Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

[davek]

Is the problem not more that the flu is a known quantity in terms of how it spreads, its mortality rate, pathology, potential to mutate etc, whereas a new strain of virus spreading unchecked which we know/knew very little about is potentially extremely dangerous?

Same could have been said about Sars.

 

[RAFUH]

but that's going to be way too draconian for anywhere in the west

This is partially my point. Many in the US could be affected because we won't quarantine well thus some of the panic is warranted.

a surge of cases of infection, it cant be stopped.

True, but it can be mitigated if people don't blow it off as just like the flu, which has been my point all along.

Yes, the flu can be treated with anti-biotics,

No it can't. Antibiotics have no effect on viruses like colds and flu.

 

[davek]

No it can't. Antibiotics have no effect on viruses like colds and flu.

They can fight infection that go hand in hand with the flu virus...such as those that cause bacterial pneumonia.

 

[davek]

Alarming and reassuring at the same time.

 

[RAFUH]

They can fight infection that go hand in hand with the flu virus.

That is not what you typed which is why I corrected you.
Antibiotics can treat a bacterial pneumonia if it develops as a complication of a viral infection.
And regardless the same can be said for COVID19 as it is also a viral respiratory infection.

And now I am going to stop being silly and arguing with davek

 

[davek]

That is not what you typed which is why I corrected you.
Antibiotics can treat a bacterial pneumonia if it develops as a complication of a viral infection.
And regardless the same can be said for COVID19 as it is also a viral respiratory infection.

And now I am going to stop being silly and arguing with davek

 

[RAFUH]

FFS. Don't know which is worse - if this is true or that at this point I can believe it is.

 

[LinekersLegs]

Some encouraging news about the community spread

 

[davek]

FFS. Don't know which is worse - if this is true or that at this point I can believe it is.

Ha Ha Ha.

Did the yanks refuse to drink sarsaparilla when Sars was an issue?

 

[Walken]

That is not what you typed which is why I corrected you.
Antibiotics can treat a bacterial pneumonia if it develops as a complication of a viral infection.
And regardless the same can be said for COVID19 as it is also a viral respiratory infection.

And now I am going to stop being silly and arguing with davek

He's got his hooks in now, very few wriggle free...

 

[LinekersLegs]

FFS. Don't know which is worse - if this is true or that at this point I can believe it is.

Same reaction to this

 

[toffee82]

Panicked after looking at my shares this month

If you have any spare cash I would recommend buying.

Once this passes they will bounce back. If it doesn't pass then it doesn't really matter.

 

[toffee82]

FFS. Don't know which is worse - if this is true or that at this point I can believe it is.

It's OK. You add the lime to kill the virus!!

 

[RAFUH]

Same reaction to this

I have to travel twice in the next month.
If I die from COVID 19, please put this on my grave stone with me flipping it off

 

[Jebus_lives]

Not to nitpick here but I think you are conflating organizations being prepared (which they are) with being prepared for a pandemic (which they aren't). Noone is prepared for a pandemic where millions get ill and between 1-15% of the infected die; even to build that much capacity into the healthcare system for something that might happen once every 100 years is not feasible, to say nothing about ensuring transportation, food supply, power, law and order etc remains up and running when a large % of the workforce is either off or avoiding others. It can't really be practiced for either, unlike normal disasters.

The resource might not exist at all times, but the planning arrangements and gaps in those planning arrangements have been considered.

Arrangements will be scaled up in the event of a pandemic as necessary. It will have significant impact on the NHS, but that doesn't mean that people aren't prepared.