COVID-19 Coronavirus

Tim said:
If anyone wants any crisps, cocktail sausages, or sausage rolls, please give me a shout. I misread the headlines and been picnic buying 🙈
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Bring them round and we will watch I am legend 👍. Just don't bring corona with u 😂
 
It looks like the UK governemt are going for the herd tactic in dealing with this virus. What a gamble. It needs 70% of the UK to get infected to work properly.
 
SkyPipDotBernie said:
It looks like the UK governemt are going for the herd tactic in dealing with this virus. What a gamble. It needs 70% of the UK to get infected to work properly.
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More like 60%, it's risky, but - if it does work then it's a stroke of genius, whatever people may feel of our political leadership, they are currently working on the scientific advice, based on our planning from 2011 of a repeat of an influenza pandemic: https://assets.publishing.service.g...ads/attachment_data/file/213717/dh_131040.pdf

Political descisions do of course need to be made, but I can see no deviation from the plan outlined. The plan, once read, probably explains several areas of frustration with things that other countries have done, but we've not. It is evidence based, it may end up being wrong, but as others have said on the matter, it's definately too clever by half for Boris to have winged it.
 
From what I've read, the plan is to keep all old people in isolation either at home or lockdown in care homes and then the low risk people just to keep washing hands and following the basic precautions, and then people with health issues that have weakened immune systems will get priority in hospitals. It's just schools I'm wondering if they should be closed yet. I do think that will be the next thing
 
SkyPipDotBernie said:
From what I've read, the plan is to keep all old people in isolation either at home or lockdown in care homes and then the low risk people just to keep washing hands and following the basic precautions, and then people with health issues that have weakened immune systems will get priority in hospitals. It's just schools I'm wondering if they should be closed yet. I do think that will be the next thing
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Well, it's sort of evolved given the current threat, the basic premise was that it's impossible for us to stop any pandemic, as it won't originate here, so there was always the assumption that it'd pop up in lots of clusters, so we couldn't possibly focus on just the one area, like in China. We're in the delay phase, and with this virus, for most younger people it's not a major health issue, the plan has evolved to a degree now in that younger people are free to move about, but the greatest strain on resources will be the elderly, which was always going to be the situation, the plan does mention rationing care based on an outcomes judgement, and it does mention that there is always going to be excess mortality, whatever we do, which is why all the scare stories about bodybags has come out. But ultimately, the idea is that those of us that can take this virus in our stride, keep the country going, leaving the elderly the healthcare resources that they need. It may work, or it may not, but it's certainly a far better thought out plan than just locking everyone up for six months and hoping for the best.

I really just worry for the US, the entire system there is counterintuitive for taking care of this sort of situation. In the Uk we're scaling back testing (as per the plan), as there's no real benefit at this point, as resources can be better delployed to other areas (we know where it is, and we know that there's now self-sustaining community spread). In the US the CDC decided to go with their own test to reduce false negatives, but their production process ran into difficulties so they're really far behind on testing, at this point they're really in the sherbert, if you add to it the funding mechanism for healthcare, the issue is probably several orders of magnitude more serious than ours, and even then, who pays for the care of the sick? The 1918 flu pandemic was one of the reasons for the existance of the NHS in the first place, but in the US, however much we may struggle to meet the extra demand, what can the sick expect there?
 
There are now 2 confirmed cases in Doncaster according to my local village facebook page. Coronavirus hysteria & theories are now splashed across half of my facebook friends wall so now facebook isn't doing my anxiety any favours!
 
Sar said:
There are now 2 confirmed cases in Doncaster according to my local village facebook page. Coronavirus hysteria & theories are now splashed across half of my facebook friends wall so now facebook isn't doing my anxiety any favours!
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I'm afraid media coverage has made a serious situation far worse . I won't even repeat what I heard on the radio this morning .


Lee has started a thread with links to reliable information threads

Coronavirus COVID-19 Country Specific Infomation
 
furryfriends (TEAS) said:
What are all your thoughts on this explanation?

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The nhs almost left me to die back in 2018 when my appendix ruptured through waiting too long to have the operation back in March of 2018. They couldn't cope with the waiting list back then, even though I was an emergency. I was laying in the bed thinking I'm going to die. The pain was out of this world until I got morphine. A nurse told me after the op, how lucky I was that I survived, the inside of my body had filled up with infection, I got the op just before it posined my blood stream
 
So, I have not long returned from my Sunday morning food shop - I go food shopping every Sunday at 10am, Lidl then Morrisons - WHAT CAN I SAY.........

I knew it would be bad as soon as there were no parking spaces in Lidl.... Managed to get one, I have a disabled badge and they were all full today.... As you walked in, no bread loafs..... absolutely full of people! Luckily today I didn't need much .... Morrison's next - car park verging on full..... Very busy again and then queues down each aisle similar to what you would experience in the run up to Christmas....

I was glad to get home and away from it all......
 
artcasper said:
So, I have not long returned from my Sunday morning food shop - I go food shopping every Sunday at 10am, Lidl then Morrisons - WHAT CAN I SAY.........

I knew it would be bad as soon as there were no parking spaces in Lidl.... Managed to get one, I have a disabled badge and they were all full today.... As you walked in, no bread loafs..... absolutely full of people! Luckily today I didn't need much .... Morrison's next - car park verging on full..... Very busy again and then queues down each aisle similar to what you would experience in the run up to Christmas....

I was glad to get home and away from it all......
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Morrisons Northampton yesterday was like it was christmas eve. It was that busy that you could feel how stuffy the air was inside the shop. Empty shelfes everywhere, I managed to get 6 jam doughnuts just to make myself feel better 🤣
 
SkyPipDotBernie said:
Morrisons Northampton yesterday was like it was christmas eve. It was that busy that you could feel how stuffy the air was inside the shop. Empty shelfes everywhere, I managed to get 6 jam doughnuts just to make myself feel better 🤣
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Dont blame you! I would love a doughnut right now but not seen any gluten free ones 🙈🙈🙈
 
We went in hunt of puppy food today, empty shelves had to get Callie a different brand, at the end of the day food is food 🙈
 
Claire W said:
I’m proper stressing out about food and stuff :( We managed time get some toilet rolls yesterday for us and my parents but it’s getting ridiculous :(

My anxiety is through the roof about losing loved ones too :( Think I’ll stop watching media coverage
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Buy barroca multivitamin dissolvable tablets ( you can get tesco own) loads of oats and something for more protein like powder you add to water. Like body builder drink. That's the only option I'm left with if I don't see any pasta or rice in soon
 
Still not seeing much panic buying in Liverpool, no toilet rolls in Asda but everything else was in stock- and our lovely corner shop owner says he keeps checking what Asda might have run out of then buying extra of that from the cash'n'carry so its a win-win situation for us and for Sayid from the corner shop, we got 12 toilet rolls from him yesterday that we can eat during the pandemic plus all our usual shopping :)
 
Claire W said:
I’m proper stressing out about food and stuff :( We managed time get some toilet rolls yesterday for us and my parents but it’s getting ridiculous :(

My anxiety is through the roof about losing loved ones too :( Think I’ll stop watching media coverage
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I do feel for people who have anxiety.. I dont suffer but it makes me feel stressed thinking about it all! Just stay off social media and try not to stress.x
 
I ended up getting 45 rolls of toilet paper off Amazon. Did I want 45 rolls? No. Was there any other way to buy toilet roll? Also no. I go through more than most people because I have IBS and I can't afford to run out but I feel damned weird buying 45 rolls when I live alone :bal:
I had to go into Tesco today too. I'd had an online order delivered that was missing the tobacco :td: I had to order a taxi and I'd asked him if he could do a wait and return since I was only going to the customer services counter...and I'm glad I did, because the place was heaving. Did not want.
 
In here some grocery stores are putting a max number of items people can buy at once because no matter how many times they tell people that we will have enough supply of everything, they keep buying insane amounts of basics... :td:
 
Supermarkets here are no longer delivering toilet rolls, soap or pasta with on line orders, you have to go in store to buy them. Bit difficult if your are in isolation!
 
I can understand stress coming from all the lock downs.
In Michigan, all schools are closed, universities closed, all sporting events cancelled, concerts cancelled, churches closed, pretty much all major events have been cancelled. This with 33 confirmed cases in Michigan. But there are no fatalities yet.
 
Very odd. We nipped to Lidl just about an hour ago. Only a little busier than normal. Everything well stocked. Only struggled to get a joint for a Sunday roast.
 
Claire W said:
I’m proper stressing out about food and stuff :( We managed time get some toilet rolls yesterday for us and my parents but it’s getting ridiculous :(

My anxiety is through the roof about losing loved ones too :( Think I’ll stop watching media coverage
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It's crazy. It is like survival of the fittest trying to get a normal shop done!

I'm with you on the anxiety. Half my family would be classed as having an underlying condition, even if they are not 60+ so it is making me a bit jittery. I avoid most news websites & even facebook crossed over to the dark side this morning. I occasionally watch BBC news but even that is 95% coronavirus now.

Take care.
 
piggieminder said:
Supermarkets here are no longer delivering toilet rolls, soap or pasta with on line orders, you have to go in store to buy them. Bit difficult if your are in isolation!
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Look our for local shopping and isolation support schemes - or initiate one yourself.
Keep in mind that not everybody will ever fall ill and that not everbody will be ill at the same time. Community support is going to gain traction if enough people are willing to help each other to protect the elderly and vulnerable and each other iduring isolation instead of playing me, my family and the Great Flood thereafter!
 
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