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

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Well I got my Mum a lovely bunch of flowers for her birthday today and we had chocolate cake and she was so excited to clap for the NHS as she used to work in the service. I think she had a memorable birthday with her favourite child.
That's nice I bet she's happy to have you there, especially given the circumstance. I thought Hextable Harry was her favourite.
 

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You should check and make sure that guy isn't in your back garden again.
He's being responsible and self isolating, he's standing in his own garden.

Wasn't helped by the fact someone round here decided to blast a recording of air raid sirens.
:lol: Yeah I can imagine that would have added a bit of a weird atmosphere.
 

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Yep, can carry on working and almost double up on income.
Yes, this is the odd part for me, they have clearly said this is allowed, so if you can work safely still then you would be a fool not to claim this aswell, not because you're a greedy bugger, but because it would be impossible to say that just as this might not be affecting your income right now (back orders, etc), that it won't do in six months time, when this scheme hopefully won't be available anymore, but business could well be very different.
 

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So I was in the hospital working when everyone just started to clap at 8. Some might think it's silly but it really does boost moral with the nurses.
 

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In a beautiful town in South Africa there is a tiny pharmacy.

We are going under a 21-day lockdown in less than an hour. This pharmacy has been packed for the last three days. At the dispensary there is an old man who was initially retrenched several months ago due to his age (73-75). He was asked to come and assist again in these mad times, probably thankful to lend a hand. He literally stands for 9 painful hours a day, smiles at everyone and exposes his frail self to all these germs.

While I was in there I heard at least three people with persistent coughs.

This old man is a hero. If I could I'd be clapping to show my appreciation. Here's to you old, nameless man!
 

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I hope those fighting NHS workers for flour and toilet paper first thing in the morning clapped the most.

Anyway, we are on pretty much on same percentage of deaths like last night. 525 605 cases, 23 711 deaths, that's still 4,5%, as yesterday.
Bit worrying considering you expect number of tested/infected to grow quicker than the deaths. I will follow this regulary at this time of day only with hope of it becoming far more positive in next few days/weeks.
 
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I'm really getting sick of the fecking misery-guts cnuts in this thread.
To be fair, it’s an odd choice of thread to look for anything other than misery in fairness, hardly gonna be full of comments like “only ten gone Ireland today, less than a dozen, top stuff”.

Hopefully in a few weeks we’ll start seeing some numbers to be pleased about, but almost certain to get worse before it gets better.
 
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Okay I'm watching contagion on ITV2. Creepiest film I've ever seen.
 

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I’ve been feeling bad about how much I participated in kick-starting the whole Sweden debacle, so it’s really nice that somebody out there appreciated it :)
Yeah it was fascinating stuff mate.

Personally hoping the conversation next drifts towards bricklaying as i wouldn't mind a few pointers for building a wall in my back garden to pass the time while i'm in quarantine.
 

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I hope those fighting NHS workers for flour and toilet paper first thing in the morning clapped the most.

Anyway, we are on pretty much on same percentage of deaths like last night. 525 605 cases, 23 711 deaths, that's still 4,5%, as yesterday.
Bit worrying considering you expect number of tested/infected to grow quicker than the deaths. I will follow this regulary at this time of day only with hope of it becoming far more positive in next few days/weeks.
Worldometer does that for you I think
 

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For those keeping score, the USA is now the worst affected nation on the planet. They overtook China a day before Italy was due to do it. They just cant be second best at anything can they :rolleyes:
 

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There was another video of municipal officials conducting a surprise check on a grocery store to check if they were not jacking up the prices of essential commodities. The policemen patrolling swung into action and whacked the hell out of the officials for breaking quarantine and standing so close to each other.
 

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For those keeping score, the USA is now the worst affected nation on the planet. They overtook China a day before Italy was due to do it. They just cant be second best at anything can they :rolleyes:
'Worst-affected nation on the planet! Thank you, Rasmussen!'
 

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For those keeping score, the USA is now the worst affected nation on the planet. They overtook China a day before Italy was due to do it. They just cant be second best at anything can they :rolleyes:
"Nobody has done this Chinese virus as well as we have. Tremendous numbers all around."
 

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There was another video of municipal officials conducting a surprise check on a grocery store to check if they were not jacking up the prices of essential commodities. The policemen patrolling swung into action and whacked the hell out of the officials for breaking quarantine and standing so close to each other.
A high end grocery store in Toronto was caught selling Lysol wipes for $30. The Premier of the Province was livid and called them out in his daily press conference. Hope he shuts them down the cnuts.
 

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For those keeping score, the USA is now the worst affected nation on the planet. They overtook China a day before Italy was due to do it. They just cant be second best at anything can they :rolleyes:
Go Team
 

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For those keeping score, the USA is now the worst affected nation on the planet. They overtook China a day before Italy was due to do it. They just cant be second best at anything can they :rolleyes:
Would be a useful statistic in the coming elections
 

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Should we be more worried about the US?
Why would we need to be worried about a country with a completely screwed up healthcare system, an almost total lack of testing, and a population who think they know best and refuse to be told what to do?
 

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For those keeping score, the USA is now the worst affected nation on the planet. They overtook China a day before Italy was due to do it. They just cant be second best at anything can they :rolleyes:
I feel like a more useful metric would be positives per test per capita.
 

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Why would we need to be worried about a country with a completely screwed up healthcare system, an almost total lack of testing, and a population who think they know best and refuse to be told what to do?
Also a country full of people who've spent their lives fantasising about how their guns will save them when public order collapses.
 

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Apparently in France more than 60% of people in ICU are above 65 years old, that age group also represents more than 90% of the deceased.
 

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Guy on RTE saying go online and spend, spend, spend so as to keep the economy going.
I would of thought it otherwise be careful with your money as you don’t know what’s going to happen.
 

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I guess you've checked the overview list on:
https://www.asthma.org.uk/advice/triggers/coronavirus-covid-19/
It seems fairly specific on the drugs/dosages that mean someone's automatically in that high risk group.
Thanks. Gone further with my GP and have been told im not serve enough to be on the list. Which is worrying me because I know at my worst Im at risk more than the average person. Seems like I might have to go back to working a job that isnt strictly important as I'd struggle getting no money. Athlough im sure im not the only one in that boat .