Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

[Groucho]

 

[Amw79]

Thought I’d pop in here to get some light relief from the Everton game, by checking up on the old deadly pandemic.

 

[Walken]

See below Bruce

So how many millions of tests would people have to take every single day for every headache , every runny nose, every sore throat?

Imagine how many tests would be needed during spring and summer in hayfever season, those are some of the symptoms.

Every single cold throughout the year would require a test.

Every stress headache would require a test.

Every sore throat a test.

I can keep going on and on with this.

Billions of tests every single year that would equate to for every time a symptom showed itself.

Is that realistic?

How many millions of tests take places every day now? its a global pandemic and peoples lives and welfare depend on what will be the biggest challenge of our lifetimes.

There will be an official list of symptoms you've got them, get tested. I get tested twice a week in my job, it is sometimes tricky logistically but it is necessary. There are many many other jobs doing similar, that will be millions of tests every day, until this week no one was struggling to get a test in the uk, personally I think it should be a public resource but that's another debate.

Your concept that symptoms crossing over means other illnesses are 'theoretically' extinct is absolutely mental. Look at the official symptoms, you've got them get tested

 

[summerisle]

It's like a crap advent calendar :

 

[Deckard2049]

COVID-19: Wales to introduce new coronavirus restrictions with social distancing and closure of nightclubs from 27 December

It comes after the Welsh government cabinet met twice today to decide how to tackle the new variant, amid alarm at growing case numbers in the UK.

news.sky.com

So much for vaccine passes. Again the nightlife industry suffers.

 

[LinekersLegs]

Hope there are plans to add extra ventilation in hospitals even if it is portable filters.

 

[LinekersLegs]

Jeez


Doubt if testing is going to be able to keep up with that type of growth.

 

[coollino]

resturaunts shutting now for christmas, the lack of support is utter madness

 

[navidson]

 

[tsubaki]

Jeez


Doubt if testing is going to be able to keep up with that type of growth.

TBF the one glimmer of light in the timing of this is how many businesses and organisations that would normally be crippled by absence on this scale are already going to be closed for two weeks.

Still going to be very difficult for the emergency services, hospitals etc

 

[LinekersLegs]

 

[LinekersLegs]

TBF the one glimmer of light in the timing of this is how many businesses and organisations that would normally be crippled by absence on this scale are already going to be closed for two weeks.

Still going to be very difficult for the emergency services, hospitals etc

 

[BlueToff]

Guessing it's probably due to the ludicrously low vaccine take up rate in our capital

Well that and it's just a massive, massive city that any illness is going to spread quickly in?

 

[navidson]

Well that and it's just a massive, massive city that any illness is going to spread quickly in?

I also saw a video clip of commuters being interviewed this morning - A number of them were saying 'Yeah I can work from home but I prefer to come into the office so here I am'

Isn't that essentially illegal at the moment you Southern biffs?

 

[BlueToff]

How many millions of tests take places every day now? its a global pandemic and peoples lives and welfare depend on what will be the biggest challenge of our lifetimes.

There will be an official list of symptoms you've got them, get tested. I get tested twice a week in my job, it is sometimes tricky logistically but it is necessary. There are many many other jobs doing similar, that will be millions of tests every day, until this week no one was struggling to get a test in the uk, personally I think it should be a public resource but that's another debate.

Your concept that symptoms crossing over means other illnesses are 'theoretically' extinct is absolutely mental. Look at the official symptoms, you've got them get tested

The official list of symptoms are everything under the sun when you do take Delta into account too.

Just saying.

So the only solution would be to test everybody in the country every few days. Because a lot of people - 70% of people boosted - will be asymptomatic with Omicron. So how do you pick it up then?