Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

[BlueToff]

COVID-19: Managing the COVID-19 pandemic in care homes | British Geriatrics Society

The COVID-19 pandemic raises particular challenges for care home residents, their families and the staff that look after them. This guidance has been developed to help care home staff and NHS staff who work with them to support residents through the pandemic.

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Do wonder if some of this advice will be looked at in the aftermath. Advising care workers to essentially perform a triage role is interesting to say the least, but the underlying thing there is the recommendation to assess whether going to hospital would actually be more detrimental.

The amount of people who will have contracted this thing in hospital shouldn't be underestimated.

My dad's cousin (he's 69) went into hospital weekend before last due to pancreatitis. Unfortunately he's contracted COVID-19 while in there (well, by process of elimination as he hadn't left his house it has to have been that, you'd think) and is now on a ventilator. Obviously doesn't look good for him.

 

[zzr45]

The amount of people who will have contracted this thing in hospital shouldn't be underestimated.

My dad's cousin (he's 69) went into hospital weekend before last due to pancreatitis. Unfortunately he's contracted COVID-19 while in there (well, by process of elimination as he hadn't left his house it has to have been that, you'd think) and is now on a ventilator. Obviously doesn't look good for him.

Fingers crossed for him.

but yes, would be an interesting review.

 

[BlueToff]

Fingers crossed for him.

but yes, would be an interesting review.

Yeh. Sad stuff but is what it is.

 

[NilSatisOptimum]

Eh?

Happy clappy like bait for the Tory libertarian crowd where we all born equal and we all have a reset button its just a matter of personal/individual choice, don't you know, blah blah blah. Just like the lack of PPE will have no bearing on COVID19 hospital aquired infections , as the Government will look to proportion blame everywhere else...

 

[peteblue]

The kip of this

It’s right though. It’s bad enough being stuck in the house, having constant negativity thrown at you doesn’t help. If they can’t say or do anything to improve the situation I’d rather they stayed quiet.

If the same people had been reporting on WW2 we would all be speaking German......

 

[NilSatisOptimum]

It’s right though. It’s bad enough being stuck in the house, having constant negativity thrown at you doesn’t help. If they can’t say or do anything to improve the situation I’d rather they stayed quiet.

If the same people had been reporting on WW2 we would all be speaking German......

The mood of my nation is in spite of this shambolic Government, what i do as key-worker is nothing to with that blond pillock of a liar they call Boris Johnson i will not have him degrading my efforts with his opportunist gags.

 

[Neiler]

if you don’t go out you probably don’t need one .

In all seriousness you can also get them online. Also I’m presuming you either shop online or someone you know does your shopping that or you’d seriously stocked Up for this pandemic so I’d imagine you can get some if you need to .

I’d be very close to someone high up in the retail sector, as in very high up in senior management internationally. All the big retail outlets have set up PPE teams and been in contact with manufactures about producing their own PPE for the public, I suspect we will see the likes of washable cotton masks and the like freely available on the high street and in almost all retail not long on after restrictions are lifted.

I have no doubt mask fashion is going to be a thing.

 

[LouReedwalkonthewildside]

The mood of my nation is in spite of this shambolic Government, what i do as key-worker is nothing to with that blond pillock of a liar they call Boris Johnson i will not have him degrading my efforts with his opportunist gags.

Going by a lot of your posts in this thread you really are one angry person mate, now you may have good reason too be, but it's not good for your health.

 

[LocalNative]

It’s right though. It’s bad enough being stuck in the house, having constant negativity thrown at you doesn’t help. If they can’t say or do anything to improve the situation I’d rather they stayed quiet.

If the same people had been reporting on WW2 we would all be speaking German......

So we shouldn't be holding them to account for their shortcomings and lack of prep for a pandemic? For how slow they were to lock the country down despite warnings months in advance?

I'd rather see those responsible be questioned why rather than sugarcoating over false positives. The governments of Germany, South Korea and New Zealand amongst others are getting rightful praise for their good work. We've been sleepwalking our way through this virus.

 

[Tea_drinker]

Just watched panorama. Johnson and chums lied all the way through brexit and they're lying all the way through this too. Shameless.

 

[peteblue]

The mood of my nation is in spite of this shambolic Government, what i do as key-worker is nothing to with that blond pillock of a liar they call Boris Johnson i will not have him degrading my efforts with his opportunist gags.

Please take this in the spirit meant, but you sound a bit stressed mate. Forget about Johnson and all the other lying politicians, just ignore it all, look at something that makes you happy......

 

[COYBL25]

I’d be very close to someone high up in the retail sector, as in very high up in senior management internationally. All the big retail outlets have set up PPE teams and been in contact with manufactures about producing their own PPE for the public, I suspect we will see the likes of washable cotton masks and the like freely available on the high street and in almost all retail not long on after restrictions are lifted.

I have no doubt it’ll mask fashion is going to be a thing.

If they can produce gold D&G masks mate, the Scouse girls will wear them with pride.

They’ll have to make special edition ones though, as they’ll need extra space for their duck lips.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

If they can produce gold D&G masks mate, the Scouse girls will wear them with pride.

They’ll have to make special edition ones tough, as they’ll need extra space for their duck lips.

I was thinking a bit about masks earlier, as I suffer a bit from hayfever. Ordinarily I'd have some tissues in my pocket, and sneeze into those, but in our mask world, would I be expected to sneeze into a mask, and not then remove it until I get home, by which point there could be a few sneezes worth of snot and dribble accumulated and pressed against my face?

 

[Neiler]

If they can produce gold D&G masks mate, the Scouse girls will wear them with pride.

They’ll have to make special edition ones though, as they’ll need extra space for their duck lips.

It’s honestly going to be a “socially conscious” fashion statement.

“Like OMG, your’e soooo not wearing a facial covering, cringe!”

Be a whole herd on insta, FB and Snap C, selfieing the lives out themselves and their masks! #covidlife

We know this to be true!

 

[peteblue]

I was thinking a bit about masks earlier, as I suffer a bit from hayfever. Ordinarily I'd have some tissues in my pocket, and sneeze into those, but in our mask world, would I be expected to sneeze into a mask, and not then remove it until I get home, by which point there could be a few sneezes worth of snot and dribble accumulated and pressed against my face?

I’ve been suffering a lot from hay fever or coronavirus, one or the other, so sneezing as you say. It would be like wearing a jelly fish......