If you look at the numbers, we are following the exact curve of infection numbers that both china and italy had. There was a graph I saw earlier, and the curves are eerily similar. We will be similarly impacted in roughly two weeks if things continue...
We had a week off for half term a couple of weeks ago and haven’t been back since. They just announced a further two weeks of school closures here and early years departments may not open until the new school year. We only have 60-odd confirmed so far but the government announced that they currently have a testing group of 8,000 and more potentials (Kuwaitis who are essentially being evacuated from around the world) arriving every day. They’re doing the same thing here that most other places have done early in outbreak - aggressive quarantine to slow the speed. There’s travel restrictions all over the place and most of the seasonal workers (teachers, some oil workers, finance guys) just want to know they’ll be able to go home for the summer months. You haven’t been able to find masks or hand sanitiser for three weeks here!
I’m no fan of Prime Minister Johnson but this clip going around social media is cut deliberately to provoke outrage. In the full footage he does continue to say (rightly) that aggressive measures are needed to ensure health services aren’t overrun in the short term. But generally, yeah, youse are all buggered!
I mentioned a day or so ago, that a work colleague planned to continue working, should he contract the virus, or show symptoms, because of financial needs. I hope I can persuade him (an asthmatic would you believe) not to because this frontline report from an Italian doctor, confirms the need to stop it, and suggests that we will be at the same stage, as Italy, in a fortnight. https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/coronavirus-shocking-image-italian-patients-21663653
Just received a text from my GP surgery. In simple terms, if I have a cough, high temperature or shortness of breath, (even if it’s mild) stay away from the surgery.
I dont know a great deal about this subject , but the UK going into a lockdown ain't going to happen is it?!
Looking at the trajectories of infections, we are about 2 weeks behind Italy. I think it will come down to the government, but can see it happening.
It's beginning to look like that if people do that thing of continuing to live their everyday lives, without change or consideration, then we will have that epidemic and a number of people will die. There is no vaccine and people's immune systems are not equipped for it. So even seemingly fit people might take a hit and keel over. People are so used to being well, and only getting coughs and colds, because we have a decent public health system and there's an antibiotic for every situation, that they sometimes forget that epidemics can still happen.
Yea good points. Didn't realise how quickly the cases were adding up, until I researched it abit this morning. The country going into lockdown would be a mad situation though.
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definitely conflicting advice out there though - just copied this off the BBC site, and noticed straight away that some of the signs of respiratory tract infections according to the NHS are listed below in bold. Sneezing and a runny nose aren't symptoms of corona virus so isn't advice like that going to cause people to self isolate who haven't even got the virus, just a cold? please log in to view this image BBC Radio 5 Live ✔ @bbc5live People with 'even minor' signs of respiratory tract infections will soon be told to self-isolate to stop the spread of coronavirus, says @CMO_England The NHS say the signs are a cough, sneezing, a stuffy or runny nose, a sore throat and headaches.@DrAmirKhanGP explains...
I thought they said sneezing wasn't a sign of it? Now it is? Or they just don't want anyone going in for anything........
That's why I thought it was confusing advice as sneezing definitely isn't a symptom. It'll make people panic and then use valuable resources like test kits just to confirm that they haven't actually got it
the only reason I could think of for this advice is if you have a cold AND corona virus then the symptoms of the cold could potentially cause the spread of corona virus due to sneezing etc caused by the cold...
