Coronavirus compendium thread

10 Gary Rowells said:
Surely its only older people and those with underlying conditions will need a ventilator. The young and the fit who contract this virus will probably only feel mild symptoms like a mild flu.

We haven't even felt the start of this in the UK and people are desperate to apportion blame. There appears to be no right or wrong way of dealing with this and the 'experts' are not coming out with uniformed advice. Yet, many on here just want to use this awful virus to bash our politicians. It's sad that this appears to be the main desire of many.
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37 year old marathon runner in Italy just recovered, been on a ventilator for 3 weeks. At the time he may not have been prioritised but possibly would be now. Uk experts exploring the genetic side of this as clearly some perfectly healthy people could be knacked by the virus (hopefully it's a very small percentage of folk with a predisposition, if there is a genetic angle at play at all)
 


Nothing like a panic over a bad dose of the flu

absolutely ridiculous

this thread represents everything bad about modern day society. Panicking.

The note a few of the usual left wingers taking their opportunity to have a pop at trump and boris
 
Mad Man said:
I have a 24 pack of Aldi toilet rolls ..... Looking to swap for a 4 bedroom bungalow.

Russia, which closed most of its border ports back in January, has registered just 20 coronavirus cases, many of them Russians returning from Italy, and zero deaths.
At the end of January, Russia announced it had closed the entirety of its 2,600-mile border with China. Moscow also asked all returning citizens to self-quarantine and banned Chinese citizens from entering the country.
The result is that Russia has avoided the kind of panic that has gripped numerous other European countries with porous borders, most notably Italy (ruled by a left-wing open borders government) which now has 9,172 coronavirus cases and has recorded 463 deaths. -infowars
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It’s easier to get people to do what you want when the punishment for not self isolating is a bullet to the brain mind
 
garyswc said:
37 year old marathon runner in Italy just recovered, been on a ventilator for 3 weeks. At the time he may not have been prioritised but possibly would be now. Uk experts exploring the genetic side of this as clearly some perfectly healthy people could be knacked by the virus (hopefully it's a very small percentage of folk with a predisposition, if there is a genetic angle at play at all)
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Just cos you're a fitness freak, it doesn't mean you can't have a weakened immunity system. In fact, excessive physical activity can actually damage it. What was he doing in China, was he staying somewhere higher than Mont Blanc and then trying to run marathons every day or summit daft like that

Plus a fitness freak would tend to try to ignore the first signs of illness, and if this is the doctor who infected the bed-ridden OAPs, he would have been able to self-medicate and suppress the symptoms until his body basically just collapsed.

Hence the several weeks on a ventilator ...
 
10 Gary Rowells said:
Yes, I heard someone talking about the Ebola outbreaks suggesting that at the time there were more Malaria deaths as their health services, which were not comparable to ours and under massive strain concentrated on Ebola so that Malaria patients were neglected and so they died when they may have ordinarily saved. It appears that this is almost unprecedented for countries like the UK and the professionals can only guess on spread. They want to smooth the spike as they don't want the NHS overwhelmed and particularly have high absence of NHS staff. Yet, people on here are interested in how they can blame our PM for this? Just shows how petty some people are.
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Ironic factor is that Corbyn would have take exactly the same course of action as Boris as it isn’t really the PM making these decisions, he’s being guided by various experts in the field who will be giving him the information and guiding towards a particular option.
 
samaistonsrightfoot said:
A top UK scientist who led the UK on the Ebola virus outbreak was on the radio today saying the government is taking to long to act. Said the only way to stop breakouts like this is to 'act fast but governments don't like to do that'.
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Careful lad, I got shouted at for mentioning Ebola outbreaks have so far been fairly well contained even though it has crossed borders and reached population centers.
 
My Boy Harry said:
Nothing like a panic over a bad dose of the flu

absolutely ridiculous

this thread represents everything bad about modern day society. Panicking.

The note a few of the usual left wingers taking their opportunity to have a pop at trump and boris
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A bad dose of the flu can kill someone with underlying health problems and/or is elderly. Hence why we have flu jabs. There isn’t a vaccine for this virus yet.

Nobody is expecting this to wipe out millions, but a lot of vulnerable people could come a cropper if it isn’t properly contained.

Not that I’d expect you to give a shit.
 
Botchie said:
My opinion (and I'm not claiming to be an expert) is that Europe is at its peak now, with Italy the epicentre. I don't think we'll see the levels of infection the Italians have now they've locked the country down.
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Think your head is firmly in the sand unfortunately mate
skullmeister said:
Me too. At this stage too little is being done, I fear that in a months time we are likely to be in complete lockdown like Italy is now.
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There’s a good graph posted on here from Twitter a few pages back which trends all of the countries and how far behind Italy we are. All are on an identical trajectory and claimed we were 13.5 days behind Italy. So expect lockdown around the 20th March orso
 
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Botchie said:
My opinion (and I'm not claiming to be an expert) is that Europe is at its peak now, with Italy the epicentre. I don't think we'll see the levels of infection the Italians have now they've locked the country down.
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I think we will almost certainly see similar levels in a week or two.

As for lockdown, airports are still open, train stations, roads, shops, cafes, supermarkets... People are still going from A to B. It's far from lockdown in the true sense.
 
tynevalleyblackcat said:
Our claim was circa £75,000. I estimate that as the costs were all kept in house by the insurance company, but I was copied in on a schedule of works by the main contractor which put their bill at £45,000 and that excluded any hotel bills, house rental, removal costs (x three) as some of our stuff originally went into storage and then was assesd and mostly replaced as new. They gave us cash for clothes and shoes etc that had been damaged.

To be fair, I don't like to advertise, but I was massively impressed by what they did for us, so without naming any names, you should go direct.


It was an example mate. Unlike you, I did not check the fixtures before posting. Would you prefer Crawley v Macclesfield? ;)
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Not really arsed about league two tbh mate
 
Something I don’t think I’ve seen covered yet.

If Atol only take £2.50 for each package holiday. I don’t think it will be possible to cover the numbers effected if a wholesale travel ban comes in.

I feel there are going to be a lot of people thinking they are covered when in reality they won’t be.
 

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