Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

[BlueToff]

October 2020, 9 months after this whole thing started and people are still using the flu when talking about cov19.

Amazing really.

Well, I've had what would probably be described as a flu or bug this week.

I had to go get a test to be safe (instructed to do so by the NHS due to my housemate working in a hospital) even though I didn't have a cough or fever (just fatigue, sore throat, pounding headache etc).

My friend who tested positive a few weeks ago had exactly the same symptoms as me at the time he tested positive, and subsequently had one day of having a bit of a fever during his quarantine period.

I tested negative, but it's pretty clear that the symptoms can differ from person to person (or why else would the hospital have specifically called me to allow me to get a test?).

 

[Kenshin]

Ive just come home and it wasn’t rammed in the slightest.

It did seem very anti Liverpool reporting like.

Can't really comment seeing as though I was nowhere near though

 

[mill]

More restrictions based upon flawed data. Cases of flu and deaths from flu are so massively down yet for Covid so much higher than over summer? Amazing how we seem at last to have virtually eradicated influenza.

OMG SHOCK THAT A GLOBAL PANDEMIC HAS KILLED PEOPLE THAT OTHERWISE WOULD HAVE DIED OF OTHER CAUSES.

 

[PhilM]

I HEARD THAT PEOPLE WHO GET MURDERED WHILE DRIVING A CAR AND GET RUN OVER ARE PUT DOWN AS A COV19 DEATH DOH

My barber was waffling stuff about this last week. I asked him if he knew anything or had experience regarding how deaths are registered including the certificate...

... he didn't.

 

[Nymzee]

Who says it's simple? But is it any more difficult than trying to contain the behaviour of a whole nation?

How would you propose it be done then.

 

[Kurt.]

Kuensberg “this is difficult and could be more difficult if the devolved nations don’t follow England”

Would someone please inform her what’s being going around the uk over the past few weeks lol

 

[Kenshin]

Well, I've had what would probably be described as a flu or bug this week.

I had to go get a test to be safe (instructed to do so by the NHS due to my housemate working in a hospital) even though I didn't have a cough or fever (just fatigue, sore throat, pounding headache etc).

My friend who tested positive a few weeks ago had exactly the same symptoms as me at the time he tested positive, and subsequently had one day of having a bit of a fever during his quarantine period.

I tested negative, but it's pretty clear that the symptoms can differ from person to person (or why else would the hospital have specifically called me to allow me to get a test?).

Well, I've had what would probably be described as a flu or bug this week.

I had to go get a test to be safe (instructed to do so by the NHS due to my housemate working in a hospital) even though I didn't have a cough or fever (just fatigue, sore throat, pounding headache etc).

My friend who tested positive a few weeks ago had exactly the same symptoms as me at the time he tested positive, and subsequently had one day of having a bit of a fever during his quarantine period.

I tested negative, but it's pretty clear that the symptoms can differ from person to person (or why else would the hospital have specifically called me to allow me to get a test?).

There was a table the other month detailing if you have covid , the flu or a cold.

Most of the flu / covid columns were extremely similar , only difference between the odd one was rare or uncommon.

I'd imagine further into winter there will be far more isolation / tests because you can't really tell for the most part what you have. I know where I work if I have any sort of symptom is off to test and isolate.

Last month I had to have my daughter tested and had to isolate, results came back 09:10am, emailed to work, had a call 10 minutes later basically saying get your arse into work then lol

 

[TommyDavo]

If we are indeed about to lockdown

Then this tier system was a complete waste of time now wasn't it?

May work coming out of a lockdown to have it established already but these past 3 weeks were w complete waste of time if the government haven't even waited go see the results of such an idea.

This is all this is becoming now isn't it? Waste of time to end up in the same place they should have started with.

It got another 6 weeks tax receipts in from the south east.

 

[mrb85]

My barber was waffling stuff about this last week. I asked him if he knew anything or had experience regarding how deaths are registered including the certificate...

... he didn't.

Practice differs but any number of factors can be listed. If Covid is suspected but not confirmed it still goes down as a positive case.

 

[PhilM]

Practice differs but any number of factors can be listed. If Covid is suspected but not confirmed it still goes down as a positive case.

Yes, but it's not as clear cut as 'COVID' - it can be mentioned alongside the actual medical cause of death.

Go back to the excess deaths chart: as of last week, in England there have been 54,833 excess deaths beyond those expected since 20th March.

 

[Goat]

Practice differs but any number of factors can be listed. If Covid is suspected but not confirmed it still goes down as a positive case.

So you are suggesting they are fiddling the numbers to make it seem worse?

Thats fine.

But for what benefit?

Why would they want this to seem worse than it is? What is the end game?

Every single government in the world is in on the cov19 scam, right?

 

[Catfish Blues]

More restrictions based upon flawed data. Cases of flu and deaths from flu are so massively down yet for Covid so much higher than over summer? Amazing how we seem at last to have virtually eradicated influenza.

Hmmm.
The flu season has barely started.

 

[Goat]

Hmmm.
The flu season has barely started.

I would imagine the amount of flu jabs has decreased this year also, with most vulnerable people self-isolating more than usual.

 

[Nymzee]

Ah so is it the flu again?

 

[Goat]

Ah so is it the flu again?

Amazing isn't it.

Every government in the world is allowing its economy to tank for a cold.