Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

[neil999]

Nothing will actually come of this will it, it’ll be confined to GOT vaults never to be opened again, by the end of next week.

People are just being paranoid.!

Surely this thread is high vaultage material

 

[Disgruntledgoat]

Kin ell. All the shops here are closed until monday and the schools until the 5th

 

[neil999]

Kin ell. All the shops here are closed until monday and the schools until the 5th

where are you?

 

[kenada_blue]

Nice read, also some of the links of health professionals in Wuhan and their experiences, a cationery tale of how people are easily led by their Governments, it's all about the evidence, well the various ways it's manipulated...

It's a great article through the waves of rubbish out there

 

[JimmyJeffers]

Mate works for one of the biggest employers in Edinburgh and they’ve shut their offices. Fuming here.

 

[Disgruntledgoat]

where are you?

Belgium. Where there aren't that many cases.

As I said last night, all public events are cancelled until the 5th and the pubs are closed from midnight tonight as well for the same period. I think our useless government is in full panic mode.

 

[neil999]

Belgium. Where there aren't that many cases.

hope you have stocked up on waffles

 

[Disgruntledgoat]

hope you have stocked up on waffles

Just been on a panic buying spree. Annoyingly I didn't have to fight anyone for bog roll.

 

[Archie Knox]

We've been told to work from home until minimum end of month, but it's hardly ideal as at work I use three monitors, have an adjustable desk and economical chair, keyboard, mouse, etc. Now I'm just holed up with my laptop on the kitchen table. Productivity will fall massively.

 

[Disgruntledgoat]

We've been told to work from home until minimum end of month, but it's hardly ideal as at work I use three monitors, have an adjustable desk and economical chair, keyboard, mouse, etc. Now I'm just holed up with my laptop on the kitchen table. Productivity will fall massively.

If they take our ability to efficiently make money for other people, what's left?!

 

[The binman chronicles]

https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong.../coronavirus-some-recovered-patients-may-have



Some patients who recovered from Covid-19 have suffered reduced lung function and now experience problems such as gasping for air when walking quickly, Hong Kong’s Hospital Authority has revealed.
The authority released its findings on Thursday after observing the first group of discharged coronavirus patients.
The city has so far recorded 131 confirmed cases of Covid-19, including three fatalities. Of them, 74 patients have been discharged while one probable case has also recovered.
Dr Owen Tsang Tak-yin, medical director of the authority’s Infectious Disease Centre at Princess Margaret Hospital in Kwai Chung, said doctors had already seen around a dozen discharged patients in follow-up appointments. Two to three were unable to do things as they had in the past.

“They gasp if they walk a bit more quickly,” Tsang told a media briefing on Thursday. “Some patients might have around a drop of 20 to 30 per cent in lung function [after recovery].”

Tsang, who also heads an authority task force on the clinical management of infection, said these patients would undergo tests to determine how much lung function they still had. Physiotherapy would also be arranged to strengthen their lungs.

A review of lung scans of nine infected patients at Princess Margaret found patterns similar to frosted glass in all of them, suggesting there was organ damage.

But Tsang said the long-term effect on recovered patients, such as whether they would develop pulmonary fibrosis, a condition where lung tissue hardened and the organ could not function properly, had yet to be ascertained.

Those who continue to believe this is only a flu, think again.

Anyone who has had a nasty virus will be able to confirm it can take months to feel better. At which point anything else you pick up is also going to be a strain. Another reason why I was shaking my head at people saying this was no big deal.

 

[peteblue]

“What the government should have been doing over these last weeks, which they’ve thrown away, is to encourage neighbourhoods, communities, supported by the local public health directors and a joined-up NHS. They should have been encouraging people to have their own family plans about how they will maintain the family show on the road, who will be taking the kids to school, how do you entertain them in the Easter holidays? They should have been much clearer, sooner, about making it clear that people shouldn’t be travelling so they could cancel their holidays and get their money back on the insurance. They haven’t done any of that. Who’s going to look after elderly people – stop them having to go out, do their shopping for them? People should have been doing that planning – they should have been pointed in that direction by the government. There’s been no discussion about that at all.” - Professor John Ashton, a former regional director of public health for north-west England.

All the chickens will come home to roost now: the cutting and underfunding of local authorities, the foisting of social care onto them; the failure to massively expand the NHS and fund it properly.


The politics you support will devastate this country now.

Would that be the RS supporting professor who does not want the PL shut down just yet ?........

 

[davek]

At this stage it's obvious that Johnson's plan has failed and his reliance on some group called SAGE to "expertly" advise him and his government to minimize social interaction (in stark contrast to the advice given to other governments and the policies they've enacted) has been folly that will cost lots of people their lives. Even their own ex health minister has comne to that conclusion.

 

[Archie Knox]

If they take our ability to efficiently make money for other people, what's left?!

He He

 

[davek]

Would that be the RS supporting professor who does not want the PL shut down just yet ?........

I dont care who he supports. And when did he say he didn't want the PL shut down?