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

F-Red said:
Just found an article & their director of health is attributing it down to rigorous testing - seems like they're on the front foot & others trusts should take note.
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Ah, well that would do it. No doubt also proof that it’s more widespread than the entire negative numbers show.
And as many scientists have mentioned, that is a little problem in testing when it comes to trusting those numbers
; a negative result today does not mean a negative result tomorrow.
 
VP89 said:
Why did Borris feel the need to test himself if he had mild symptoms? There are doctors Pharmacists and nurses who aren't tested and this bellend needs a test from mild symptoms?
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He didn't. The chief medical officer recommended it.
 
DOTA said:
I hope he dies. I very much doubt he will but I think it would be a wake up call for the world. I'm also wary of how a PM who has already shown a reckless attitude to the pandemic would behave if he himself were to be immune.
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Oh no DOTA, please don't talk like that I....

Nah, I got nothin.
 
DOTA said:
I hope he dies. I very much doubt he will but I think it would be a wake up call for the world. I'm also wary of how a PM who has already shown a reckless attitude to the pandemic would behave if he himself were to be immune.
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Should be banned for that.

And what do you mean 'it would be a wake up call for the world'? Have you not looked out of your window or turned a TV on in the last month?
 
DOTA said:
I hope he dies. I very much doubt he will but I think it would be a wake up call for the world. I'm also wary of how a PM who has already shown a reckless attitude to the pandemic would behave if he himself were to be immune.
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I got a warning for suggesting the De Gea would benefit from any enforced rest due to injury. Think this might be going a lot further.
 
11101 said:
Should be banned for that.

And what do you mean 'it would be a wake up call for the world'? Have you not looked out of your window or turned a TV on in the last month?
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I'm following quite closely. Do you think America has woken up to the reality of this yet?
 
F-Red said:
Sheffield stuck out for me as a wierd result, whether they're testing more or they have a more local outbreak is stirring the curiosity.
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We have a very good virology dept so don't know if that's encouraging more tests but also, a Uni lecturer tested positive early on which could have caused quite a spread.

edit: It's the former. A spokesperson said there's more testing going on here than in most other places.
 
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DOTA said:
I'm following quite closely. Do you think America has woken up to the reality of this yet?
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No...

oh wait:

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Ekkie Thump said:
Yeah, but when you figure down from total beds to acute care beds the UK resolves into a single dubious datapoint from 2017. I think that's because someone changed the definitions in 2010 so it's now difficult to ascertain the true numbers. A better source for the relative distribution of hospital beds over time is presented here. It's sufficiently clear from the figures that both governments reduced general and acute care beds, but it's certainly not the case that the 2000's government reduced them at a faster rate. I'm not really pointing fingers though, most advanced healthcare systems have being trying to make as much healthcare external to hospitals as they can.

Two areas that post 2010 governments have done better in is in expanding critical and social care bed numbers.
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I wasn't really looking to debate whether one government has done better than the other. Simply refuting the suggestion that had Corbyn and Labour been voted in everything would automatically be rosy now.
 
Ok, the PM got tested. Fine. Not a problem with that. But the majority of the spanners on this thread seem to be ignoring the main component of the annoyance behind most of the comments which is that front line NHS staff can't get the tests.

Or have we gone back to ignoring the NHS after clapping outside our houses for a minute last night?
Grumble grumble
 
Mr Pigeon said:
Ok, the PM got tested. Fine. Not a problem with that. But the majority of the spanners on this thread seem to be ignoring the main component of the annoyance behind most of the comments which is that front line NHS staff can't get the tests.

Or have we gone back to ignoring the NHS after clapping outside our houses for a minute last night?
Grumble grumble
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What the feck is your problem mate?
 
DOTA said:
If the mods decide that's not a thing we can say, I'll take the hit.

If pretty much everyone else decides it's not a thing we should say, I'll shut up and not say things like it again.

I personally don't think it's an inappropriate level of coldness towards our leaders during a worldwide crisis that endangers pretty much all of us.
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I am staggered how many people are removing all doubt when taking to their keyboards in this thread.
 
UncleBob said:
Down to inches ?

In Norway it's only been used to track the effects of the lockdown, showing a major difference in activity outside.
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Wouldn't need to be for those in rural environments living on acres of land. I'm more interested than complaining, i like seeing big data used and i imagine they'll learn a lot through such data for future pandemics.
 
Regulus Arcturus Black said:
When you start invoking the Don, your argument is a shit one.
You think Boris dying would make the Don any less of a braindead egomaniac ?
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I don't really know what you want me to say here? You're arguing bringing up of Trump makes my argument shit and yet you want me to clarify how I think American policy would be affected if a world leader their populace were familiar with were to die?
 
DOTA said:
I don't really know what you want me to say here? You're arguing bringing up of Trump makes my argument shit and yet you want me to clarify how I think American policy would be affected if a world leader their populace were familiar with were to die?
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Sorry, you’re right.

We should all Hope Boris Johnson dies so that the idiot part of America and Donald Trump completely change their personalities.
 
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I pieced together most of the England map to just see it properly for myself. If you zoom out one click more on the gov.uk map it becomes one large useless blue circle.

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Regulus Arcturus Black said:
Sorry, you’re right.

We should all Hope Boris Johnson dies so that the idiot part of America and Donald Trump completely change their personalities.
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I don't think it's that interesting a conversation, and I don't want to bore people by dominating the thread with my inflammatory comment. But, yes, I think both Trump and Trump voters would behave differently.
 
What the hell did I just read over the last few pages? This thread has been overall mostly level headed and informative, but the questioning of whether the freaking head of a government should be tested if he shows symptoms is just bizarre.

I don´t think that it was Johnsons right to be tested, but his fecking obligation. Not only is it the harsh truth that his personal health und ability to function is more important to the general puclic than others, the virus is not only a danger to him but to the he was in contact with the last few weeks, which is probably the majority of your current executive branch. If the spread can not be traced and contained you can find yourself with a crippled government in a few days. in a time when swift political actions can save hundreds, if not thousands of lives, such a scenario would be a freaking desaster....
 
Matt Hancock tests positive too. I imagine half the Cabinet must have it by now
 
Garethw said:
It really is crazy isn’t it. Any world leader would be exactly the same.

Also, people might hate the royal family but do they honestly think that the future king of this country is not going to get tested when he has corona virus symptoms?
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It’s crazy that at a time like this everyone is not questioning why people get preferential treatment.
 
Sphaero said:
What the hell did I just read over the last few pages? This thread has been overall mostly level headed and informative, but the questioning of whether the freaking head of a government should be tested if he shows symptoms is just bizarre.

I don´t think that it was Johnsons right to be tested, but his fecking obligation. Not only is it the harsh truth that his personal health und ability to function is more important to the general puclic than others, the virus is not only a danger to him but to the he was in contact with the last few weeks, which is probably the majority of your current executive branch. If the spread can not be traced and contained you can find yourself with a crippled government in a few days. in a time when swift political actions can save hundreds, if not thousands of lives, such a scenario would be a freaking desaster....
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Well met, Sphaero.

How's everything in Potsdam?
 
Woodzy said:
Call me a conspiracy theorist but part of me thinks that Boris is stupid enough to like about testing positive about corona virus, self isolate as a result in the hope that because he's doing it the entire nation will see it as a inspiration to follow.

Probably just has it though, but I need something to keep me amused in this dark times
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This is pretty obvious imo

Didn't cough once either.
 
Sounds like they should have done a better job of washing their hands
 
Some people might find it funny that Matt Hancock has caught it. I think anyone who can find schadenfreude in situations like this are absolutely terrible, awful, horrible, nasty people and almost as bad as the type people who can't spot sarcasm in posts like these.
 
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