Doesn't change me sitting in the house when I'm not in work. Doesn't change me wearing gloves when I go shopping, social distancing , washing clothes after I've been out , washing hands and face when out etc.

Just because I want to question it , doesn't mean I'm the tit who thinks they know better.

I'm just thinking out loud in the one place I feel comfortable to put it , because in the real world, this isn't the type of conversation any of us want to be having.

How are media supposed to determine if a patient died from the virus? Bit out of their area of expertise. So should they talk to the physicians that are bit busy saving lives? Hack into personal medical records and they do what with information they can't interpret?

Healthcare are focused on saving lives right now. They will tag anyone COVID + as such because there will be a better accounting later. This will make it easier to find those patients.

 

[PSB1]

Are they all put in an induced coma when they go on a ventilator.?

They have to be. It's a deeply uncomfortable experience, to put it mildly.

 

[ClausThomsen]

The way the death figures are being handled are embarrassing. Couldn't organise a urine up in a brewery.

There seems to be no desire from the media to highlight just how many cases aren't being reported. My missus is a nurse in a care home and she has several residents fallen ill and 4 deaths in the last 7 days. No testing available but if push came to shove she would put a large bet on Covid-19 being the cause of death.

That's one care home. In this town alone I'd put a conservative guess of around 15 care homes at least in the area. Even if we say there are only half the Covid deaths that she suggests that's a very low estimate of 30 that aren't being recorded at the moment. And that's one town....

Add to that the amount of people who are having heart attacks due to the strain the body is under from Covid-19. I've not seen figures for the UK but there are reports coming from New York of a spike in cardiac arrests between 20th March & 5 April - up 400% on the same period last year. Those that die of cardiac arrest aren't counted as Covid-19 deaths either.

 

[RAFUH]

 

[COYBL25]

A lot of that is true and I hinted towards it myself in my post. But what I think you may be underestimating, and I sincerely hope I'm wide of the mark here, is the economic fall out from this. I think it could be very bad in some countries.

My missus is virtually unable to spend any money at the mo due to the lockdown.

Once it is lifted she’ll do her level best to spend it immediately- hair, nails, clothes and other assorted crap .

If you multiply this across the country, I’m sure there’ll be a massive bounce in certain sectors of the economy.