Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

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Yet another 44 000 tests not tested, and the Tories still dare talk about transparency. Common sense tells me they're not quite coming clean yet again with the great British public over 'testing'. No wonder Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland, Liverpool City Council and many others are taking the opposite stance to that of the UK government's 'opening up strategy'.
 
Could be, was something that came across my twitter feed a weeks or so ago but didn’t notice when it was orignally written. Tbh I’d always been a bit judgmental (why are they still doing chemo, isn’t it kinder to just rest at home?) and opened my eyes.
My dad had esophageal cancer
He got treated with Chemotherapy an drugs and went into remission .
Said it was hell on earth
He recovered enough to play pitch and putt and go for a few pints
It came back as liver cancer and he was told
6 months with treatment ,6 weeks without
He took the 6 weeks and got all his affairs in order
Had a fairly normal 4 weeks and then 3 weeks in hospital
Said the treatment was not worth the extra 4 months
 
I think there is a lot of digesting the information and trying to establish what is acceptable and what isn't within a workplace. Considerations as to how to distance effectively and limit risk to staff. It'll be a slow increase over the coming weeks I expect.
Our factory in Dublin never closed
Made a load of changes how we operate initially
However 7 weeks later changes still being made as things evolve and new ideas being put forward
They can well afford all the changes and costs but a lot of smaller less profitable factories in smaller plants will find it hard to operate in the new conditions
 
Just seen Grant Schapps on 6 0 clock news saying most Care Homes have remained Virus free.

Does anyone know if that is true?
 
Typically the RS bellends come out and blame everyone else but themselves when the finger is being pointed.
They wont be able suppress the documentary evidence when the inevitable inquiry over that fixture is had. UEFA will have a paper trail they'll use to mitigate their role in allowing it to go ahead: LFC giving them assurances it'd be safe to go ahead.
 
Just seen Grant Schapps on 6 0 clock news saying most Care Homes have remained Virus free.

Does anyone know if that is true?
It may well be true. it's true that where it does get into a care home it is fairly devastating, but it may be that it's only taken hold in a minority. However, there hasn't been widespread testing so I'm not exactly sure how he can say it with certainly.
 
My dad had esophageal cancer
He got treated with Chemotherapy an drugs and went into remission .
Said it was hell on earth
He recovered enough to play pitch and putt and go for a few pints
It came back as liver cancer and he was told
6 months with treatment ,6 weeks without
He took the 6 weeks and got all his affairs in order
Had a fairly normal 4 weeks and then 3 weeks in hospital
Said the treatment was not worth the extra 4 months
My old fella had kidney failure. Refused to go on dialysis until no choice but to go into hospital. A few weeks in there and must have decided he’d had enough. He was unconscious and they put him on dialysis, at some point he came around long enough to realise what was happening and proceeded to try to pull the needle out apparently. I was in the next day and a doctor was in the ward telling me that they would try again the next day. Now I’m a mild mannered chap and it wasn’t the obviously under pressure doctors fault but I just shouted can you not hear the man, he can’t breathe. We were ushered to a room and twenty minutes later told to expect the worst within 24 hours, which duly happened. Sometimes I think we put too much pressure on health professionals to keep things going when there is no hope and let’s be honest it’s usually for us rather than the patient.
 
It may well be true. it's true that where it does get into a care home it is fairly devastating, but it may be that it's only taken hold in a minority. However, there hasn't been widespread testing so I'm not exactly sure how he can say it with certainly.

Thats the wider issue. Its becoming clearer that there are infection hot spots. Care homes in a hot spot will more likely get an outbreak from someone bringing it in, or from a resident going shopping. And once in, not pretty.
 
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