I don't mean to be a downer, but I think it's very likely you won't be going to Italy in the next 3 months.
SARS CoV-2 coronavirus / Covid-19 (No tin foil hat silliness please)
- Thread starter Don't Kill Bill
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Honestly there is probably zero chance of you going to Milan in May.
I'm hoping things settle by then. The flights were only 60 quid return. I'm sceptical about booking accommodation atm. Not sure what to do.
Yeah we have how many wards set aside here? Just in the Mater?
Out of interest how many free respirators would NI have daily? Obviously wont be quoting you.
Book something with free cancellation until a week up front or something like that. Can't do anything wrong in that case, just cancel freely if it's clear that you won't be going.
Get a refund. This thing is nowhere near peaked yet, and things will get worse before they'll get better.
These guys need to feck off with these threads. Most of the twitter stuff is contradicted in every other tweet.
No idea on the respirators but I know that the Royal have said they have no more capacity to take COVID patients so all are now going to the Mater - no idea how many beds they have but honestly I doubt it's all that many because there are rarely any beds (or beds but not enough nurses to work them) as it is without all this.
I sit in on beds meetings each week and the pressure to get people moved home is enormous - that was before this because of the normal winter pressures. We don't have enough capacity to keep people in wards for longer than absolutely necessary so I honestly have no clue how they are going to manage when this properly kicks off.
Germany has only reported 2 deaths - their healthcare system must be incredible.
How are rugby clubs in such a bad financial situation? Do they pay massive wages?
Trump has a natural ability for this. They'll be fine.In contrast, wtf are USA doing?
Apologies for it being the wrong forum but heck..... no wonder the planet is fecked in respect of climate change when we can fly to Milan and back from the U.K. for 60 quid.
Except for the fact that it keeps growing everyday. I don't see how this doesn't follow the Italian trend. The rate of infections per tests in also narrowing - shows we aren't testing nearly enough given that its estimated that this virus as transmission rate of 1:3. Given that we already have almost 400 cases, is it implausible to assume we may already have 1200?
I'm not sure but it just shows you the economic impact of this when seemingly established sports clubs are in danger of going out of business. Imagine how many small businesses in UK will go under. This is a disaster.
They know its growing though and they are waiting to push the button, its no surprise to them they are doing exactly what they said it will spread but it will be in a more controlled fashion we have accepted this is not gonna be stamped out completely its basically by the book.
I'm dreading listening to Nolan TBH, we will stick our heads in the sand and pretend were ok.
I believe that we're approaching the "we're fecked" stage in the UK.
Just reading that United's game against LASK on Thursday will be played behind closed doors
The only thing I see is that we have two options:
To go in the Italian direction
Or
To follow in South Koreas path
We've chosen the former.
Any one looked into this?
Nolan is a tube. More interested in dividing people and stoking up endless shite rather than actually thinking about the big picture and being honest with people.
Off work today with a bad chest after having a fever and aches yesterday. I’m asthmatic. 2 other colleagues have also not turned in today, we work in Liverpool and live just outside.
Looks like none of us have any intention of getting tested, wouldn’t even know where to start, just lying in bed drinking lemsips and reading this thread.
Looks like none of us have any intention of getting tested, wouldn’t even know where to start, just lying in bed drinking lemsips and reading this thread.
The gate is much more important to rugby clubs, tv revenue although increased with the super league is nothing like football tv revenue
Pretty sketchy. An Imgur link with what appears to be a photograph of something written on paper with an overlay of somebody commenting on it presumably during a YouTube video.
Off work today with a bad chest after having a fever and aches yesterday. I’m asthmatic. 2 other colleagues have also not turned in today, we work in Liverpool and live just outside.
Looks like none of us have any intention of getting tested, wouldn’t even know where to start, just lying in bed drinking lemsips and reading this thread.
feck lemsips. I'm getting some whisky and honey on the way home. Might be a rush on that.
277 infected in Norway now, up 87 from yesterday. Minister of Health says that we are now «entering a new phase» and there will be more restrictions.
Book refundable rooms.
The Italians up until a couple of days ago weren't really taking things seriously. Nobody was paying any attention to advice and plenty were still travelling around like normal, some were even sneaking out of red zones to go on holiday. Now people are getting genuinely worried. It took a couple of days to get going but now everything is closed and the streets are deserted. I think/hope in a week or so we will start to see the cases drop. The measures taken are as strong as anywhere in the world, the government has effectively closed the whole country for an entire month. If they don't work, there is nothing that will be tolerable to Western countries that will.
That's been reported in Spain today, not sure about elsewhere; if you look at El Pais, they have diagrams and shit showing how and why they (the Chinese researchers) arrived at the numbers.
Off work today with a bad chest after having a fever and aches yesterday. I’m asthmatic. 2 other colleagues have also not turned in today, we work in Liverpool and live just outside.
Looks like none of us have any intention of getting tested, wouldn’t even know where to start, just lying in bed drinking lemsips and reading this thread.
I know this is of no help, but here in Spain, if you call the equivalent of the not 999 number in the UK and have symptoms, they send you a home test kit.
Regarding the amount tested.
Italy was 23/24k tested as of a week ago (2nd-3rd of March) with 2500 cases and 79 deaths on their hands, that's a 10/11% positivity rate.
UK 9th of March 24,641 tested 319 positive (1.3%) 5 deaths .
For the low key situation UK has been in for the last two weeks UK done a decent amount of testing.
Since the lockdown Italy has tested about 25k more, up to 49k.
The situation is a lot different, Italy is a hot spot and we're not simply lagging behind a days, if we were then we'd be on around 2000 cases and 70 deaths or if you want to stretch it to a two week lag we'd have to be on around a 1000 cases and 40 odd dead.
Spain and France has some serious looking numbers, UK might follow suit soon, I'm not saying we won't be but we're not simply lagging by few days or week or two weeks. Spain and France are with around 1500 cases and 35 deaths each.
Italy was 23/24k tested as of a week ago (2nd-3rd of March) with 2500 cases and 79 deaths on their hands, that's a 10/11% positivity rate.
UK 9th of March 24,641 tested 319 positive (1.3%) 5 deaths .
For the low key situation UK has been in for the last two weeks UK done a decent amount of testing.
Since the lockdown Italy has tested about 25k more, up to 49k.
The situation is a lot different, Italy is a hot spot and we're not simply lagging behind a days, if we were then we'd be on around 2000 cases and 70 deaths or if you want to stretch it to a two week lag we'd have to be on around a 1000 cases and 40 odd dead.
Spain and France has some serious looking numbers, UK might follow suit soon, I'm not saying we won't be but we're not simply lagging by few days or week or two weeks. Spain and France are with around 1500 cases and 35 deaths each.
They will need to reopen most of the city hospital which isn't being used. Of course, it would probably cost a few million just to clean the unused corridors.
A good day today in Italy, 'only' 1,000 new cases reported.
We are also buying a load of ventilators and respirators from China, and bringing doctors over who worked the peak of the outbreak there. One hidden benefit of being the first outbreak is we get first dibs on their stuff i guess.
We are also buying a load of ventilators and respirators from China, and bringing doctors over who worked the peak of the outbreak there. One hidden benefit of being the first outbreak is we get first dibs on their stuff i guess.
These exist? Is there some reason they’re not being made available to every household?
What's the score with people in Italy who don't live there? Are they stuck for a month or are they allowed a window to leave?
Also are the supermarkets still open?
Italy deaths jump from 463 to 631 in a day. 36% increase.
Thanks for this. Those numbers do somewhat show that we might have this under control at the moment.
Sadly, it seems there healthcare capacity is already well past saturation.