Off Topic Coronavirus
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Stainsy...I hope we meet again soon, at a match or a gig....and if I know I will bring you the biggest, bestest free cake ever. 
I've had chest problems in the past and often were brought on when under pressure in my previous job when we had staff shortages and I was often working 6.00am to 10.00pm covering absences. Sometimes by Friday I was absolutely so drained I'd spend most of the weekend asleep...
I think the risk for you and other health workers is ‘viral load’, in other words you can potentially get exposed to a load of the virus in a short space of time and this makes the disease more intense than for the rest of the population who just pick up from one other person.
Obviously decent PPE is the solution......
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I heard chefs get some sort of immunity with food. The government needs to step up and get these tests done for the front line.
Nah, you’re the Telefon kid. Viruses run in terror at the sight of you.I’m probably ****ed then ?
Oh well, mustn’t complain.
Surely there must be some interim payments made to the self employed till the payments come on line.
Can't be that difficult to make one off payments into bank accounts based on who's registered self employed?
Some will gain, some will lose out, but at least everyone will get something.
Can't be that difficult to make one off payments into bank accounts based on who's registered self employed?
Some will gain, some will lose out, but at least everyone will get something.
One great piece of news this morning, I posted on here a while back that the mother of a friend of ours had been admitted to hospital and then diagnosed with the virus and isolated. Well Doreen, who will be 90 next week, has beaten it! She apparently spent a lot of the time trying to escape the ward, what a lady!...
With all the cake you are eating there won't be any room for virus
Brilliant. Was she on a ventilator at any stage? I’d really like to know the numbers of patients who end up in ITU or being ventilated who pull through.
3.3 million Americans sign on as unemployed in ONE WEEK. Wonder what our figures are?
Boris on a broadcast from home. Seems pretty chipper. Put his jacket and tie on. Bless.
****ing Keunssberg raising the question of whether given the shortage of tests, the PM should have had one. Carrie Gracie struggling not to smirk as she ladels on the gloom.
Boris on a broadcast from home. Seems pretty chipper. Put his jacket and tie on. Bless.
****ing Keunssberg raising the question of whether given the shortage of tests, the PM should have had one. Carrie Gracie struggling not to smirk as she ladels on the gloom.
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Has anyone else got this ?
Seems to be doing the rounds......might be the usual bullshit rumours going about when this sort of thing goes on.
This is a full and frank message. Please forward to the rest of the family, and your loved ones if you choose.
I had a meeting today with our Medical Director, who has been in touch with government. The following therefore has some authority.
By the weekend, London will be in full lockdown, with Army manned checkpoints. Only key workers, NHS staff, police, ambulance, fire, delivery drivers, and teachers looking after the children of the above, will be allowed to move around the city.
By next week, those restrictions will apply to the country.
Tonight Lewisham Hospital is overwhelmed, ambulances on divert, and only a few ventilators left. QEH is close behind. My Trust is in the frontline of this epidemic, mainly due to local demographics. The rest of the NHS is probably little more than a week behind. We have denied critical care to four patients today, who will die as a result.
I must now be clear. Anyone over 75 years old will be denied critical care; anyone over 65 with diseases, eg diabetes, COPD, will be denied critical care. We are ramping up palliative care services. If an elderly patient falls sick, and requires hospital care, there will be an immediate DNAR order on them. They will be palliated, and they will live or die. The government forecast of 250,000 deaths is, we believe, hopelessly optimistic.
The mortality rate is very high in the elderly. The ICU stay on a ventilator even in survivors is about three weeks. We will run out of ventilators in a week.
The Army is setting up field hospitals, no doubt with squaddies manually bagging patients.
You will not hear this from Boris Johnson for a few days. But please be assured it is coming. We are two weeks behind Italy.
For the family therefore, anyone over 65 is to self isolate, possibly for many weeks. Maintain contact through frequent video calls. If they need food or supplies, take them over and leave the bags on the doorstep, and wave at them from at least a six foot distance. They are not to touch the bags for 15 minutes. Do not visit for 14 days if you or anyone in your household is unwell with and fever, cough or 'flu like symptoms. If you are unwell, stay indoors, along with your whole family. Have a neighbour or a friend drop off supplies, with no social contact.
We need to blunt the curve, which is right now exponentially rising.
For myself, you cannot imagine the stress we are under. The awful decisions we will have to make. We will be taking otherise healthy 60 year olds off a ventilator to die so we can save a 30 year old.
Please stay safe. I'll email when I can with news from the frontline.
With much love to you all,
Seems to be doing the rounds......might be the usual bullshit rumours going about when this sort of thing goes on.
This is a full and frank message. Please forward to the rest of the family, and your loved ones if you choose.
I had a meeting today with our Medical Director, who has been in touch with government. The following therefore has some authority.
By the weekend, London will be in full lockdown, with Army manned checkpoints. Only key workers, NHS staff, police, ambulance, fire, delivery drivers, and teachers looking after the children of the above, will be allowed to move around the city.
By next week, those restrictions will apply to the country.
Tonight Lewisham Hospital is overwhelmed, ambulances on divert, and only a few ventilators left. QEH is close behind. My Trust is in the frontline of this epidemic, mainly due to local demographics. The rest of the NHS is probably little more than a week behind. We have denied critical care to four patients today, who will die as a result.
I must now be clear. Anyone over 75 years old will be denied critical care; anyone over 65 with diseases, eg diabetes, COPD, will be denied critical care. We are ramping up palliative care services. If an elderly patient falls sick, and requires hospital care, there will be an immediate DNAR order on them. They will be palliated, and they will live or die. The government forecast of 250,000 deaths is, we believe, hopelessly optimistic.
The mortality rate is very high in the elderly. The ICU stay on a ventilator even in survivors is about three weeks. We will run out of ventilators in a week.
The Army is setting up field hospitals, no doubt with squaddies manually bagging patients.
You will not hear this from Boris Johnson for a few days. But please be assured it is coming. We are two weeks behind Italy.
For the family therefore, anyone over 65 is to self isolate, possibly for many weeks. Maintain contact through frequent video calls. If they need food or supplies, take them over and leave the bags on the doorstep, and wave at them from at least a six foot distance. They are not to touch the bags for 15 minutes. Do not visit for 14 days if you or anyone in your household is unwell with and fever, cough or 'flu like symptoms. If you are unwell, stay indoors, along with your whole family. Have a neighbour or a friend drop off supplies, with no social contact.
We need to blunt the curve, which is right now exponentially rising.
For myself, you cannot imagine the stress we are under. The awful decisions we will have to make. We will be taking otherise healthy 60 year olds off a ventilator to die so we can save a 30 year old.
Please stay safe. I'll email when I can with news from the frontline.
With much love to you all,