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

My son got a note from school which had the headline “a case of chickenpox is confirmed in your childs class”

It took me a minute to see the word chickenpox

Then I was like, hang on it’s similar symptoms early on, fever etc. Is there spots? IS THERE SPOTS!? TELL ME THERES DAMN SPOTS!!!
 
Lennon7 said:
Eh? It’s a very real threat. If one person gets it, the people around them get it - then what figure would you deem appropriate before they force people to work from home? 20? 50? 250?

It’s a virus, it spreads very easily. We’re being told it’s very possible we might be forced to stay and work from home if it keeps spreading in the UK. It’s literally the only way to stop it
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We're already past the point where stopping it is a realistic ambition. All the measures now are concentrated on slowing down its spread. This is worthwhile for several reasons:

- there is more time to develop and deploy a vaccine.
- the peak of the infection occurs in the warmer months (less favourable for the virus, and better for the people infected).
- the number of cases at any given point is smaller reducing the impact on health services.

The likelihood is that Covid-19 is something we will all have to learn to live with (in the same way we do with the other types of coronavirus already in existence, or flu). Over time, the virus is likely to have less of an impact as people develop some level of immunity and the virus itself mutates towards generally less threatening forms.
 
Di Maria's angel said:
My colleague returned from China before the outbreak. His parents are in Shanghai but hes very calm about the situation back home. Says there are only a few hundred cases and most have recovered.
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And how is life there in cities like Shanghai at the moment? Normal, restrictive? I see very little reporting about China in our press.
 
11101 said:
It's an increase of 18, not from 18. All were elderley and already ill. None of the 52 have yet been confirmed as dying from the virus as opposed to it being the straw that broke the camels back.

There are 2036 confirmed infections in total. Half have no symptoms.
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My bad. Seemed far too high.
 
Di Maria's angel said:
My colleague returned from China before the outbreak. His parents are in Shanghai but hes very calm about the situation back home. Says there are only a few hundred cases and most have recovered.
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Outside of the zone, life goes on but far from normal. Plus it's not easy to shut down a financial centre like Shanghai. Last I heard they still have a lot of restrictions but not to extent in the zone.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/20/asia/shanghai-coronavirus-china-economy-intl-hnk/index.html
 
Arruda said:
And how is life there in cities like Shanghai at the moment? Normal, restrictive? I see very little reporting about China in our press.
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Will double check with him tomorrow. I do think there are still some restrictions but he doesn't seem overly worried. Although he says the Shanghai's healthcare system is one of the best in the country.
 
Ekkie Thump said:
I gotta say I don't really care if they have a bit of a pray so long as they go on to do something useful. It's the second part that troubles me.
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Those people? Nah, you literally got the first answer in the post immediately below yours.
 
Seriously, if you have a read through this Twitter feed over the last few days, what’s happening in Iran is pretty shocking:

 


It’s not unlikely that a large percentage of the upper echelons of the Iranian regime have the virus by now, and many of them are elderly. Khamenei himself has been reported to be in poor health for years.
 
Still nada in Peru thus far although I don't expect it to stay like that.

Absolutely no way this mega city is prepared for corona.
 
Unstable countries will suffer a lot. Iran is probably the first that comes to light but others will follow is the disease keeps spreading.

I fear the US might be one of those cases, not as bad as those, of course, but might fare significantly worse than other western countries. Remember Katrina. They are not ready, the social institutions to protect the population are not funded enough and even if you throw a pile of cash into them now it's a bit late...
 
Steerpike said:
We're already past the point where stopping it is a realistic ambition. All the measures now are concentrated on slowing down its spread. This is worthwhile for several reasons:

- there is more time to develop and deploy a vaccine.
- the peak of the infection occurs in the warmer months (less favourable for the virus, and better for the people infected).
- the number of cases at any given point is smaller reducing the impact on health services.

The likelihood is that Covid-19 is something we will all have to learn to live with (in the same way we do with the other types of coronavirus already in existence, or flu). Over time, the virus is likely to have less of an impact as people develop some level of immunity and the virus itself mutates towards generally less threatening forms.
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Yeah fair enough, that makes perfect sense. However during these early months I think lots of companies will be closing up, with the general public being encouraged not to use public transport or be in crowded areas
 
Beginning to wonder if this is a Generation Z made super virus crowd funded on Twitch and quietly shared by millions on Tik Tok that has been carefully designed to rip through the worlds Boomer population. Apparently kids are immune.
 
Pexbo said:
Beginning to wonder if this is a Generation Z made super virus crowd funded on Twitch and quietly shared by millions on Tik Tok that has been carefully designed to rip through the worlds Boomer population. Apparently kids are immune.
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I blame the Boomer thread on here. Ever since it was started, COVID 19 started killing older folks. Coincidence?
 
BBC Newsnight painting a pretty bleak picture ahead of the governments press conference tomorrow.
 
Steerpike said:
We're already past the point where stopping it is a realistic ambition. All the measures now are concentrated on slowing down its spread. This is worthwhile for several reasons:

- there is more time to develop and deploy a vaccine.
- the peak of the infection occurs in the warmer months (less favourable for the virus, and better for the people infected).
- the number of cases at any given point is smaller reducing the impact on health services.

The likelihood is that Covid-19 is something we will all have to learn to live with (in the same way we do with the other types of coronavirus already in existence, or flu). Over time, the virus is likely to have less of an impact as people develop some level of immunity and the virus itself mutates towards generally less threatening forms.
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If this becomes an annual virus, they're going to have to come up with a name that doesn't sound like something from resident evil.
 
Abizzz said:
Because unlike death infection isn't inevitable and risk of it can be greatly reduced. Rather have closed restaraunts and bars and x deaths or closed everything and many more deaths?

And if bars and restaurants are closed there's no way the top leagues can continue so we can all forget about the past 8 months of football and start fresh when it's all over.
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I'm all for scrapping the league. Sometimes you just need to think about the greater good.
 
Shit is getting out of hand now

 
Di Maria's angel said:
Number of cases has gone by 300% in the UK in one week. We could have 100-200 confirmed cases by the end of the week. By why bother taking action now? Death happens anyway.
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:lol:I feel that's aimed at me. I just don't agree with closing shops and restaurants down, spreading panic and chaos.
 
Went to go and buy some hand sanitizer today. Everywhere had sold out. Even Amazon putting prices up crazy high.
 
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