Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

[LinekersLegs]

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

Same when S Korea figures started to come down - gives people hope that things can be turned around.

btw they were back below 100 cases today after a couple of recent spikes around 150 as they tested all their senior care facilities in the worst hit region,

 

[Barnfred 55]

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I wonder how many people on here would own up to hoarding.

Who has more than a weeks worth of food in their fridges?. Who has bought and immediately frozen fresh food? Who has more than a box of beers in the garage?. Who's store cupboards are stacked to the rafters with tinned food?

 

[ToffeeTim]

What happened to the over 70s having to isolate for 12 weeks. Has that just been forgotten now?

 

[Neiler]

Hope you are right mate but Wales announced 7 themselves and Scotland 3. I'm not sure England have announced theirs yet.

I know it says UK but I wonder if it is just England for the new figures.

Apologies if my eariler figure was unfortunately incorrect, 11 was being widely reported, must have been live figures from throughout the UK coming in. Seems it was just Wales, Scotland and the North.

Coronavirus: 11 more deaths take UK total to 244

The number of fatalities grows as the government refuses to rule out more stringent action to curb the outbreak's spread.

news.sky.com

 

[B17BLG]

My concern is that when we start to lift these measures in places like Italy that those that are in isolation start to contract and spread again.

Has italy seen consecutive decreases in new cases and deaths or just a single day?

 

[Jay]

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

This is a very interesting article: https://towardsdatascience.com/what...has-to-say-about-the-coronavirus-2473894f03c5

Google Farr's law

The theory which happened in China and hopefully is happening in Italy too is that the outbreak (any outbreak) is a bell shaped curve, it goes up, it reaches a peak and the same way it went up it start coming down, so in Italy we will not see jump from 651 new deaths today to 0 new deaths tomorrow, wheat we should see tomorrow is less than 651 new deaths

 

[B17BLG]

What happened to the over 70s having to isolate for 12 weeks. Has that just been forgotten now?

NHS writing to 1.5 million people saying they will need to remove from society as of Tuesday

 

[tsubaki]

What happened to the over 70s having to isolate for 12 weeks. Has that just been forgotten now?

they've extended it to all those at high risk of this - https://www.theguardian.com/world/l...08dcc95cc21175#block-5e779e4a8f08dcc95cc21175

 

[Walken]

Same when S Korea figures started to come down - gives people hope that things can be turned around.

btw they were back below 100 cases today after a couple of recent spikes around 150 as they tested all their senior care facilities in the worst hit region,

I think its vital to get any form of good news out there whilst still maintaining how serious everyone should be taking this

 

[ToffeeTim]

NHS writing to 1.5 million people saying they will need to remove from society as of Tuesday

they've extended it to all those at high risk of this - https://www.theguardian.com/world/l...08dcc95cc21175#block-5e779e4a8f08dcc95cc21175

Yeah I'm watching but they are only mentioning a specific 1.5m.

Is this in addition to the over 70s?

 

[Harryflashman]

I had a slight panic that as I qualified for the flu jab (although I didn’t take it up) through my injury (as it’s neurological and therefore recognised or grouped with MN disease and Parkinson’s ) I might get a letter , which in my current position for a host of reasons would frankly be disastrous, it actually kept me awake a little last night . Having read much of the criteria I’m fairly confident I won’t now , anyway fingers crossed .

I can absolutely see the reasoning behind this but I can also see some serious implications for lots of people as well.

 

[Barnfred 55]

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

Let's hope the downward trend continues tomorrow

 

[Brennan]

These journalists just asking the same f’n questions over and over.

 

[Foot Long Hot Dog]

NHS writing to 1.5 million people saying they will need to remove from society as of Tuesday

There’s nearly 9m over 70’s in the U.K. so I think the letters are for those who’s medical history puts them in the vulnerable category.

 

[roydo]

I wonder how many people on here would own up to hoarding.

Who has more than a weeks worth of food in their fridges?. Who has bought and immediately frozen fresh food? Who has more than a box of beers in the garage?. Who's store cupboards are stacked to the rafters with tinned food?

I guess its your definition.

Have I panic bought and lobbed tons of food in the trolly despite being fit and healthy? No.

Have I made sure there is enough healthy food and essentials, inc meds, in the house by lobbing one or two extra items in my basket each day for 2 or 3 weeks? Yes. Been doing it for 6 weeks.