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Watch some coronavirus porn and erupt? Might help with sleepingUnsurprisingly, I can't bloody sleep. Despite being the temperature of a volcano.
Watch some coronavirus porn and erupt? Might help with sleepingUnsurprisingly, I can't bloody sleep. Despite being the temperature of a volcano.
I'm not a doctor but since the virus broke out in Japan I've been following precautions that are bothersome but if you do them, you cut your chances of getting it.My mother is in her late 50's, has smoked since her teens and works for a Home Help, so goes to elderly peoples' houses all day, attends to them, does their shopping, returns and moves onto an other elderly person.
Somehow, it only hit me today how scary that prospect is. I asked her if she was still carrying out her job the same as always foolishly assuming she'd say no they've made loads of changes.. she just paused and said 'yeah, mask and gloves' seemingly disappointed that I'd finally realised how dangerous her situation is, as well as the elderly people she's visiting.
As an above comment says, I think we're all starting to think specifically about our loved ones and how they fare.
If it is true and the child had no underlying health condition it would be the first U9 to die. So thankfully the risks are much lower for the very young.I think a seven year old child died of Covid in Brazil today. I'm struggling to validate the sources, and I do not yet know if this should be a worldwide concern or just a random exception, but I nevertheless must share my concerns/advice, as scary and crude as they may be:
- Children can kill their grandparents
- In the (admittedly very low) chance your child may suffer health cmplications...
- She will be alone most of the time. You cannot, like in other paedriatic diseases, accompany your child during internment
- They may get critically ill and die, and you're unlikely to be able to have a 'proper burial', maybe even parents will not be able to attend.
This post is so alarming to the point of seeming embarrassing to me. Yet I still feel is my duty to let you know.
Odds are an interesting thing. One month ago, I would have bet all my spare money that Liverpool will win the Premiership. However, I wouldn't bet my house, nor my mother's health.
These things, however unlikely would be to lose them, are far too important to me. Please think like me when you're handling your friends, children and family.
This isn't the flu. Stop comparing it to the damn flu.Who said that? I'm stating facts not predictions. On average 600,000 people die every year in the UK. A lot of people that die of covid19 would be among the deaths this year without covid19. There would be an overlap, even Patrick Valance admitted this.
= they infect you, you die they live..."you might die" =??
Double? I'd be surprised if there isn't ten times the infection that we've confirmed. People really shouldn't be too focused on the mortality rate. There are much bigger challenges to this virus than that.The global mortality rate is up to 4.35% now..
Even if there are double the number of cases... half people being asymptomatic .. its still well above 2%.. and that is with around 10K people in critical condition .. and hospitals just about reaching full capacity..
It's not getting better anytime soon, is it?
It’s barely started, and it’s WAY too early to be talking about relaxing measure in the near future. Realistically we’re looking at months not weeks of controls, and yes the most vulnerable need to be looked after (in this case mentally vulnerable too), but there’s inevitably going to be hardship ahead that we have to deal with.I think that’s a bit too black & white. Eventually some form of normality has to come back to life or mentally & economically the country can’t cope at a certain point.
It’s just where that line is, I agree in the near future when safer to do so after everyone is being sensible with social distancing for now is to get those less at risk & not showing symptoms somehow back to normality.
This can’t go on indefinitely
Maybe over East but the cretins here still have 2 hours left to get the last session in...Australia's pubs, bars, gyms, restaurants and the like are closing in 40 mins time.
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Is there an update on your colleague mate?My colleague's just gone to hospital with breathing difficulties after we just got back from the south of China
Pretty deadly it would seem.How deadly is a virus that kills around 15 people in what I imagine has been around 1 month since onset?
Sadly I believe that statistics shared by the chinese are most likely false, the true number of the mortality rate will emerge here in Europe.The global mortality rate is up to 4.35% now..
Even if there are double the number of cases... half people being asymptomatic .. its still well above 2%.. and that is with around 10K people in critical condition .. and hospitals just about reaching full capacity..
It's not getting better anytime soon, is it?
Just pure stupidity and greed.
I think having a major war/invasion on their homefront helps. Common ground.Yes, yes they are.
Also job losses could be a factor. And there's more tha one servie provider (or at least there was back in 2003), so it would need to be checked with the other one too.Doesn't really mean a lot this data, most consumers in China's have more than one mobile airtime subscription, you've also got the fact that if you're home bound then you don't need anything else other than WiFi. To try to correlate this to a death count doesn't take the full picture into account.
wants Amber Rudd to call him a naughty boyHonestly, where did this idea that the Brits love freedom and couldn't cope with being ordered around come from? We're famous for queuing and we're the most surveilled country in the world. We love authoritarianism.
Replace Johnson's daily address with a series of stern but attractive men and women telling us what to do and we'd all be too horny to leave the house anyway.
Okay she's definitely got it ffs. Still not stopping and it's so loud.My housemate has been coughing quite aggressively for the last 20 minutes or so. I can hear her from my room
AgreedDouble? I'd be surprised if there isn't ten times the infection that we've confirmed. People really shouldn't be too focused on the mortality rate. There are much bigger challenges to this virus than that.
Does a flatmate count as somebody you live with?Okay she's definitely got it ffs. Still not stopping and it's so loud.
I was multiplying the official numbers by 100 to begin with, which puts Britain at about half a million, but more recently I've read some estimates of a million plus in the United Kingdom already. We'll never truly know I guess.Double? I'd be surprised if there isn't ten times the infection that we've confirmed. People really shouldn't be too focused on the mortality rate. There are much bigger challenges to this virus than that.
We can do antibody tests later on that will confirm the infection rate fairly accurately.I was multiplying the official numbers by 100 to begin with, which puts Britain at about half a million, but more recently I've read some estimates of a million plus in the United Kingdom already. We'll never truly know I guess.
If it really is true that millions already have it globally, it's both good and bad news. The good news is that the CFR is lower than we thought, and that a vast majority of people suffer only mild symptoms.
The bad news is that an awful lot of people will have already unknowingly spread the disease to the vulnerable and will continue to do so.
Technically yeah I guess. But I have an ensuite, and I don't use any of the shared facilities in the house - which is basically a kitchen.Does a flatmate count as somebody you live with?
If so, 14 days isolation for you buddy.
As the blurb says on their website:I'm not usually one for conspiracy theories but what does everyone else make of ID2020 and Bill Gates' involvement in it?
I think I might have that.Ha, thanks, mate. Seriously though, it's more likely that I'm suffering from hypochondria.
Yeah but you use the same entrance and exit presumably? You'll flick the light on and off, touch the door handles. Incidentally, I was paying attention to what I touch in the house and I've fecking gave up after a while -- it started giving an anxiety because I was literally touching fecking everything without realising really.Technically yeah I guess. But I have an ensuite, and I don't use any of the shared facilities in the house - which is basically a kitchen.
It's still going btw. She works for the NHS (not a doctor or nurse) so I guess she they are quite likely.
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Mate, my maths is probably the level of a primary school kid. I've no idea. I just assumed he right.his maths is wrong isn't it?
it would be more than 14 as you're multiplying the 1.4s and not adding them
don't think it would be much higher though, so the overall point still stands
his maths is wrong isn't it?
it would be more than 14 as you're multiplying the 1.4s and not adding them
don't think it would be much higher though, so the overall point still stands
it works for 1.3 (he said 1.3 or 1.4)his maths is wrong isn't it?
it would be more than 14 as you're multiplying the 1.4s and not adding them
don't think it would be much higher though, so the overall point still stands
He was using 1.3 =13.79his maths is wrong isn't it?
it would be more than 14 as you're multiplying the 1.4s and not adding them
don't think it would be much higher though, so the overall point still stands
I think I might have that.
So sad to read this. Sorry. These are hard times.My grandpa, 93 was admitted to hospital on Saturday with a very high temperature. Just had results and he has tested positive for Covid 19. Death sentence most likely
Really worried for my mum and dad now who were there to try and help him up when he had collapsed.