Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

[aazak]

Welp, looks like I'm in isolation for a week.

Throat started feeling a bit scratchy, then my chest started to feel tight and like I have phlegm trapped in my upper chest that I just cant seem to cough up.
No other symptoms and I feel generally OK. Good chance it's just a minor cold of chest infection, but decided not to be a selfish git & not take the chance and head home for the week. Especially given someone I work with had pneumonia last year, I don't want to be the one to finish her off!

Hopefully you will be OK. Strange, but that phlegm might be a good sign.

 

[roydo]

Welp, looks like I'm in isolation for a week.

Throat started feeling a bit scratchy, then my chest started to feel tight and like I have phlegm trapped in my upper chest that I just cant seem to cough up.
No other symptoms and I feel generally OK. Good chance it's just a minor cold of chest infection, but decided not to be a selfish git & not take the chance and head home for the week. Especially given someone I work with had pneumonia last year, I don't want to be the one to finish her off!

Ok for food? (means ale really).

 

[tsubaki]

Welp, looks like I'm in isolation for a week.

Throat started feeling a bit scratchy, then my chest started to feel tight and like I have phlegm trapped in my upper chest that I just cant seem to cough up.
No other symptoms and I feel generally OK. Good chance it's just a minor cold of chest infection, but decided not to be a selfish git & not take the chance and head home for the week. Especially given someone I work with had pneumonia last year, I don't want to be the one to finish her off!

Get better soon mate.

 

[LostLegend]

Hopefully you will be OK. Strange, but that phlegm might be a good sign.

Yeah, just spoke to my Mum (Happy Mothers day! ) she works for the NHS and said phlegm tends not to be a symptom, but definitely the right call not taking the chance, given what I've said above and one of my mates having a serious chronic lung condition (I've mentioned him in the scummy tories thread)

Ok for food? (means ale really).

Fine for food, I always have pasta/rice/lentils in the cupboard and plenty of frozen bits in my freezer.
Currently arranging delivery of a no-contact "care package" on the ale front from my brother tonight

 

[Deleted member 48881]

oof

 

[Jay]

Looks like Italy is on the right track

5560 new cases compared to 6557 yesterday
651 new deaths compared to 793 yesterday

 

[aazak]

The death toll from Covid-19 in Italy has risen by 651 to 5,476 , an increase of 13.5% but down on Saturday's figure when some 793 people died.

The total number of cases in Italy rose to 59,138 from a previous 53,578, an increase of 10.4%, the Civil Protection Agency said, the lowest rise in percentage terms since the contagion came to light on 21 February.

 

[Tubey]

Looks like Italy is on the right track

5560 new cases compared to 6557 yesterday
651 new deaths compared to 793 yesterday

So bizarre to "like" a post about 651 people dying...

 

[Tubey]

The death toll from Covid-19 in Italy has risen by 651 to 5,476 , an increase of 13.5% but down on Saturday's figure when some 793 people died.

The total number of cases in Italy rose to 59,138 from a previous 53,578, an increase of 10.4%, the Civil Protection Agency said, the lowest rise in percentage terms since the contagion came to light on 21 February.

This is more key than the death rate, as it shows lockdown measures are starting to take affect.

The death rate could continue to rise exponentially in the short term.

 

[roydo]

So bizarre to "like" a post about 651 people dying...

Yeah, I know. Proper weird times we are in, but bizarrely, this is starting to feel the new normal.

Like when we are allowed off the naughty step and out to play, we wont want to.

 

[Walken]

Looks like Italy is on the right track

5560 new cases compared to 6557 yesterday
651 new deaths compared to 793 yesterday

Still horrific, but not seeing a constant relentless rise in figures must give them some much needed hope

 

[LostLegend]

Yeah, just spoke to my Mum (Happy Mothers day! ) she works for the NHS and said phlegm tends not to be a symptom, but definitely the right call not taking the chance, given what I've said above and one of my mates having a serious chronic lung condition (I've mentioned him in the scummy tories thread)



Fine for food, I always have pasta/rice/lentils in the cupboard and plenty of frozen bits in my freezer.
Currently arranging delivery of a no-contact "care package" on the ale front from my brother tonight

Also, wondering if I should just leave a note on my flat door for my downstairs neighbor? Or just paint this on my door instead:

 

[BlueToff]

Of course that is correct. I was just correcting your suggestion that Italians are generally not healthy.

Sorry, I clearly worded it badly.

I just meant as in in terms of being more susceptible to this illness an aging population doesn't help.

Didn't mean they're an unhealthy people!

 

[LinekersLegs]

Looks like Italy is on the right track

5560 new cases compared to 6557 yesterday
651 new deaths compared to 793 yesterday

Need more than one data point but hope like hell it is the start of a trend downwards.

Still horrific on both an individual and national level - Italians are going to need a lot of support from all of us both financially and emotionally.

 

[evilwebby]

A big thing happened on that ship that did not happen most places: everyone was tested aggressively and received care right away if ill. What you are looking at in the Diamond Princess numbers is an absolute best case scenario for fatalities.

Elsewhere, only the severely ill are receiving tests and we do not know the true scope of the problem. In places such as Italy, Spain, Iran and China that became overwhelmed, the fatality rate is far higher. Some of that is probably explained by unobserved cases of the disease, and some of that is probably explained by proper acute care simply not being available.

The point of shutting everything down is to slow down the spread of the virus to prevent unnecessary fatalities resulting from the health care system becoming overwhelmed. In the short term that will have a massive economic impact, but the alternative does far more long term damage by wiping out more productive human capital.

It's a best case scenario for fatalities in the cross-section of population that the ship's demographic represents, given a confirmed 100% infection rate for that population sample.