Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

[Bruce Wayne]

Ring 111 and they'll probably send someone out when you consider you're wife had recently been on aircraft. They come out in a van and will test you both.

The worrying thing is that the people doing the tests aren't completely sure of what they're doing (many learning on the job), so there's worries about the process.

I hear they generally take the Steve Irwin approach and just stick things up your bum.

 

[PhilM]

I hear they generally take the Steve Irwin approach and just stick things up your bum.

Not according to a person I know who was tested on Friday.

They'd recently returned from the Far-East with many of the symptoms, but he wasn't complimentary of the process - well the thoroughness of it.

 

[larrygobfiend]

Apparently they’re waiting for the right time to pull the trigger on social distancing measures. I genuinely don’t get it. They’ve seen what’s happening in Italy and they’ve got a few weeks head start. What exactly are they waiting for?

 

[macker71165]

Really all this from a bat in wuhan market china ,!!!!!!

 

[Billy Dean]

Glad you are getting better. Hoping that I'm in that camp too. My wife went to Portugal at the weekend but seeing started feeling bad less than 3 days after she returned I can't see it being linked and Portugal was one of the least affected countries anyhow. Anything else (bar the utd game I went to 11 days ago) I would need someone close to have caught it - no sign of that so I should be good.

Thanks mate, hope you and your wife too. Yeah there are so many different bugs flying around at the moment it makes it even more worrying.

 

[Barnfred 55]

This thing by all accounts thrives on cooler temperatures rather than warm/hot ones. I don't think hot weather eradicates it completely, but it survives longer, both airborne and on surfaces, in colder weather making it more virulent

Given the geographical and logistical relationship with China, the 175 cases is remarkably low, and I wouldn't be surprised if the warm weather is partly to thank for this. If so, the warmer weather of the Northern Hemisphere's summer will hopefully help in fighting it over the next few months.

 

[Catfish Blues]

Apparently they’re waiting for the right time to pull the trigger on social distancing measures. I genuinely don’t get it. They’ve seen what’s happening in Italy and they’ve got a few weeks head start. What exactly are they waiting for?

This will sound utterly heartless, but they'll have modelled the likely growth in infections and will have a time in mind when that hits a threshold.

That threshold will take into account the fact that any action taken won't effect those recently infected but not yet displaying symptoms, so there'll be a delay in the effectiveness of the actions. There'll be taking into account the number of people thought to be infected and run some sort of risk analysis working out how likely social distancing will have an effect.

Plainly there's a risk involved there that their modelling might be wrong, but there's also a risk that, if the general population aren't sufficiently concerned, then they'll replace one type of social contact with another, and the net result will be minimable

For example, see the number of people at Cheltenham today and Anfield tonight, and, if it goes ahead in front of a crowd, the number of people at Goodison come Monday. At the moment, despite the fears voiced in this thread, people are a bit wary, but not anywhere near as concerned as they possibly should be.

Once the numbers start to rise, and there are confirmed cases in most cities, towns and villages, then the public will be more open to taking instructions on social distancing.

 

[peteblue]

I dont think the NHS buy theirs from Boots mate.

Tesco ?.....

 

[CrustySack]

Phoning 111 is probably the best bet. Don't go into a surgery!

I had flu the second week of January. Haven't been ill like that for years. It hit me like a ****ing train, fever, bed, aches and pains and it lingered, I got better thought it was all over then wham! got worse again it came back and I was coughing and sneezing again. It had ran through my family, including elderly relatives who had the flu shot. It's taken me some time to get back into the swing of things. Have had very little energy, getting back to the gym was a big effort, have lost weight etc.

As this has gone no I've half wondered if this could've been circulating undetected and I'd got an early dose. Chances are that it wasn't though so you may have what I had. I looked online and this years flu was quite a strong one. Certainly what I had was no fun. Hope you're feeling better soon.

I was laid up in bed at the end of January for 10 days. It started with a sore throat and lack of energy. It very quickly turned into a fever and aches and pains. Around about day 3 it hit my lungs and I was rough. The only reason I think it was seasonal flu is because my sinuses were blocked as well, like a head cold.

It has crossed my mind though. I haven't had the flu or a chest infection in well over 10 years and I'm a non-smoker.

 

[peteblue]

Really all this from a bat in wuhan market china ,!!!!!!

No mate, from a Chinese government laboratory in Wuhan.....

 

[peteblue]

I was laid up in bed at the end of January for 10 days. It started with a sore throat and lack of energy. It very quickly turned into a fever and aches and pains. Around about day 3 it hit my lungs and I was rough. The only reason I think it was seasonal flu is because my sinuses were blocked as well, like a head cold.

It has crossed my mind though.

You’ve had it mate.....

 

[Death]

@Death - can you confirm this is true ?

Bully? No, blocked artery.

11/01/2026

 

[Tin-Tin]

Glad somebody is showing signs of intelligence. They need to screen people coming in though

 

[CrustySack]

You’ve had it mate.....

What... as in if I get Covid19 then my lungs will not cope with another infection so soon? Damn (Runs to Tesco for bog roll)

 

[peteblue]

What... as in if I get Covid19 then my lungs will not cope with another infection so soon? Damn (Runs to Tesco for bog roll)

No, you’ve already had it and lived to tell the tale.....