Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!
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ForeverBlue92
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Saw something before that said when shops open back up people may only be aloud to shop alone.
Sadly I fear life is going to become very very boring for us all - no shops, bars, eating out, sports, concerts, holidays for a long long time.
Work and home going to be like living in North Korea.
Sadly I fear life is going to become very very boring for us all - no shops, bars, eating out, sports, concerts, holidays for a long long time.
Work and home going to be like living in North Korea.
It's this for a medium period of time or potential die pretty quickly and possible infect and cause the death of others.
Try to find a hobby that you can devote your time to.
No, there is no real scientific basis for the two metres spacing.
It is clear that the greater the distance between peoplethe lower the risk of passing on the infection.
However, the reality is that in a warm and calm environment virus particles generally could be coughed or sneezed for distances closer to nine or ten metres than two.
Also, in still air fine droplets can remain suspended for some time, allowing another person to pass through them and possibly become infected.
This would really mean that you would want spacing of, say, ten metres between people and hope they didn’t cough or sneeze so anyone else walked through their droplet spray.
The net result is that you would have a queue of one and a quarter miles just to allow 200 people into a supermarket, and you’d only want to walk around the shop an hour or so after the last person had done so.
For these impractical distancing and timing measures to be enforced would be difficult and it’s just easier to tell people to stay a couple of metres away and hope! Even then, lots of people don’t actually seem to know what two metres looks like, so they’d have no hope counting all the way to ten.
We’ve also got a sickly fat gimp with a bad haircut in charge
ForeverBlue92
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I honestly think this is going to go on for years mate - cant see a vaccine being sorted and given to 6 billion people in the space of 1-2 years.
I've seen a lot of advice where the distance is reduced from 2m to 1m particularly in Asia or Africa.
WHO talks about 1m greetings and the International Red Cross has issued a lot of advice where the distancing advice is 1m.
Personally the further I can be away from people the better.
I have tried to wade through this over the last 4 weeks, couple hours a day here and there but this Act, says to me this is a long haul, there are some disturbing provisions in this, such as the removal of children, prison sentences and movement restrictions.
I am a layman so may not have fully grasped it all and some of it looks far too complex for my brain to fully comprehend but even though there are calls for it to be regularly reviewed it seems this will be with us for some time.
Coronavirus Act 2020
An Act to make provision in connection with coronavirus; and for connected purposes.
But, and I may be wrong here, there hasn’t been a mass vaccination programme for SARS which the current coronavirus will likely require, because SARS didn’t spread as far or as fast.
So, without a successful mass immunisation against SARS and if the vaccines that were produced then required boosters because they didn’t produce a very long immune memory response, would they really be classed as “effective”?
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About time someone spoke out against the government's guidance for sending people back to care homes with coronavirus and advising they're 'isolated'. Seeing how vulnerable care home residents are, and the death toll of those over 60, they should have been treated in hospital from the off.
'Hospital patients with Covid-19 diagnosis should not be discharged into care homes'
Hospital patients should not be discharged into care or nursing homes if they have a Covid-19 diagnosis in order to protect “vulnerable” residents and staff, an expert said.
Carl Heneghan, professor of evidence-based medicine at the University of Oxford, said there is a need to think through the strategy to stabilise infections in nursing homes.
Discharging patients with confirmed Covid-19 into care settings and isolating them, as set out in Government guidance “just does not make any sense” clinically, he said.
He told the Science Media Centre he understands about a third of nursing homes have Covid-19 outbreaks.
Discharging hospital patients with Covid-19 into those without the virus “has got to be an utter no-no”, he said.
He added: “If that continues, we will have a problem if we transfer people from hospital in the home setting, there must be a line drawn to say these people have no active infection.”
'Hospital patients with Covid-19 diagnosis should not be discharged into care homes'
Hospital patients should not be discharged into care or nursing homes if they have a Covid-19 diagnosis in order to protect “vulnerable” residents and staff, an expert said.
Carl Heneghan, professor of evidence-based medicine at the University of Oxford, said there is a need to think through the strategy to stabilise infections in nursing homes.
Discharging patients with confirmed Covid-19 into care settings and isolating them, as set out in Government guidance “just does not make any sense” clinically, he said.
He told the Science Media Centre he understands about a third of nursing homes have Covid-19 outbreaks.
Discharging hospital patients with Covid-19 into those without the virus “has got to be an utter no-no”, he said.
He added: “If that continues, we will have a problem if we transfer people from hospital in the home setting, there must be a line drawn to say these people have no active infection.”
That’s true, but that “advice” is being given for practical and logistical reasons rather than because there is scientific evidence that says that you won’t transmit the virus from more than one or two metres away.
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