Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

[roydo]

Nailsea Tesco has 84 packets of own brand lasagne sheets in stock.
£1.20 A packet.
At 10pm tonight another delivery of 18 packs..

Not on the shelves!

 

[Spadge Vernacular]

I think this has been a trend anyways but this will just dramatically accelerate things. Can see several organisations using the same office space on different days of the week. I also imagine that housing in rural areas will become more sought after with people needing to commute less.
You would think that disused office space could be altered to be used for housing.
My work has said for years it’s impossible to work from home, then this happens and we’re all suddenly able to do so.

Cheeky swines aren't they. Like me it looks very much like you are hard it mate

 

[Brisan123]

lmao Good argument you bumnut.

It wont be long now ,the meltdown is approaching fast

 

[jamieni]

Professor on Sky News this morning reckons deaths are nearer 40,000 taking into account nursing homes and other institutions

Financial Times estimate about 40k as well

 

[Brisan123]

Can you?

You probably can but you would have to get to Dubai first lol

 

[NilSatisOptimum]

France LIMITS sale of nicotine substitutes to avoid stockpiling

The government said that until May 11, when the country's lockdown is phased out, pharmacies would only be able to sell a maximum of one month's worth of products treating nicotine dependence.

www.dailymail.co.uk

Talking of the most vulnerable... Been working with a person who suffers Schizophrenia, anyway for some years, the heavy smoking has been an increasing physical health issue. So, finally they had taken note of gental information of the health benefits of giving up. Tuesday I went to collect final two weeks of nicotine patches, the pharmacy ceased the program and no patches nothing, no explanation. Now I know....

 

[Brisan123]

The raab gibbon now boasts of building 7 hospitals. Erected 7 empty marquees more like. They really do think those who voted for them are idiots.

Well to be a fair, a fair proportion of those who voted for them are idiots

 

[Bruce Wayne]

Financial Times estimate about 40k as well

 

[tsubaki]

I hit up the Sky News website there five minutes ago and top headline was "Meghan Court Case: Newspaper Publisher Manipulated Duchess's Father" - How the F did we get here as a society.

TBF “newspapers manipulating people” is a good chunk of how we got here as a society

 

[navidson]

Can't get my head around the daily numbers at all

 

[LinekersLegs]

The Food and Drug Administration on Friday cautioned against the use of hydroxychloroquine, a malaria drug originally approved in 1955, to treat Covid-19 outside of the hospital or in the setting of a clinical trial. The drug has been repeatedly touted by President Trump as a potential treatment.

In a drug safety communication meant for health care providers, the FDA said it is “aware of reports of serious heart rhythm problems” in patients with Covid-19 treated with hydroxychloroquine or an older drug, chloroquine. The agency said it seeks to “remind health care professionals and patients of the known risks associated with both hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine.”

“We understand that health care professionals are looking for every possible treatment option for their patients and we want to ensure we’re providing them with the appropriate information needed for them to make the best medical decisions,” FDA Commissioner Stephen Hahn said in a statement. He said that the FDA encourages health care professionals to “closely screen and monitor” those patients who doctors decide to give the drugs to mitigate potential risks.

 

[tsubaki]

The Food and Drug Administration on Friday cautioned against the use of hydroxychloroquine, a malaria drug originally approved in 1955, to treat Covid-19 outside of the hospital or in the setting of a clinical trial. The drug has been repeatedly touted by President Trump as a potential treatment.

In a drug safety communication meant for health care providers, the FDA said it is “aware of reports of serious heart rhythm problems” in patients with Covid-19 treated with hydroxychloroquine or an older drug, chloroquine. The agency said it seeks to “remind health care professionals and patients of the known risks associated with both hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine.”

“We understand that health care professionals are looking for every possible treatment option for their patients and we want to ensure we’re providing them with the appropriate information needed for them to make the best medical decisions,” FDA Commissioner Stephen Hahn said in a statement. He said that the FDA encourages health care professionals to “closely screen and monitor” those patients who doctors decide to give the drugs to mitigate potential risks.

a shame there wasn’t a PS at the end “oh, and drinking bleach can fk off an all”

 

[Brisan123]

I shall be opening a bottle of Pedigree in about 5 minutes......

I doubt we'll see anything opening in the next few months.

I had a rather more ADULT jokey response in mind but I deemed it not the time or the place

 

[Brisan123]

I share the sentiment of where you are coming from.

Except flu deaths in the UK are much lower than you would think. Sure it fluctuates every year but apparantly tjere was only 600 deaths last year attributed to complication with flu.

Now smoking related illness , that kills far more every year than covid-19 will be attributed to. That's your elephant in the room , noone cares about that yet it's that which is the biggest killer.

you have a choice to smoke
Covid gives you no such choice

 

[peteblue]

That concept is concerning given the universality of life. In short one day we will all be in the "vulnerable" group. What unsettles me is the narrative around the general population - because we are them and only care for ourselves, while the worse case scenario we can imagine and are afraid of in our communities is happening in care homes. Yet we are all complicit in ignoring it and discussing what is relative in our lives and when the pubs and shops are going to open, either purposely or subconsciously.

Its horrific what is happening to older people and it should be the head line figure all day every day, it should be cause for protests and unbearable political pressure to be applied. Yet somehow we have tolerance toward "ah sure its really hard to get the information" so wel' just talk about the general population and we let the those reporting the massive inaccuracies continue to ignore the plight and mislead the narrative continuously unabated.

Its the shame of our times and i think in time this will show, if you want to see the real worth of a society, you should always look how they treat the most vulnerable.

The shame of care homes is not that people are dying, they do that all the time, it’s that families do not look after their parents or grandparents while at home, alive. Care homes are used by some, not all, as an easy way to relinquish responsibility for the care of their family.....