The two strategies - China style suppression vs UK style mitigation have been modelled by MRC Centre for Global Infectious disease at Imperial. Well worth a look:
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feckit - I'm off to play some PES 5. Thank you
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Did you meet Sophie Gregoire-Trudeau, too?
It'll be fine for a couple of weeks.
But you can bet that every single policy maker is thinking about the 2011 Manchester/London riots in the forefront of their minds. The kids who ran riot back then are the same demographic that is going to be least affected by the virus, and will therefore get the most agitated about why they're being forced to stay at home.
I think we're quite likely to see looting at some point. And crowd control from the authorities in response. I'd support that being in a rubber bullet format.
15k in another two weeks? That's frightening.
I'm hoping they're just predicting the absolute worst case scenario and it'll actually be far less than that.
A member of my family had exactly what is described in the post you replied to, at about the same time. Late Dec, early Jan. Bed ridden for 5 or so days with exactly the same coronavirus symptoms.
My mum said they sent over 30 kids from school home today. A lot of them with coughs.
Aye, he also said we can expect a 30% daily increase in cases over the next few weeks which (if my quick maths is correct) would see us fall short of 15k? My maths might be terrible though.
NHS workers showing symptoms sent home without testing, people arriving from hotspots strolling through the airports without any testing and people possibly having the virus but won’t be tested unless bad enough to be hospitalised. The UK is an absolute shitshow right now.
Clusterfeck Trump press conference on sky news now. Trump passing every question on.
This is important. I mowed the lawn and cleaned my car today and it was a big help in taking my mind off stuff for a couple of hours.
The whole "I am young and healthy, I should just get it and move on" is bullshit. Do not gamble with your (and other people's) lives. Try to stay at home and not get it / not spread it, for as long as you can.
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This shit should seriously be criminal. As far as I know, there are laws criminalizing such behavior in case of STD, but I guess nothing for non-STD communicable diseases. If that is true, we are missing some laws, clearly.
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Someone said this to me at work today, not that long after he said he was looking forward to visiting his gran at the weekend. Twat.The whole "I am young and healthy, I should just get it and move on" is bullshit. Do not gamble with your (and other people's) lives. Try to stay at home and not get it / not spread it, for as long as you can.
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That is insane. Not to be dramatic about it, but how is that different from attempted murder? Like - seriously?
Apparently people were buying the baby milk formula due to the long life milk being sold out, because y'know it's not like people with babies will need it....
That 1 was released by the Welsh as they had there first death.
Ireland are one of a small number of countries that haven’t updated there cases today does anyone know why or when ?
There's no intent to it, in his case he's just incredibly self-absorbed and not able to see that he can affect others worse than himself. But I worry how many of those people there are about. Lockdown will be a relief at this point.
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If you think the UK is a shitshow, you should probably look at the rest of the West for comparison. Which major European country would you rather be living in to see this one out? We're doing a better or comparable amount of testing to most, and still getting a very high proportion of negative tests. No healthcare system in this part of the world has any experience of something like this and is equipped to deal with it.
Dr William Hanage is a professor of the evolution and epidemiology of infectious disease at Harvard...
He says it only makes to talk about generating "herd immunity" for vaccines, not an actual pandemic.
Okay, yeah, that's enough internet for me today.
Checking in to say that 2nd week of December I had a flu type thing aswell, first time in my adult life having something that bad.
I had zero energy, a raging fever (Was just on the edge of fainting one evening), and had to get on the codeine to deal with the amount of pain my chest was in from coughing all night.
I hate my generation. Full of absolute fecking bellends like this. Nuke them.
Fecking hell
So home now after a steady day. I was indeed Covid-19 triaging today. Only 13 patients to see, none admitted into hospital so none were tested however, I suspect one had it from travel history and previous contact with others and sore throat as only symptom. Was sent home. Still annoyed by some people who are coming in and ignoring the self isolation instructions. I suspect there will be more confirmed cases at my turst tomorrow/wed as test results start coming back from some of the in-patients admitted. Anyway shower, bed and back to it tomorrow. Luckily I won't be triaging tomorrow.
@Berbasbullet So sorry to hear this, my thoughts are with you and your loved ones in these difficult times.
@Berbasbullet So sorry to hear this, my thoughts are with you and your loved ones in these difficult times.
Cheers everyone! I didn’t know the guy too well to be honest, but obviously my partner is in bits.
online clout is still a currency. Gotta get those views somehow!
Interesting... I know a few people that had the 'worst flu ever' from late December on.
What a bunch of morons
That's disgusting on so many levels, caronavirus or not.
Speechless. Time for bed me thinks.
got to get those views and retweets to feed the ego
It is but I’m not sure it invalidates the strategy. What it does mean is they need to get much more capacity into the health services and fast.
Let’s hope she dies quickly before she can infect anyone vulnerable. Stupid cnut.
Problem keeping schools open is it kind of unravels when a few teachers take ill. Reminds me how they tried to keep the football going in UK and Germany actually, it's fine until a player is ill and tests positive and it crumbles pretty fast. Teachers and head teachers are often 50-65 years of age and are a risk.
If what is also true about the Italy data recently, young people might be carrying higher levels, did someone read into it? Thought it was suggesting that but please check, I'm not saying this is the case.
If what is also true about the Italy data recently, young people might be carrying higher levels, did someone read into it? Thought it was suggesting that but please check, I'm not saying this is the case.