Here we go then.
SARS CoV-2 coronavirus / Covid-19 (No tin foil hat silliness please)
- Thread starter Don't Kill Bill
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Good thing that they've reduced testing capacity and started preparing to Get Brexit Done instead. Ffs
Dublin on lockdown now from midnight
Pubs closed or?
Start your lockdown with a lock-in?
Loads better. Treating for viral induced asthma and a suspected UTI. On a drip through the night as she was dehydrated. They just want to ensure she can last 4 hours between inhalers before discharge.
I've insisted on a covid test, as I'm front line NHS and won't be able to return to work for 14 days if she can't get a test. They told me that they can't do one, and have been given two different reasons why: don't have test available and she doesn't meet their criteria to be tested (inpatient criteria is currently different to the "get tested if you have a cough, high temp or loss of taste" message that we are receiving)
My wife is now bed ridden with the same symptoms, and we still can't get a test for her either.
Second child is back to normal, I have a sore throat but otherwise feel OK. So I really don't know. Possibly another seasonal virus that has triggered similar symptoms - but on a selfish pov, being unsure doesn't do me or my work any good.
Well it happened the last time..
Not long now until we can get arrested for sitting on a park bench, can't wait!
Genuine question - me being a selfish bastard I can work from home and I hate going out unless it's on nature walks anyway - but at one point will the majority of people say "feck it" and just stop locking down altogether? Before the end of this second wave or the beginning of the inevitable third?
Are we just doomed to be forced to live with this virus for the rest of our lives? Once the vaccine comes out will be just buy Beecham's Cold, Flu and Covid-19 tablets whenever we're at the checkout at Asda? Just calling in to our work and saying "I've woken up with a touch of the Covid, but once I'm over the worst I'll be back into work."?
It's amazing how we can normalise such crazy things if the right people tell us that it's alright. Austerity, means testing, Freddos costing 50p etc.
Are we just doomed to be forced to live with this virus for the rest of our lives? Once the vaccine comes out will be just buy Beecham's Cold, Flu and Covid-19 tablets whenever we're at the checkout at Asda? Just calling in to our work and saying "I've woken up with a touch of the Covid, but once I'm over the worst I'll be back into work."?
It's amazing how we can normalise such crazy things if the right people tell us that it's alright. Austerity, means testing, Freddos costing 50p etc.
Will there be a rush for toilet paper again.
It probably will eventually become the new normal. I’m not a virologist. Obviously. But I heard the virus becomes less virulent in order to pass on to new host as stronger strains get killed off with the victim. We’ll also build some herd immunity and by that time it will probably be normal to catch a dose of COVID and just to crack on with it as you kind of do with flu. That’s my extremely uneducated guess.
Wouldn't that kinda suggest people's immune system is dependent on the relative temperature where they live? If that makes sense.
Wet pubs remain closed
Restaurants not sure
Fair enough cheers.
Been taking Vitamin D tablets with my elderly Mum since April - dunno if it will do any good but don't think there is anything to lose by it.
Not sure, people seem more sceptical this time around. Not as many people shitting themselves.
So glad to hear your daughter is on the mend, I don’t know you but was worried for you.
Frustrating is not a strong enough word for the testing stuff that you’re experiencing
Is that like one of them bars in the middle of a swimming pool?
Didn’t Boris say he expected some sense of normalcy by Christmas? Now it’s all: second wave was always inevitable. 
It will never be normalized. You can't scare a significant portion of the nation into thinking trying to rebuild something of a normal life for themselves is a new version of Russian roulette only to then say it's all normal now we can coexist with this thing. Some people are so scared they genuinely wanted full lockdown until a vaccine.
If a vaccine doesn't come or isn't fully effective there will be many people who won't do anything beyond exist ever again, even if Covid becomes a very low issue.
You can tell he’s lying because his lips are movingDidn’t Boris say he expected some sense of normalcy by Christmas? Now it’s all: second wave was always inevitable.
What really got to me was Abdulnap Nurmagamedov dying of this virus. An athlete all his life from the caucasus mountains where people are typically healthier than your average person. Didn’t drink or smoke. Still died.
Bumbling idiot.
Those figures are significant enough to be shared here. Today's report in France: 13215 new cases; 154 deaths.
He died of a stroke off the back of a heart attack? I think he was hospitalised with the virus, but it ultimately wasn't the thing that killed him.
COVID or no COVID, if you live in Britain (particularly during the winter months), plenty of people would benefit from Vitamin D supplements.
Like you say, nothing to lose.
That is really grim. Feck!
That is not good. Is it the view in France that the government has lost control of the situation?
I haven't really been following in the last month, I do my thing and don't really care about the rest, so I don't know how people see things. Now there has been a big increase in testing in the last month, so the amount of new cases is logical in particular since life is pretty much the same as it was before the pandemic with the only difference being masks and hydroalcoholic gels everywhere.
It was inevitable because of the way the whole pandemic has been so badly handled. They have so much to answer for.
I'd be interested to see what a Red cafe poll would say at the moment with several options attached. Possibly ranging from immediate hard lockdown until cases are in double digits on one side to few restrictions and allowing the populace to make their own judgment on the other (ie fully open economy with social distancing etc).
PM delivered new measurements in NL tonight. Pubs and the like close at 1am but lights go on at 12, muzic goes off. Other stuff that wont make a difference and a big finger point at under 30s.
One thing was well put though, it wasnt especially the measurements brought in during march that got the figures down, it was adhering to them as a soceity that did, so thats what he's hoping for again, renewed discipline. Good luck.
One thing was well put though, it wasnt especially the measurements brought in during march that got the figures down, it was adhering to them as a soceity that did, so thats what he's hoping for again, renewed discipline. Good luck.
That's good news chap, keep us posted.
Will do mate.
You said that was already a thing. Like a broken record.
Too late! It'll be having Christmas dinner next.
Boris talking out of his arse? Never!Didn’t Boris say he expected some sense of normalcy by Christmas? Now it’s all: second wave was always inevitable.