SARS CoV-2 coronavirus / Covid-19 (No tin foil hat silliness please)

The Firestarter said:
Well obviously the will.keep the monitoring until the disease has reduced sufficiently globally. Of course it may be months even a year. It is absolutely the right thing to do, first responsibility of a country is to ensure safety of its people.
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That's fine for a small island nation. They might be able to afford a policy of waiting for the world to reach a herd immunity around them.

It's not feasible for larger countries.

And let's be honest. Once 70% of the world catches it, the chances are that somebody at point in the future will slip through and bring the disease to them. Then they'll have to go into lockdown again.
 
Dante said:
I don't know, mate.

That'll be decided by the NHS policy on such things. I don't think they've been published it n the same way that they have done their public guidance.

Isolation for over 70s has been proposed this morning, so I'd imagine something along those line.
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Hopefully they have well defined policies in place and disseminated to locations beyond hospitals. The US has fecked this up big time, if there's one lesson from us, it's to avoid the outcome of the Washington state old folks home. I'm not confident the UK has learned.
 
Am I correct in thinking that countries like Japan and South Korea are generally more germaphobic than we are in the West? You tend to see pictures of people from those countries wearing face masks a lot. I'm wondering if this could contribute to their better control of this virus so far.
 
Testing gives an initial view on the picture. We've seen how Italy took off first, then Spain, and France third. When you have in France 10-15k tested with 4500 positive cases and 80 dead and UK has ~30k tested with 800 cases and 10 dead you can see the countries are in different stages. Spain Italy France have called lockdowns on around 100-200 dead. Whatever UK do, we're not there yet as it happens to even copy Europe, 2-4 weeks off.

After that it's about testing the people in serious condition. When you have populations of 10s of millions, 50k testing, 120k testing it doesn't equate to much and testing 500k is a huge manpower undertaking and contamination risk, waste of time for those doing the lab testing. Attention and testing needs to be on the people who come in the hospital and those who are trying treat the patients. You have to be retested and be safe to treat people. There's no point taking peoples results if they have mild symptoms now.
 
Neo_Mufc said:
Haven't we been misguided by the government wholly?

If people have died who are not in the high risk groups. Even catching this and giving it to someone is dangerous enough.

My brother seems to not give a feck he's still going out and about. My mums just gone to church. I've just messaged both to tell them to come home.

I'm just trying to be cautious.
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That's my only concern, I'm more worried about catching it and giving it to someone more vulnerable.
 
redshaw said:
Testing gives an initial view on the picture. We've seen how Italy took off first, then Spain, and France third. When you have in France 10-15k tested with 4500 positive cases and 80 dead and UK has ~30k tested with 800 cases and 10 dead you can see the countries are in different stages. Spain Italy France have called lockdowns on around 100-200 dead. Whatever UK do, we're not there yet as it happens to even copy Europe, 2-4 weeks off.

After that it's about testing the people in serious condition. When you have populations of 10s of millions, 50k testing, 120k testing it doesn't equate to much and testing 500k is a huge manpower undertaking and contamination risk, waste of time for those doing the lab testing. Attention and testing needs to be on the people who come in the hospital and those who are trying treat the patients. You have to be retested and be safe to treat people. There's no point taking peoples results if they have mild symptoms now.
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Good post. There's some very good context here.
 
redshaw said:
Testing gives an initial view on the picture. We've seen how Italy took off first, then Spain, and France third. When you have in France 10-15k tested with 4500 positive cases and 80 dead and UK has ~30k tested with 800 cases and 10 dead you can see the countries are in different stages. Spain Italy France have called lockdowns on around 100-200 dead. Whatever UK do, we're not there yet as it happens to even copy Europe, 2-4 weeks off.

After that it's about testing the people in serious condition. When you have populations of 10s of millions, 50k testing, 120k testing it doesn't equate to much and testing 500k is a huge manpower undertaking and contamination risk, waste of time for those doing the lab testing. Attention and testing needs to be on the people who come in the hospital and those who are trying treat the patients. You have to be retested and be safe to treat people. There's no point taking peoples results if they have mild symptoms now.
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Greece is on lock down with 4 dead.
 
Classical Mechanic said:
Am I correct in thinking that countries like Japan and South Korea are generally more germaphobic than we are in the West? You tend to see pictures of people from those countries wearing face masks a lot. I'm wondering if this could contribute to their better control of this virus so far.
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Maybe it’s because that part of the world has been subjected to viruses of a similar nature before
 
Neo_Mufc said:
Haven't we been misguided by the government wholly?

If people have died who are not in the high risk groups. Even catching this and giving it to someone is dangerous enough.

My brother seems to not give a feck he's still going out and about. My mums just gone to church. I've just messaged both to tell them to come home.

I'm just trying to be cautious.
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People are blissfully unaware of the grave situation we're all in. A part of me wished I was the same. Life would be much simpler. For what it's worth, my brother and mum are exactly the same. Not a single feck given.
 
People talking about the importance of the economic impact and at the same time downplaying the role of testing is an odd one.

The governments own models (that no one has seen but everyone is very confident in anyway because yeah..) clearly includes an assumption of building immunity. Therefore testing should be a priority to allow those confirmed as having it back into the work force quickly.

All the current situation is doing is creating unnecessary uncertainty so the masses don't know if they're safe or not.
 
Dante said:
That's fine for a small island nation. They might be able to afford a policy of waiting for the world to reach a herd immunity around them.

It's not feasible for larger countries.

And let's be honest. Once 70% of the world catches it, the chances are that somebody at point in the future will slip through and bring the disease to them. Then they'll have to go into lockdown again.
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But there is no other way to protect their most vulnerable. And the longer it takes, the more time for a collective effort to develop a vaccine / medicine that can reduce severity of the symptoms.

I agree that in UK this would have probably been impossible, without the army getting deployed.
 
JPRouve said:
That's my only concern, I more worried about catching it and giving it to someone more vulnerable.
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I'm itching to go to work tomorrow to start my new job because I've been off for 2.5 months. I had some mild symptoms including a bit of a sore throat and temperate yesterday which disappeared this morning and I thought if this develops(which it has not as I feel good after 1 day) I won't be going in.

I feel like we are at that stage where this will start to grow at a crazy rate. We've done nothing to contain this. Apart from the people who have been wfh and exercised caution. I fear people in my family who don't necessarily heed any sort of rationale will take only action until we are in lockdown.

Even then I'd be surprised if people still don't listen.
 
Drifter said:
Coronavirus: Supermarkets ask shoppers to be 'considerate' and stop stockpiling

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-51883440

What were they expecting from a me,me,me ,i'm alright jack society. This virus bought out the worse in people.
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It certainly has. My daughter lives in London. Today she went to her local supermarket with her 4 children. There was a massive que at 11am.
When she got inside, there were no trolleys or baskets so she put a few items in her children's hands to carry.

Within a few minutes, people had snatched the things from her children's hands ( they are 7 and 6 years old by the way).

When she confronted the people, she was verbally abused and pushed away.

I sincerely hope that those 'people' were proud of their despicable behaviour.
 
Classical Mechanic said:
Am I correct in thinking that countries like Japan and South Korea are generally more germaphobic than we are in the West? You tend to see pictures of people from those countries wearing face masks a lot. I'm wondering if this could contribute to their better control of this virus so far.
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My colleague was pretty critical of his home nation and, in China, masks are worn to protect against pollution.
 
I see all the time people who just piss and walk out of public toilets without washing hands. No chance are they washing their hands more the filthy bastards
 
@Penna this is the kind of misinformation people around me in the US are spreading now...

“I am at church and the preacher told me that He has friends living in Italy. He said they said the MEDIA over there is hyping this up saying that American has 10s of thousands of deaths . Really”
 
golden_blunder said:
I see all the time people who just piss and walk out of public toilets without washing hands. No chance are they washing their hands more the filthy bastards
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As I've become more Americanized this is one of the things that grosses me out the most about the UK.

I'm not convinced most UK toilets are set up well for this. No paper towels means you have to touch things like taps and doors after the washing.
 
duffer said:
They've (The Moroccan foreign ministry) just said that all international flights have been suspended. Hopefully because it's them making the decision, you'll get your money back.
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Really? Do you have a link buddy?
 
golden_blunder said:
I see all the time people who just piss and walk out of public toilets without washing hands. No chance are they washing their hands more the filthy bastards
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A few years ago I was waiting outside the cubicles to drop a shite when some fella opened the door and walked out. He was in there pissing all over the toilet seat so I grabbed him back and made him clean it before I used it.
 
Misses is supposed to be flying to South Africa on the 19th, how likely is that to happen?
 
Buster15 said:
It certainly has. My daughter lives in London. Today she went to her local supermarket with her 4 children. There was a massive que at 11am.
When she got inside, there were no trolleys or baskets so she put a few items in her children's hands to carry.

Within a few minutes, people had snatched the things from her children's hands ( they are 7 and 6 years old by the way).

When she confronted the people, she was verbally abused and pushed away.

I sincerely hope that those 'people' were proud of their despicable behaviour.
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That’s disgusting behavior! I’m wondering how long this will go before society starts to break down into fights and anarchy
 
senorgregster said:
As I've become more Americanized this is one of the things that grosses me out the most about the UK.

I'm not convinced most UK toilets are set up well for this. No paper towels means you have to touch things like taps and doors after the washing.
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Yeah the hygiene in British public toilets is shocking.
 
FAO microbiologists caftards, how feasible is the development of a SARS-cov2 test that works in the timeframe of minutes ? Compared to previous pathogens..
 
Neo_Mufc said:
Haven't we been misguided by the government wholly?

If people have died who are not in the high risk groups. Even catching this and giving it to someone is dangerous enough.

My brother seems to not give a feck he's still going out and about. My mums just gone to church. I've just messaged both to tell them to come home.

I'm just trying to be cautious.
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In 2009 we had an outbreak of H1N1 and 59 million of Americans got that and over 12000 died, media didn’t give a feck about it and we had toilet paper, 2020 a few thousand got the coronavirus about 50 died and let’s stop a country and no toilet paper. The bright side of this no lines to buy beer and I can start my spring work around the house since my schools closed for 2 weeks and no football.
 
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