You should see our confinement here, it would make you blow a gasket but at the same time I understand that some countries (3rd world countries) and confinement is a sad utopia. When I see the death tolls in some countries with better health systems and better confinement, I'm mentally preparing for the death of many people I know, families and friends, mine possibly too of course.
SARS CoV-2 coronavirus / Covid-19 (No tin foil hat silliness please)
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well at least he left pizzas for everyone else, quite considerate I would say.
We’re supposed to be staying at home he will probably be in again tomorrow as well think it’s very inconsiderate
He's been told he can shop once a day, that's government guidelines. I pulled up on the car park of my local Asda and gave up when I saw the length of the queues.
I haven't been to the grocery store in two weeks. I went today and had a cart full. One older fellow walked by me while I was waiting in line to check out and said "holy shit". I smiled.
Yeah of course but if today is anything to go by then we'd be doing nothing but that all day and there's far too many other things going on to dedicate everything to it. Today for instance a colleague suffered a compound fracture to his arm as someone resisted arrest for another matter and another customer was arrested and charged for assaulting an emergency worker by coughing in their face and telling the officer they were carrying the virus. That's in one small part of the city for a few hours.
Does he need to be told to use common sense as well?
How is it where you are? You'll be okay mate. Vent on here.
Such wonderful people. I'd say you should bust their heads but they'd take up much needed hospital beds.
I hadn’t been since Sunday big change now with social isolating.
That’s what pissed me off the most the queues..
I usually go weekly. So I needed quite a few things.
My wife has another Covid patient. Mid 40s, highly active, no previous health issues... he's on a ventilator. They've already turned an entire small hospital into a Covid ward and now they're turning every room in her ICU and every room in the Medical-Surgical wing next to it into negative pressure rooms. They're down to their last 4 ventilators in the whole hospital.
The last thing she text me was "I'm legitimately scared".
This is a woman who has worked in trauma and ICU wards her entire career. She's seen shit. If she's scared, then it's bad.
The last thing she text me was "I'm legitimately scared".
This is a woman who has worked in trauma and ICU wards her entire career. She's seen shit. If she's scared, then it's bad.
I've been off the past few days so this was my first in since the new changes. fecking exhausted and pissed off with human beings.
I had to go to Tesco as well to get a few things, just called it a day instead to much queues
I'm sure it's not going to get better soon. Thanks for keeping the peace.
I got there around 10am, no issues. When I left a little after 11, there was a line up to get in.
feck sake. I don't know how you keep it together when you come across 'people' like that.
And do you not think that a 30 quid find is a joke of a fine. Hand down £1000 on the spot would work better imo?
Posts like this put the fear of god in me. I really do worry just how bad this is going to get.
Feck. Really hoping your wife stays safe and gets through this without catching the thing. Stay strong man.
Same here.
They received an email last night telling them to conserve PPE and to reuse or not wear proper equipment when treating patients who have something other than Covid-19... So nurses and doctors that are treating patients that don't have it are still going to be at risk of contracting something else and bringing it home.
Same shit as in Europe but just worse in every aspect, supposed lockdown and distancing not respected. For some I just don't get it but for others (the less fortunate, the poorest) there is just no way to distance from one another. The majority of the country is made of small houses with people living in close quarters with their elders. I'm not the type to vent and I apologize if that's how it appeared, I'm mentally preparing for a nightmare is all.
I'm not even gonna mention the NHS here, it's just crazy.
No it isn't. I think people are confusing it with the exercise exception:
The advice is to go as infrequently as possible. If yer fella is just buying one pizza at a time then he isn't following the guidance.
1. Staying at home
You should only leave the house for very limited purposes:
- shopping for basic necessities, for example food and medicine, which must be as infrequent as possible.
That's absolutely fecking appalling to be honest with you. All this whilst the 'defence budget' is through the fecking roof.
As if there wasn’t enough divisiveness already. Granted being in the U.S. and no longer being required to vote in the Belgian elections, I do not follow Belgian politics aside from an occasional glance at some of the insanity.
That would be horrible news for medical professionals, ffs.
This is really the biggest issue because once the medical professionals are incapacitated/die then what?
It's crazy man. I'll hand it to my wife though... she got up and went right into work today, no questions asked. I respect her more than I can put into words.
Seriously WTF ? Not sure how you all hold your nerve in situations like this.
46 doctors now dead in Italy..
China closed its borders now, probably only country in the world that can sustain itself without the need from outside as well. Can they overtake U.S. by the time the dust settles? Ironically, at the beginning of the outbreak, Chinese diplomats have been lobbying western governments not to close them off during the pandemic and only country that stopped direct flights to/from China was Italy...
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Good to see a big drop in deaths from yesterday.
Church is the cure
Nearly 100k infections in the US alone, staggering.
Real scary thought, not like you can just train up doctors at the drop of a hat.
What a fecking shyster!
A girl in front of me queued up at Tesco for 45 minutes to buy one item. Then there were couples (some 65+) shopping together and people with teenagers who should a)Be doing schoolwork and b)old enough not needing to go to the shop with mummy. People are brainless.
And the truth comes out. Reckless family spreading bullshit. She died of a heart attack and had clear underlying issues judging by her Facebook.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...21-year-old-not-recorded-nhs-covid-19-related
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...21-year-old-not-recorded-nhs-covid-19-related
Cumulatively you have at least 500 years of medical training. That's a stupid point that I just made but still.