Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

[marnie]

Can we leave the politics out of this thread FFS.

 

[summerisle]

Heard the news at work today; not since Asquith has a PM been brought so close to the consequence of their actions.

Anthony Eden says

 

[Sentinel]

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/covid-19-crisis-new-york-hospitals-1.5511026

 

[Aqui1a]

I don't agree. Testing will be the only way we beat this.

You can disagree, but it's true. I'm not against testing as a whole, btw. The only people who need testing are those sick with it and those who are at significant risk. There might be correlation with countries that do a lot of testing and them dealing with it well, but that's not a direct result of the testing. Those countries have also implemented actual strategies to stop the spread, like enforced quarantine.

More health officials are coming out and are saying stay at home, don't try to get tested. It makes absolute sense. Do you really want valuable medical resources used up just to confirm that some guy with a fever and a cough has the coronavirus, even though you can't do anything to help him, and he'll just be told to go home anyway?

 

[Connor]

I'm concerned now for the health of an 88 year old man whom I was assisting late yesterday evening. He was very frail and knew he shouldn't have been out.
He was however attempting to purchase £1100 worth of Google play cards to send off the codes to someone who had fixed his computer, and then was going to Western Union some more money tomorrow.
Bless him, he had no idea he was being scammed bit the scumbag gobshites has access to his computer.
I managed to get hold of his bank for him, which wasn't easy as all the call centres were closed it seemed and stopped his accounts as you could see they were switching money between accounts to make it all look genuine.
They kept phoning him and I had to pretend to be him to buy him some time.
The way they talked was genuinely haunting.
Luckily a bizzie popped in to get some shopping and calmed the arl boy down and we saved him all his life savings it would have seemed.

And as I was using his ancient mobile phone and vice versa, I just hope this episode hasn't made him poorly too.

Be well mate.

 

[peteblue]

Can we leave the politics out of this thread FFS.

indeed....

 

[tsubaki]

Anthony Eden says

he just lost his career, not his son or got infected

 

[DanEFC92]

Can we leave the politics out of this thread FFS.

Stop reminding me of the consequences of my actions!

 

[Aqui1a]

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/covid-19-crisis-new-york-hospitals-1.5511026

Speaking of New York...

 

[summerisle]

he just lost his career, not his son or got infected

He died the following year after the Suez crisis, is health issues.exacerbated by the crisis.

 

[ramacca]

Shameful that doctors have to resort to this. Shame on Johnson's government.

Sarah Marsh
A group of doctors have set up a crowdfunder to get vital personal protective equipment (PPE) to medics who are dealing with coronavirus cases, amid concerns that trusts are struggling to protect frontline workers due to a lack of supplies.
Dr Mona Barzin and Dr Salaj Masand, among others, published a page online that reads:

We are a group of colleagues (doctors in hospitals and GPs), who have set up this initiative to source PPE for those who need it most in our fight against coronavirus.

They added:

Unfortunately current hospital supplies are not sufficient and while we are reassured the government is doing everything it can, healthcare workers on the frontline are risking themselves daily without adequate protection to care for sick patients.
Healthcare workers on the frontline without PPE is the equivalent of going to war without armour and protection.

The page explained that PPE includes face masks, visors, surgical gowns and gloves.

So far, the page has raised £3,415 since being launched yesterday evening.

Here is a link to the page.

 

[marnie]

Stop reminding me of the consequences of my actions!

Had enough of it in the Brexit thread with people snarling and snapping at each other.

 

[peteblue]

Stop reminding me of the consequences of my actions!

For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.......

 

[tsubaki]

I'm concerned now for the health of an 88 year old man whom I was assisting late yesterday evening. He was very frail and knew he shouldn't have been out.
He was however attempting to purchase £1100 worth of Google play cards to send off the codes to someone who had fixed his computer, and then was going to Western Union some more money tomorrow.
Bless him, he had no idea he was being scammed bit the scumbag gobshites has access to his computer.
I managed to get hold of his bank for him, which wasn't easy as all the call centres were closed it seemed and stopped his accounts as you could see they were switching money between accounts to make it all look genuine.
They kept phoning him and I had to pretend to be him to buy him some time.
The way they talked was genuinely haunting.
Luckily a bizzie popped in to get some shopping and calmed the arl boy down and we saved him all his life savings it would have seemed.

And as I was using his ancient mobile phone and vice versa, I just hope this episode hasn't made him poorly too.

The one thing missing from the emergency bill this week was vastly increased penalties for people who do that (appreciate they may have been overseas but there are loads in the U.K. too).

Anyone who defrauds people, burgles occupied houses or seeks to profit criminally (edit: off people) during this should really be looking at a life sentence.

 

[OnlyBlueWillDo]

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/covid-19-crisis-new-york-hospitals-1.5511026

Fake News, Trump says all the Churches will be open for Easter.