Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

[Prevenger17]

Up to the individual.

It's up to the individual if they want to potentially expose elderly people to a fatal disease? @tommye I told you knobhead of the year wasn't a done deal

 

[YoboCopter]

Your loved ones could die or could've died at any time regardless of this. Do you spend your life sitting around and worrying?

Wow

 

[Tea_drinker]

It's up to the individual if they want to potentially expose elderly people to a fatal disease? @tommye I told you knobhead of the year wasn't a done deal

The elderly are meant to be indoors so who would have access to infect them?

 

[witchdoc187]

Don't think it's about being smug mate. I'm WFH for the foreseeable and I'm lucky enough to have a job where this is possible. A lot of sympathy to those who don't but the government should be doing much more to help here.

I've got a mate in events promotion (booking DJ's for gigs etc) and his income has essentially flatlined particularly after Boris' recommendation to not go to clubs and bars... whilst stopping short of forcing them to shut down. It's not good enough, he's living in London and technically self-employed so not entitled to any statutory sick pay nor meet many of the Universal Income requirements.

Feel sorry for your mate. There's gonna be so many people in a similar position. Gonna be very very tough in the coming weeks or months.

 

[emir]

Wonder how many babies will be born 9 months down the line, because of this crisis/lockdown. Will be a great strain on the NHS then too.

 

[Deleted member 48881]

In a few hours we will know for sure from the UEFA meeting if local leagues are set to continue or not

 

[Methuselah]

Our mini-supermarket had loads of loo rolls in this morning. They were rationing them to one pack per person. As I pointed out to the check-out guy, some pack's had 4 rolls in them and some had 12!

 

[Buckers]

The reported common symptoms include fatigue and a dry cough, but tbh, any kind of flu/cold symptoms alongside the low grade temps you guys already @Buckers have- self isolate 7/7. Paracetamol/ plenty of fluids. Any difficulties breathing- call 111 so they can prep for your arrival at a hospital.

Confirmed this morning 14 day quarantine for us. 2 weeks off work, every cloud and all that! Kids seem fine today but it’s too late as they had temps so no option.
Stay well everyone.

 

[witchdoc187]

Our mini-supermarket had loads of loo rolls in this morning. They were rationing them to one pack per person. As I pointed out to the check-out guy, some pack's had 4 rolls in them and some had 12!

Don't confuse people with mathematics at this difficult time.

 

[spectateur]

I think the problem with that though is a presumption, that after flattening the initial curve that some measures wont remain in place and things will get back to normal, that is not going to happen. Like it or not there are going to restrictions on liberty in place everywhere in the world for the next year. Foreign travel will be out, social restrictions on managing a first and second wave can be fluid. People in or out of countries wont be welcomed on either side of that equation. Limits can be implemented and freed up at anytime and reintroduced in the public good. As a strategy you can incrementally increase and decrease the curve based on a partnership of civil and social partnership for the greater good. Spirit of the blitz mentality etc.

So you are old enough to remember what life was like in big cities in England during the early 1940s.?
Rationing.Blackouts. Curfews.Travel Restrictions. Deaths!

 

[ParisToffee]

That's scary.

Peopleare just all stressed and panicking and Parisians are very highly stressed on a normal day ;-) 2 of the supermarkets near me are already shut down until thursday as ran out of stock and my area is not a very residential area ;-( Panic buying etc

 

[spectateur]

Peopleare just all stressed and panicking and Parisians are very highly stressed on a normal day ;-) 2 of the supermarkets near me are already shut down until thursday as ran out of stock and my area is not a very residential area ;-( Panic buying etc

I assure people that this does not apply to France in general. Yes the lockdown has begun,however,
No panic here in (23). Toujours sérénité among the cows and the forests.

 

[Toast]

Just started work and we are selling out of bloody everything.
Even the beer is running low !

Genuinely worse than Xmas.

 

[Neiler]

So you are old enough to remember what life was like in big cities in England during the early 1940s.?
Rationing.Blackouts. Curfews.Travel Restrictions. Deaths!

No but i am convinced of the power of community partnership for the greater good, there are so many examples in every decades since the war.

Im involved in health care and do have experience of managing virus outbreaks be it on a mico level, things like a flu out break amongst vulnerable groups and i understand the significant effect small restrictions can have on macro outbreak.

But you make a good point, every Novemeber everyone in the UK wears a poppy, has minutes silences, lays wreaths, blows the bugle and remembers the veterans and WW1 & WW2 as a mark of respect.

These veterans today are now the "vulnerable group" in society and the UK's approach places those who made a sacrifice for their country in vanguard of risk or in the "inevitable death" category.

Less we forget......

 

[Amw79]

Our mini-supermarket had loads of loo rolls in this morning. They were rationing them to one pack per person. As I pointed out to the check-out guy, some pack's had 4 rolls in them and some had 12!

The sensible thing is to buy your usual amount. If you live alone - a pack of 4 is all you need, if you’ve got a partner and 3 kids, pack of 12 might be appropriate.

Obviously this won’t happen, and people will be kicking the cane out from elderly people in order to get to their 12-pack to add to the 144 they’re stockpiling at home.