Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

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maccavennie said:
Easiest thing to do in this situation mate is just forget your past life as Stephen.

Your new name is Nathan, your 31 years old and live in Surrey. Your a pharmaceutical salesman and you caught the rona on a trip up to Manchester in the Premier Inn breakfast lounge as it wasn't cleaned properly. You have a wife, an 18 month old daughter called Zola and a mistress called Stacey who you've been seeing on trips to Newcastle for the past 3 years.
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hahahahaha......amongst all the crap going on with the virus and the ‘what the EU did next’, it’s nice to see a good piece of humour.......whoa, just a minute, Stacey you say......*checks for Covid alarm.....
 
LouReedwalkonthewildside said:
The one thing I don't get about this piece is the wife saying "the government is to blame for the deaths after allowing people to visit other homes at Christmas" At the end of the day it was their decision to meet up and something they didn't have to do.

Four members of same family die from COVID after Christmas Day meet-up​


A woman says her life has been ruined after four members of her family died from COVID following a Christmas Day meet-up.

Tracy Latham has been left devastated after her partner, his parents and his uncle all passed away after catching the disease.

The family, who had been shielding since March, met up on Christmas Day after the government relaxed COVID rules and allowed households to meet for one day.

Latham, from Mackworth, Derby, described the loss of her partner, 48-year-old Darren Fisher, is “horrendous”.

The pair had been due to get married in July this year after spending 12 years together, during which time Fisher helped raise three of Latham’s children from a previous relationship.

Latham, 50, claims her partner caught COVID when he went to his parents' house in Allenton for just two hours.

She says that time together was enough for him and several family members to contract the disease, something she thinks would not have happened if the government had stopped people meeting on Christmas Day.

Over the course of the following week, Fisher, his parents Pat and David Fisher, aged 79 and 82, and his uncle, Michael Wilson, who was in his early 70s, all tested positive for the disease.

All of them have now passed away and another of Darren Fisher’s uncles, Geoffrey, who also caught the disease, is recovering after becoming seriously ill.

Latham, who is unable to work because of a long-term health condition, says the only other member of the family who had an underlying health condition was Fisher’s mother, who had diabetes.

Opening up about her losses, Latham said: "We don't really know who passed it on.

"Nobody was ill – Mick had a bit of a tickle, but that was all…

“They spent the day together – Pat and David, and Michael and his partner Gladys.

"Darren popped in to them for a couple of hours to say hi, as they hadn't seen each other for ages. It was a quick flying visit at around 9pm."

Things began to go wrong when Pat Fisher, who fell and hurt her leg on Boxing Day, was admitted to the Royal Derby Hospital on 27 December.

Latham said: ”She began to feel tired and rundown. A few days later, she tested positive for coronavirus as her condition got worse."

Her positive test result came through just days after arriving at hospital, ruling out the possibility of her catching it on the ward.

Things then got worse when Fisher began to display symptoms of the disease and he “began to struggle to breathe”.

He was later placed on a ventilator for nine days but he died on 11 January – without knowing that his mother and father had already died days earlier.

His uncle died several days later.

David Fisher, who was in a care home being treated for dementia, tested positive for COVID after he died and Latham believes he is the person who passed it onto Geoffrey Fisher, who went round to help him while Pat Fisher was in hospital.

Latham says the government is to blame for the deaths after allowing people to visit other homes at Christmas.

She said: ”The government hasn't done enough – the lockdown was too little too late.”
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She will be angry and wanting someone to blame as part of the grieving process. She has lost her partner and his family members.
 
LouReedwalkonthewildside said:
Didn't know that macca, how bad did you get mate, hopefully you're over it now though.
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I had a couple of days where it could have gone either way mate, I wasn't in a good place with it but luck was on my side, the medication kicked in and a few days later I was allowed home. I'm struggling still with tiredness, fatigue, lungs still sore when I take deep breaths.....but from where I was mate ( there's literally 5/6 days I can't remember ) I'm home and on the mend and I'm very very grateful for that.
 
Moomin said:
She will be angry and wanting someone to blame as part of the grieving process. She has lost her partner and his family members.
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My heart goes out to her after what she's had to go through and I agree she will be lashing out as part of her grieving process, I just think blaming the government was a strange one. I suppose though when we're lashing out through grief we're not thinking straight.
 
maccavennie said:
I had a couple of days where it could have gone either way mate, I wasn't in a good place with it but luck was on my side, the medication kicked in and a few days later I was allowed home. I'm struggling still with tiredness, fatigue, lungs still sore when I take deep breaths.....but from where I was mate ( there's literally 5/6 days I can't remember ) I'm home and on the mend and I'm very very grateful for that.
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Good to hear you're back on the mend macca. Fingers crossed you get quickly back to how you were before you got it mate.
 
LouReedwalkonthewildside said:
Good to hear you're back on the mend macca. Fingers crossed you get quickly back to how you were before you got it mate.
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Yes mate, I'm looking forward to being a lazy fat slob again I can tell you that lol

Just joking mate, looking forward to being fitter than before and healthier all being well. Try and look after myself a bit more.
 
maccavennie said:
I had a couple of days where it could have gone either way mate, I wasn't in a good place with it but luck was on my side, the medication kicked in and a few days later I was allowed home. I'm struggling still with tiredness, fatigue, lungs still sore when I take deep breaths.....but from where I was mate ( there's literally 5/6 days I can't remember ) I'm home and on the mend and I'm very very grateful for that.
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Very glad that luck was on your side and will cross fingers it doesn’t take too long for you to get back to full recovery x
 
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