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Boris...

  • should completely lock us down immediately and fook up all our Christmas'

    Votes: 3 12.5%

  • let the bodies stack high

    Votes: 13 54.2%

  • lock us down from the 29th to fook up Treble's plans

    Votes: 8 33.3%
  • Total voters
    24
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After a resident of California died of coronavirus on 4 March, Governor Gavin Newsom declared a state of emergency. It was the first Covid-19 related death in the US outside of Washington state.

More than 24,424 people have tested positive for coronavirus in California and 821 people have died. Yet the losses, while tragic, are a fraction of what experts predicted the state's 40 million people would face.
 
brb said:
As I was saying last night mate. I really am not understanding what these tests prove. For example, you state if the test shows someone has had the virus and once they recover they can return to work. But I've seen several instances where it's been claimed the virus can remain inside you, anything from 2 weeks to a month, and aside from that, how sure are we they don't catch it a second time. You could end up with someone with a clean bill of health, but end up wiping out a care home. I appreciate we have to start somewhere, but I believe we need to closely monitor what is going on in other countries at the moment, especially those in the world that are lifting the lockdown. Without the vaccine, I'm just concerned the whole reason we shut down in the first place, could go on to cause so much harm, by lifting it too soon. And like everyone else I'm getting tired of the restrictions to.
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Just seen another post about you can get it twice...kind of shows the level of confusion I guess.
I thought the originsl "herd immunity" plan was misguided at the time but thought it was based on a scientific fact that once you got it you would be safe but obviously that has changed.
But to be clear I am not in favour of lifting the restrictions...doing it too soon could cost thousands of lives.

To be honest the restrictions are more than worth it imho.
As much as I would love to see my uni kid and as much as I want my youngest to get the support she needs for her diagnosis I would rather they be safe.

Hope everyone is well
 
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Archers Road said:
See, this is what I hate about the modern world. In my day, if men couldn’t resolve their differences any other way, they fought toe to toe, with fists.

I’m a bit old for all that now though. And **** worrying if the other **** is carrying a blade.
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Really?

I thought back in your day it was pistols at dawn?
 
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brb said:
As I was saying last night mate. I really am not understanding what these tests prove. For example, you state if the test shows someone has had the virus and once they recover they can return to work. But I've seen several instances where it's been claimed the virus can remain inside you, anything from 2 weeks to a month, and aside from that, how sure are we they don't catch it a second time. You could end up with someone with a clean bill of health, but end up wiping out a care home. I appreciate we have to start somewhere, but I believe we need to closely monitor what is going on in other countries at the moment, especially those in the world that are lifting the lockdown. Without the vaccine, I'm just concerned the whole reason we shut down in the first place, could go on to cause so much harm, by lifting it too soon. And like everyone else I'm getting tired of the restrictions to.
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The virus is mainly transmitted by people coughing and spreading the virus in the air, either directly from person to person or via it landing on surfaces and being picked up. So if someone isn’t symptomatic post having the virus i.e. not coughing and spluttering, they won’t be spreading it, assuming their personal hygiene is what it should be.The way to ensure this and reduce the risk even further is to get people to wear masks. Many seem to think the masks are merely for protection, but it also stops infected people pushing the virus into the air.

As for reinfection. There is no treatment for this disease, so therefore the ONLY way for the body to defeat it, is with its own immune system. The white blood cells that end up producing the antibodies specifically for this virus, remain within your body but dormant after you’ve had it, until such times you may become exposed to the same virus again, and then they reactivate. That’s how the body’s immune system works. Some immunity lasts a lifetime, others a number of years, depends on the virus. Studies on other types of coronavirus show that its likely to last a number of years. All of which means, you can get reinfected with any virus a second time, but your bodies immune system will almost certainly see the virus off extremely quickly, most wouldn’t even know.
 
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