Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

[gonetomorrow]

And she wonders why shes on tablets for high cholesterol!

We're all on them, mate. I'm surprised they don't do them in different flavours.

 

[COYBL25]

I have no sympathy for him after reading this.

It wasn’t really a surprise when his wife left him, the only surprise was that it was for woman lol

 

[Goat]

Horrible this BBC yano.

Cant wait for it to go under.

 

[davek]

I suspect thats fake news David.

I dont think so. That logo and sign is defo going to go.

 

[bigjonny]

Christ I miss good old spuds cut up and fried on the gas ring in a dangerous chip pan
Beats them oven chips hand down

As we’re going off topic a bit , @Brisan123 , what do you call a chip shop ?. I’ve got a mate who lives in Castleknock , originally from Belfast, referred to “the chipper” when I was over last year.

 

[Goat]

 

[Armaghtoffee]

As we’re going off topic a bit , @Brisan123 , what do you call a chip shop ?. I’ve got a mate who lives in Castleknock , originally from Belfast, referred to “the chipper” when I was over last year.

Chippy in Armagh Jonny.

I‘be got the munchies now.

Actually got one tonight, social distancing much better there than in the local shops I must add.

 

[ForeverBlue92]

Social distancing

What social distancing?

Ole Big tits from next door is out with all the road having a sing along whilst her fella is making a racket as usual in the garden

 

[zzr45]

Some nob heads round here having a party. Called 101 and reported them.

 

[orly]

Tried to have a party here today and some weirdo must have called the police. Thankfully they joined in and saw the funny side. Obvs I didn't ffs

 

[Armaghtoffee]

Social distancing

What social distancing?

Ole Big tits from next door is out with all the road having a sing along whilst her fella is making a racket as usual in the garden

Pics or it isn’t happening.

 

[LinekersLegs]

Part of that article was mentioned in the report on the BBC site earlier in the week relating the French discovering it in the blood of a pneumonia patient on Dec 27th.

It`s looking more and more likely that it`s been us for a lot longer than originally thought.

Just thinking out loud, in view of this, could this be the second wave we are now experiencing ?

Find when/how it came to Europe/US a really interesting question as you might have guessed as I keep on reposting anything I read about it lol

Presume we’re only really going to know with decent antibody tests.

There are three things that make me question whether we’ve had a 1st wave.
1) Where-ever they were happening (home/hospital/facility) or what they were mis-categorized as (pneumonia/old age/flu) with a widespread 1st wave we should have seen an observable spike in overall deaths that just doesn’t seem to be there in either December or January figures.
2) Seen several doctors comment on weird things about this disease in how it presents medically for the bad cases that they reported as quite distinctive even without PCR tests. Perhaps at a low level a few of those cases would have been overlooked but many patients with those oddities (especially in medical workers/the young) would presumably have raised some flags.
3) Even in the bad outbreak areas the antibody test results are only coming out at ~20% of random populations exposed and from this article https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/07/health/coronavirus-antibody-prevalence.html even those who had valid reasons to think they had it, didn’t “The majority of these people — 62 percent — did not seem to have antibodies. Some of them may have been tested too soon after their illness for antibodies to be detectable. But many probably mistook influenza, another viral infection or even allergies for Covid-19,”

At the least would be nice to know if there is a specific influenza strain that is pretty hard to tell apart in mild cases from covid mild symptoms so it could be included in this years flu jab.

 

[Catfish Blues]

Before that we were mainly testing hospital patients ...

To be honest, that's the bit of the graphs I look at.

Obviously there's a lag from infection to admission of, on average, about 10 days, so it won't show the effect of peoples habits changing for that length of time, but, while the trend is down ( which it is, all be it slowly , see the blue bars in the 2nd slide below ... they're yesterdays slides, I havn't seen todays ), I'm as comfortable with the situation as you can be under the, pretty horrible circumstances.

 

[LinekersLegs]

 

[YoboCopter]

All sorts of street partys tonite! Police called out to my road

Everyones celebrating the freedom to come on sunday

Strange times we live in