Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

[orly]

Imported really starting to look like a major problem now, and Singapore had stringent airport checks in place even toward end of Feb.

Heathrow of course you could just stroll through customs.

 

[Tea_drinker]

In the first week of a suggested 12 weeks of lockdown there is already no pasta, paracetamol, hand sanitizer, eggs....

 

[Harryflashman]

Did you see that big girls blouse Samantha Smith crying the other day because isolation is "sooo difficult" (while living in a 12m Pound mansion). Unreal.

i haven’t seen it but people do struggle with mental isolation despite their net worth. Not saying that was the problem with Sam smith just a general observation

 

[LinekersLegs]

 

[orly]

i haven’t seen it but people do struggle with mental isolation despite their net worth. Not saying that was the problem with Sam smith just a general observation

QUICK @BUTTERS BACKPEDAL ASAP

 

[royalblue66]

Imported really starting to look like a major problem now, and Singapore had stringent airport checks in place even toward end of Feb.

Heathrow of course you could just stroll through customs.

Relative of mine arrived back from K L after three months,wasn't stopped.
(Last week).

 

[orly]

Relative of mine arrived back from K L after three months,wasn't stopped.
(Last week).

Yep - a colleague of mine back from NZ via Singapore. Masses of checking in transit... nothing when they got back to UK.

 

[royalblue66]

Yep - a colleague of mine back from NZ via Singapore. Masses of checking in transit... nothing when they got back to UK.

Crazy.

 

[ramacca]

A voice from the front line.



"A consultant from an NHS hospital within the M25 (he did not want his hospital named) told the Guardian that his hospital was coping at present but he was anticipating a “proper crisis” by Saturday.
While hospitals are increasing bed numbers and ventilators are on the way, he said staffing was key and so personal protective equipment (PPE) for NHS staff and testing was vital. He said:

They keep downgrading the [PPE] specifications in view of the shortages. There’s a real fear among non-frontline staff that they’re just being sold a dummy. The places where they have been most successful in containing spread among healthcare workers they have been much more aggressive with the PPE (giving it to all healthcare workers). The doctors are seeing other vulnerable patients without Covid. If they’re asymptomatic and seeing patients, it’s the perfect medium to spread Covid.

He said one department at his hospital ordered alcoholic hand gel but only got a tenth of the amount they had requested. He said trusts were largely doing what they could but added:

The feeling is the government is putting healthcare workers at risk because of the inefficiency of planning. You’re putting staff in an environment where they feel unsafe to work. You’re putting patients at risk and staff at risk. NHS staff are treating Covid patients and non-Covid patients sequentially all the time.

The consultant said that by distributing the correct specification of PPE among all healthcare workers, countries such as Singapore and South Korea had reduced spread. By contrast, he said:

In Italy the frontline medical workers had an eight times Covid risk than the general public. I haven’t seen anyone spraying the front of my hospital [with disinfectant] like we see in Korea.

On testing, he said:

What you want to do is test early. Then, if they test positive, for all intents and purposes they’re likely to be immune (when they recover). If they don’t have Covid they can work. If they do have Covid, they can self-isolate.
A lot of healthcare workers are in relationships with other healthcare workers. Children have fevers or coughs all the time. If you lose staff for 14 days every time they have a fever or cough or have contact (with someone with symptoms or who has tested positive) that is a problem. We’ve got to test the medical staff and potentially even test their contacts.
The crux of this is having enough doctors and nurses and ventilators. We are in week four of a crisis. In four of five weeks I am probably going to have everyone self-isolating (in my team).

 

[royalblue66]

The Three Cheers Bar in Greenock Scotland was apparently raided last night, it was full of drinkers defying the ban.

 

[tsubaki]

The Three Cheers Bar in Greenock Scotland was apparently raided last night, it was full of drinkers defying the ban.

pubs will be easy to deal with - just have their licences off them if they do that

 

[royalblue66]

pubs will be easy to deal with - just have their licences off them if they do that

Bit embarrassing though.

 

[Billy Dean]

Stories in the press today that hospitals in Germany are starting to take in patients from the hardest hit areas of France around the border and now Saxony is taking in 6 Italian patients. Not a huge number but perhaps a sign that they're confident they've got the capacity to deal with things. A mate of mine works as a Dr in a hospital in freiburg and he was saying he didn't think it would be that bad. I thought he was just trying to bring the hysteria down but maybe they're genuinely confident they have enough capacity.

 

[tsubaki]

Bit embarrassing though.

Not really - some people will always be idiots, and some people will always try to make money from idiocy. Close the pub and when this is all over get them to go to court and explain why they should have the licence back, ideally with a list of all their customers who caught this / died.

 

[royalblue66]

Not really - some people will always be idiots, and some people will always try to make money from idiocy. Close the pub and when this is all over get them to go to court and explain why they should have the licence back, ideally with a list of all their customers who caught this / died.

Well it seems the people in that area,working on the frontline, are very embarrassed.