Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

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Tipp blue said:
Any one here had the test done? what's it like? GP told me I have to be tested, I have a slightly sore throat and an intermittent cough, both things I regularly get together anyway, but I guess this is the reality now any dose displaying symptoms will be referred for a test.
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I was tested a few weeks ago, the back of throat bit just tickled, the up the nostril bit was a bit uncomfortable because they go up and round a bit. But, overall, it was fine.
 
Brennan said:
You’re really not making any sense.

The best you could come up with after trawling through my posting history was to find a post from at the start of June, saying I thought it was a better idea to quarantine all foreign visitors than to scan people’s temperature instead.

Quite what that has to do with the conversation i was having with Billy I’ve no idea.
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I know what you wrote. It stands to reason that if you were advocating strict quarantine for vistors to Britain at that point, then you're also advocating strict quarantine for people returning to Britain from holidaying abroad. Again...that's unrealistic, and it's an inevitable outcome of the call to reopen the economy from people like you.

You cant both lobby for less restrictions and then demand a total compliance of the population that decided to use the reopening of the economy. You should own that, but you wont.
 
davek said:
I know what you wrote. It stands to reason that if you were advocating strict quarantine for vistors to Britain at that point, then you're also advocating strict quarantine for people returning to Britain from holidaying abroad. Again...that's unrealistic, and it's an inevitable outcome of the call to reopen the economy from people like you.

You cant both lobby for less restrictions and then demand a total compliance of the population that decided to use the reopening of the economy. You should own that, but you wont.
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Like i said, what you’re talking about has absolutely nothing to do with what Billy said or my response.

Nothing about quarantine.

The post you quoted of mine from the 5th of June was in support of a quarantine at the time when no alternative arrangements had been made. I was in support of quarantining as a short term measure while the government sought to create sensible travel routes. This was at a time when the daily death count was still over 200.

Why you think that means I think everybody who crosses a border today must quarantine is beyond me. I was talking about not attending mass gatherings, totally different from quarantining for a week or more.

Your whole attack line here is nonsensical and a bit bizarre really.
 
Brennan said:
Like i said, what you’re talking about has absolutely nothing to do with what Billy said or my response.
Nothing about quarantine.
The post you quoted of mine from the 5th of June was in support of a quarantine at the time when no alternative arrangements had been made. I was in support of quarantining as a short term measure while the government sought to create sensible travel routes. This was at a time when the daily death count was still over 200.

Why you think that means I think everybody who crosses a border today must quarantine is beyond me. I was talking about not attending mass gatherings, totally different from quarantining for a week or more.

Your whole attack line here is nonsensical and a bit bizarre really.
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This is sophistry you're resorting to. Quarantining was always going to be a feature of foreign travel - it's been an instruction that has come up time after time since holidays abroad were sanctioned...and it was always the stated intent from the government that they'd enforce it as and when necessary.

As stated, you're not taking ownership of this outcome - an outcome that flowed from opening up the economy and travelling abroad and back again. You have no basis for insisting total compliance with quarantining. It's informal and when you hand people the opportunity to circulate again then you cant expect the type of discipline required to quarantine - certainly 100% compliance.
 
Surprised this didn’t include the loss of smell/taste that seemed to be one of the more common early symptoms
www.abc.net.au

Scientists find the order that COVID-19 symptoms will most likely appear in

By analysing tens of thousands of patients, researchers identify which symptoms appear first if you contract coronavirus compared to the common flu. It's a finding they hope will lead to earlier detection of the virus around the world.
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There are many reasons why coronavirus is difficult to control, but the fact it mimics the symptoms of other common viruses, including the flu, presents a major hurdle.But new evidence suggests there is a certain order in which COVID-19 symptoms appear, and researchers hope their findings will enable earlier testing.
The paper, published in the Frontiers in Public Health journal, by researchers from the University of South California (USC), is based on the symptoms of more than 55,000 confirmed cases of COVID-19.

The researchers found the initial symptoms often appear in the following specific order:

  1. 1.Fever
  2. 2.Cough
  3. 3.Nausea and/or vomiting
  4. 4.Diarrhoea
This order differs only slightly from other respiratory illnesses, but there's a critical difference that might help with the detection of COVID-19.

The researchers hypothesise that if you have contracted influenza (the flu), the first symptom you will observe is a cough, not fever.

The ability to discern between the flu and coronavirus early on cannot be overstated, as COVID-19 is two to three times more contagious than influenza.
"This order is especially important to know when we have overlapping cycles of illnesses like the flu that coincide with infections of COVID-19," said researcher Peter Kuhn, professor of medicine and biomedical engineering at USC.
 
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