Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

[Barnfred 55]

I expect Ryanair to provide you with a mandatory face mask for the bargain price of £79.99.

And then charge you for excess luggagelol

 

[jamieni]

I've no doubt there will be a lot of PTSD or similar problems from many health workers, not just from patient deaths but from losing colleagues too. But following on from that, mental health across the country is going to be a big problem, from dealing with grief to the effects of the shut down, people losing jobs, financial concerns. The list goes on.

We're only at the start of this and we're already starting to see some of the economic fallout. I reckon millions in this country will lose their jobs by the time a vaccine brings an end to this.

We’re running a survey in work atm to see how badly staff’s mental health is being affected by the situation. I expect a lot of my colleagues are experiencing mental health issues and we are not on the front line.

 

[ramacca]

Yikes, let's hope it is hypothetical, and none went into use!

Coronavirus: Hundreds of ventilators UK bought from China 'are wrong type and could kill patients if used'

"We believe that if used, significant patient harm, including death, is likely," the letter from senior doctors says.

news.sky.com

Matt Hancock set up the NHS Supply Chain Co-ordination Ltd to procure medical supplies and equipment for the NHS. An abysmal failure on his part.
Welcome to the new post Brexit trade deals - so much for upping regulatory checks on goods coming into the UK.

 

[The Penalty Box Dancer]

We’re running a survey in work atm to see how badly staff’s mental health is being affected by the situation. I expect a lot of my colleagues are experiencing mental health issues and we are not on the front line.

Working from home is affecting people as well. The social interaction, the times you need help with something, being able to ask someone a question who sits behind you. If the new normal is working from home I don't think it'll work long term. Suicide rates will be rising.

 

[Barnfred 55]

Forgot to include this one.



"even if only suspected"

Suspected - surely the tendency is to suspect it, and the comparisons elsewhere - is it common for death to be attributed to Coronavirus on a suspicion without testing?

I've said previously in here mate that, for deaths in the community and care homes, where no CV19 test has been carried out, GPs are instructed to include CV19 on the death certificate where the deceased showed symptoms of the disease.

So if anything we were overestimating figures rather than underestimating.

 

[Tubey]

Can you guess who is the normal sized human, and which is me?

Fella on left has taken all the PEDs.

 

[Jebus_lives]

Can you guess who is the normal sized human, and which is me?

Both of you seem pretty big to me, you're about two thirds the size of that mountain!

Either or that mountain is really small..

 

[Nymzee]

Can you guess who is the normal sized human, and which is me?

Tall is normal don't let the dwarves tell you anything different.

 

[Barnfred 55]

I once had a fear of bats after I fell down a well as a child and my screams awoke all of the bats sleeping in that dark, dank place, but I learned to overcome this fear. I suggest you do the same.

Are you Robert Langton?

 

[Nymzee]

Are you Robert Langton?

Reckon he's Batman myself.

 

[Jebus_lives]

Are you Robert Langton?

I've got a hunch...I might be wrong...but I reckon he's Batman

 

[malfosse]

@COYBL25 is into tranvstites ATM ......a hospital should not need a description about social distancing the care firm where in shock on what they were asking ......they rebuked anything the hospital wanted - quite rightly ......

I really hope that ATM stands for At The Minute and not the other thing.

 

[Harryflashman]

Airlines are possibly the worst business to be in atm, how on earth do they recover?

No lifting of lockdown will get passengers back on planes, social distancing could be here a long time.

Hopefully the American pharma giant Gilead or the GlaxoSmithKline backed Oxford group will meet their most optimistic target and everything goes perfectly and we do get a vaccine in mass production by the end of the year. This is super optimistic though although early results are encouraging (only on animals so far for the Oxford research team).

Even if this rosy scenario happens, airlines won't get back to normal for a year to 18 months. There will be huge job losses, that's inevitable if noone is using them.

What I don’t really get are these reports of keeping middle free and the like ..obviously isn’t the air just recycled ,which is why you can’t have peanuts when someone on the flight has an allergy. Feels a bit of a wasted exercise when you consider it

 

[Barnfred 55]

Black African Brits face 'triple' virus death rate.

Coronavirus patients from black African backgrounds in England and Wales are dying at more than triple the rate of white Britons, a study suggests.

The Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) said a higher proportion of people from ethnic minority backgrounds live in areas hit harder by Covid-19.

However, they tend to be younger on average, so should be less vulnerable.

But the report found various black, Asian and minority ethnic groups were experiencing higher per capita deaths.

Personally I believe this could very easily be explained by socio-economic reasons. It could of course be genetic so I wouldn't discount this.

 

[Jebus_lives]

I really hope that ATM stands for At The Minute and not the other thing.

Automated Teller Machine?