Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

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Yeah. I must have missed Denmark mate. I also missed the UAE who have also tested more percentage of their population. The other mini-states like Luxembourg, Monaco, and Falkland Islands I just discounted. I got my info from the Worldometer site and Denmark was so far down the list I think I probably actually stopped looking. My point still stands though. Our testing per head of population is prolific and I don't think that many on here appreciate that.

The point I was making as regards pillar 1 was that I was acknowledging that a large number of tests undertaken had been duplicate tests on medical staff, so whilst we may have carried out 13,165, 651 it doesn't follow that 13,165,651 people have been tested. Having said that I would have thought quite a few pillar 1 tests would still be getting carried out on frontline medical/care staff who have not yet tested positive for the virus. In fact I'd go as far as saying that it would be downright negligent if those people weren't being regularly tested.

My daughter is currently having weekly tests, my Brother who works for the NHS has had a positive anti-body test so wont have to do weekly tests for a few months, unless he shows symptoms.
 
Went for a meal this evening and my oh my the ladies are out and looking beautiful, thighs all tanned and tattooed - must be absolute gold being a single bloke right now after 3 months of lockdown.

Fill yer boots boys.
 
None of us get through winter without a sore throat/temperature/aches and pains.

Most times you would plough on, head to work but now you just morally can’t do it.

That’s the real worry for me, you have to trust people to stay home and not take the chance.

And as I've tried to point out, people can not be staying home with colds.

Its unreasonable IMO.
 
And as I've tried to point out, people can not be staying home with colds.

Its unreasonable IMO.
I agree, I go to work with the sniffles but now I’m asking myself can I really do that given the advice?

I have been strict with the guidance, I have a snood for shops but I honestly don’t know how the general aches and pains will play out come late September.
 
I agree, I go to work with the sniffles but now I’m asking myself can I really do that given the advice?

I have been strict with the guidance, I have a snood for shops but I honestly don’t know how the general aches and pains will play out come late September.

As you say mate, we all get a little sniffle during the winter, but there are some people that spend the whole winter sneezing, full of cold and generally feeling like crap.

Are we expecting these people to just go on the sick for 3months?
 
As you say mate, we all get a little sniffle during the winter, but there are some people that spend the whole winter sneezing, full of cold and generally feeling like crap.

Are we expecting these people to just go on the sick for 3months?
But that’s it Goat. That’s my very point.

If I call in Monday with symptoms then I must self isolate for 14 days. There is no official line to say that I get tested or even produce proof that I have been tested.

There is also no medical proof that once you have it then you are immune.

As a responsible citizen then each time you get the aches then you must self isolate.
 
But that’s it Goat. That’s my very point.

If I call in Monday with symptoms then I must self isolate for 14 days. There is no official line to say that I get tested or even produce proof that I have been tested.

There is also no medical proof that once you have it then you are immune.

As a responsible citizen then each time you get the aches then you must self isolate.

Well with symptoms its 7 days.

Everybody in your house its 14 days.

So you get the sniffles, you ring in sick, tell them see you in a week cos you have a cold, lets assume they don't sack you.

Your missus then has to ring in sick for 14 days, so does your daughter, your son.

So on day 7 its time to go back to work, but your missus now has the cold, so its 14 days off for you.

And so on and so on.

Before you know it your whole house has lost 2 months of money and your living in a hostel.

A very unlikely scenario yes, but 1 I can see unfolding.
 
Well with symptoms its 7 days.

Everybody in your house its 14 days.

So you get the sniffles, you ring in sick, tell them see you in a week cos you have a cold, lets assume they don't sack you.

Your missus then has to ring in sick for 14 days, so does your daughter, your son.

So on day 7 its time to go back to work, but your missus now has the cold, so its 14 days off for you.

And so on and so on.

Before you know it your whole house has lost 2 months of money and your living in a hostel.

A very unlikely scenario yes, but 1 I can see unfolding.
If it doesn’t happen then we are blessed with millions of families who have seen off winter with no Covid symptoms whatsoever or if they have they have ignored guidance and gone to work.

That bet is not even odds.
 
Just so awful and sad
COVID-19 took the life of 29-year-old Samantha Diaz, the granddaughter of a Mexican migrant and mother of three who worked her way through school and became a medical assistant to a cardiologist.

Her death is one of many that illustrates not only how the young are not immune to the most tragic outcome of this disease but also how those in the health-care field remain especially vulnerable.

Diaz of West Palm Beach resident succumbed to the disease on July 10 at JFK Medical Center, just a few blocks from where she worked as a medical assistant.

She leaves behind a 2-year-old son and 1-year-old daughter as well as another 14-year-old son. The teen, on his own birthday, attended his mother’s funeral Thursday at Holy Cross Catholic Church in Indiantown where face masks are required.
 
I got a cold the other week and my gf as a key worker couldn't go in to work until I was tested and had the results.

A test was booked in for 11am the next morning in the car park of a sports centre in Huyton, and despite being told the results could take 5 days I got the results back at 8pm the same day.

Fortunately the missus only had to take the 1 day off work as it was negative
 
I'm just going to go out a limb and say one country has been at least attempting to make things better whilst the other has a leader who says "we need to be safe" and then 20 minutes later sends out official communication yelling "LIBERATE MICHIGAN" and various other things?>

They said there may be a second wave, apparently here in the States we don't believe in 'waves'. Just one maaaaassive crest.

I agree, liberate Michigan. Detroit sucks. The state sucks. I'll trade them for the frenchies in Quebec to Canada if they're down. I mean the people in Quebec would hate it, but they don't have a large population running around with guns refusing to wear masks.

I've lost all patience with anti mask people. You're an unforgivable, sad, selfish, unintelligent, unethical person if you do that.

It's to the point where I'm gonna start scrapping with people refusing to wear the mask. I might handle it OK, and that's even an unknown. But if I get it and I pass it on to older family members, be it I'm asymptomatic or don't know I have it yet. I'm swinging on people. I'm American appearantly this is the only way we can handle things. We gotta be super masculine and act like it's the 18th century still.
 
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