Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

[Hickson9]

My mum has Chronic Kidney Disease, so I’m definitely telling her to stay isolating.

My Mum is in Stage 4, filtration rate down to 14. So I'm very concerned about her in the short to medium term as well with regards to picking up this virus.

I've just found out recently I am in stage 1 (it is an inherited form), but that doesn't present any extra risk to me at this point thankfully.

 

[Billy Dean]

Sky in Germany are letting you pay 39.99 euros for a 2 month ticket to watch the bundesliga. So a bit of a moral dilemma between giving myself some entertainment for 2 months and helping that tit Murdoch profit from a worldwide public health crisis. It's a tough one.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

On the way back from Tesco, a couple of ladies in both a mask and the kind of perspex welding style face shields you only see in ICU when patients are being intubated. Not that hysteria is gripping the nation at all.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

On the basis that most medical folk seem certain that a second wave will occur around autumn time, and those in poor health are more at risk than those in good health, I wonder how many people will be using the next few months to change their diet or exercise more to give themselves a better shot?

 

[OnlyBlueWillDo]

Sky in Germany are letting you pay 39.99 euros for a 2 month ticket to watch the bundesliga. So a bit of a moral dilemma between giving myself some entertainment for 2 months and helping that tit Murdoch profit from a worldwide public health crisis. It's a tough one.

Bt Sport show Bundesliga games, probably be a few on there.

Edit - BT have 3 games on today starting at 2pm.

 

[Billy Dean]

Bt Sport show Bundesliga games, probably be a few on there.

Edit - BT have 3 games on today starting at 2pm.

Unfortunately I can't access it mate, I'm not in the UK. Could try a VPN I guess.

 

[OnlyBlueWillDo]

Unfortunately I can't access it mate, I'm not in the UK. Could try a VPN I guess.

Ah right thought you was in UK, be loads of free streams on the net mate.

 

[Dixieslaces]

What's frightening about that for me is that my youngest had exactly that at 6 months and we rushed him to hospital fearing the same thing - sepsis.

He never go a diagnosis, they just treated with antibiotics. Luckily he recovered. When I first saw Kawasaki Disease in relation to this it chilled me.

So glad your youngest had a full recovery, it's scary when it's yourself but when it's your kids its terrifying.

 

[The binman chronicles]

To add to the 'schools' chat

And what is the impact if the primary carer(s) catch the virus from the child, they do not survive and the kid ends up going through the foster care system.

 

[COYBL25]

Our lass has the same in her school. You have some kids who have both parents on smack, you have some who only speak Dutch at school and speak Turkish, Kurdish, Arabic, Bulgarian etc at home where parents can't help them with home learning because they don't speak the language, some where there isn't a computer.

In poor/socially deprived areas home schooling is seriously ineffective.

Add to that parents who don`t give a toss and have no interest in their kids schooling too.

 

[Seanjd]

Yes, suffice to say, I don't recall seeing anything from the department of education, the local authorities, teachers unions, or anyone really. It seems to have been all a bit lacklustre. Hopefully now there is a clear need for something to happen, those involved will get together to make it happen.

The only information heads currently have to go by is the governmental advice released usually very late and which is always vague and doesn’t answer many questions. People forget that primary schools vary Massively in size and operation - my school is larger than many secondary schools - yet the expectation remains the same. Come June 1st, the government expects us to ‘safely’ return 300 children, 230 of which are 6 years old or under. We can manage in terms of staff and space, but even if we split off into groups of 15 (which we have been planning for weeks, you want to see all our floor markings etc) it is still impossible to socially distance. I’m in favour of trying to do everything to do everything possible to get the Year 6 children to return before summer to give them something of a transition to high school. There is absolutely no need to risk the increase of rate of infection by going any further than that yet.

By the way, we have a staff team of around 30 per day currently in school and have since March looking after on average 60 children a day (vulnerable and key workers), so everyone is expected to attend school at least a few times a week with no form of ppe or guidance from the government as to how that should really look. It’s just a good job we can run effectively without that guidance.

 

[Billy Dean]

On the basis that most medical folk seem certain that a second wave will occur around autumn time, and those in poor health are more at risk than those in good health, I wonder how many people will be using the next few months to change their diet or exercise more to give themselves a better shot?

My diet has improved immeasurably. Much less sugar, less booze and much more fruit and veg. I've still put on weight though and unfortunately don't have the energy to exercise apart from walking

 

[Bruce Wayne]

The only information heads currently have to go by is the governmental advice released usually very late and which is always vague and doesn’t answer many questions. People forget that primary schools vary Massively in size and operation - my school is larger than many secondary schools - yet the expectation remains the same. Come June 1st, the government expects us to ‘safely’ return 300 children, 230 of which are 6 years old or under. We can manage in terms of staff and space, but even if we split off into groups of 15 (which we have been planning for weeks, you want to see all our floor markings etc) it is still impossible to socially distance. I’m in favour of trying to do everything to do everything possible to get the Year 6 children to return before summer to give them something of a transition to high school. There is absolutely no need to risk the increase of rate of infection by going any further than that yet.

By the way, we have a staff team of around 30 per day currently in school and have since March looking after on average 60 children a day (vulnerable and key workers), so everyone is expected to attend school at least a few times a week with no form of ppe or guidance from the government as to how that should really look. It’s just a good job we can run effectively without that guidance.

The Asian approach appears to be to fumigate the children on the way in, so doing the best they can to ensure the only ones on site are those they can be relatively confident are clean. Then social distancing becomes less of an issue? As you say, space restrictions, plus the natural ways of children, would seem to render social distancing an impossibility.

 

[Seanjd]

The Asian approach appears to be to fumigate the children on the way in, so doing the best they can to ensure the only ones on site are those they can be relatively confident are clean. Then social distancing becomes less of an issue? As you say, space restrictions, plus the natural ways of children, would seem to render social distancing an impossibility.

I think the way forward for at least the short term is to massively improve online learning. I do have concerns regarding the equipment my children have access to if that’s the case though. The government need to step up massively in terms of education during this pandemic.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

I think the way forward for at least the short term is to massively improve online learning. I do have concerns regarding the equipment my children have access to if that’s the case though. The government need to step up massively in terms of education during this pandemic.

Apparently kids in our borough are given a device of some kind if they lack any at home, and I believe a data connection if they have poor internet. Obviously it still doesn't help if their environment is highly cramped, noisy and all that (or indeed if they have no food to eat), but it's one less thing to worry about.