Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

[Diogenes the Cynic]

Not death of a family member but the death of people who I don't know and have never met.

Are you even able to estimate the amount of Cambodians you've killed and eaten?

 

[Paris]

Are you even able to estimate the amount of Cambodians you've killed and eaten?

Well, I can estimate the amount of Cambodians who were well rewarded for the service they provided.

 

[tsubaki]

Your kidding right, this lot have been constantly warned for years about this happening By chance they have got lucky with the correct flu vaccination being used. It was sooner rather than later...

exactly; warnings have gone unheeded

 

[Paris]

Some people are just not responsible, would be nice if everyone thought of others over themselves. You can see from the panic buying how myopic we can be.

Those people are in the minority.

 

[Diogenes the Cynic]

Well, I can estimate the amount of Cambodians who were well rewarded for the service they provided.

Yes ok why not.

What's the estimate?

 

[Sentinel]

warnings have gone unheeded

For sure or maybe it was allowed to happen. Because "herd immunity"

 

[Billy Dean]

She sounds ace.

Yeah with her age and conditions she would be high risk but we just don't know what the risk parameters really are. I'm worried about my Dad (cardiac condition and stroke) and my mum who has bad asthma. Both late 50s but you just don't know.

The only real thing apart from trying to keep her immune system healthy is to keep her isolated as you probably know. The thing about barrier nursing isn't really that it's difficult, you've just got to be very organised and she will probably go mad wanting to get out.
Nobody in or out. Get rid of external food packaging and leave outside the house. Wear a mask and surgical suit if you can get one. Monitor everything. The mail. Wipe surfaces and clean hands repeatedly.
To be honest just keep her in the house and leave her shopping outside for her.

That's all i can think of right now sorry mate

Just regarding the bold part, I was wondering about this when I got back from the supermarket on Friday, like what if the guy at the till was infected or if an infected person picked something up and then put it back in the shelf. Is that really a valid concern or is it going overboard. I thought it would probably be over paranoid to wash all the goods I bought before putting them away, but should I have? Too late now anyway I guess.

 

[Barnfred 55]

Plenty of dock leaves around soon


Also, plenty of crap newspapers.......

Is that in case you wipe your arse with nettles?

 

[Nymzee]

Just regarding the bold part, I was wondering about this when I got back from the supermarket on Friday, like what if the guy at the till was infected or if an infected person picked something up and then put it back in the shelf. Is that really a valid concern or is it going overboard. I thought it would probably be over paranoid to wash all the goods I bought before putting them away, but should I have? Too late now anyway I guess.

To me if you're just careful about what's inside the packagin it's fine, if that makes sense? Like doesn't matter if someone infected touches my Branflakes box as long as no one touches the Branflakes inside the packet.

 

[Barnfred 55]

What a morning

Have you slept at all in the last 24 hours?

 

[Diogenes the Cynic]

Just regarding the bold part, I was wondering about this when I got back from the supermarket on Friday, like what if the guy at the till was infected or if an infected person picked something up and then put it back in the shelf. Is that really a valid concern or is it going overboard. I thought it would probably be over paranoid to wash all the goods I bought before putting them away, but should I have? Too late now anyway I guess.

Depends how thorough you want to be.

If you want to be safe just throw away the external packaging and wash your hands. In the unlikely event that somehow the virus got in prior to being sealed it improbable it would be active.

Just do what you can. You are going to find it difficult to replicate a medical facility in your own home but just be organised.
Don't bring external items past a certain point. When getting changed or completing tasksv have a clean and an unclean hand etc.

I'm literally not going to do any of that personally, this could last weeks. Months.

 

[Paris]

Okay, this is getting very serious in Cambodia.

Apparently all the bars in PP have now shut for one month.

 

[DrEFC]

Every bit of evidence I've seen from the Spanish Flu indicates that the second wave was worse than the first wave. If the Wuhan Flu goes the same way then it is going to be very scary.

Why was there a second wave?

 

[Paris]

Yes ok why not.

What's the estimate?

I estimate it at around 5.

 

[tsubaki]

Scum:

German newspaper Welt am Sonntag has reported that US president Donald Trump has sought exclusive rights to a vaccine for the coronavirus which is being developed by a German-based company, CureVac.
The report, which quoted unnamed sources, said Trump had offered large sums of money to German scientists working on the vaccine.

US slashes interest rates as states go into lockdown – as it happened

Number of UK deaths rises to 35 while other countries introduce stricter new measures. This blog is closed.

www.theguardian.com