SARS CoV-2 coronavirus / Covid-19 (No tin foil hat silliness please)

Nou_Camp99 said:
I was right. They are staying open for kids whose parents who work in emergency services.
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Never said you were wrong, I said it was crazy. You also shit talked about lazy teachers which was kind of my main point dude.
 
TMDaines said:
People keep saying Italy is looking more positive, but I can't see it unless you are seriously cherry picking the data: https://lab.gedidigital.it/gedi-visual/2020/coronavirus-i-contagi-in-italia/
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I looked at some data and it did become flat and daily deaths did lower but today with 4200 cases and 457 deaths it's a jump from the recent rate of around 3500 cases and 350 death per day.
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/italy/

Critical people have increased again. Was 1800, then 2060 and now 2257
 
Dante said:
It was for things that I eat every single day as a part of my diet, but that I knew were likely going to run out (like nuts, raisins, salt-your-own crisps, peanut butter, etc).

I've been avoiding panic buying of random shit precisely for the reasons you've spelled out. I didn't go near any of the stuff most people are hoarding (not that there's any left even if I wanted some pasta or rice).

I'm still hoping/expecting to go out every few days for skimmed milk, eggs, cottage cheese and bread.

Although I am still young and healthy, the issue I have is that I live alone and have no family still alive. If I were to become ill, I'd have to rely on myself for food and drink. if I were unable to physically get out of bed, I'd pretty much be fecked. And if I were too unwell to go out shopping, I'd be equally in trouble.

So I may not be vulnerable from an age point-of-view, but I am vulnerable from a support network point-of-view. Having a few packets of nuts, raisins or crisps by my bedside is about protecting myself rather than trying to get one over everybody else.

For what it's worth, I've also timed it so that I've been eating loads of takeaways the last couple of weeks. Now I'm going to start dieting for the next couple of weeks (eating minimal amounts of food). Then I'll go back to normal. Hopefully that'll be enough to get me through.
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Wish you the best and everyone else.

Hope this can be controlled sooner rather than later.
 
@Nou_Camp99 I'm just annoyed because none of the shops had any Freddos left. Just replace all the words I put with cat memes.
 
Looking beyond Western society and the measures the richer countries enact to combat this will mean we surely overcome it at some point, you have to assume that when this really hits Africa (doesn't seem too far away) it's going to be far worse, right?
 
Do people think this is something larger than we're anticipating but the government aren't informing us due to the panic it may bring?
 
Relevated said:
Do people think this is something larger than we're anticipating but the government aren't informing us due to the panic it may bring?
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The government don't know. The health experts don't know. The central banks don't know.

A lot of people will die. How many? No one knows. There will be a major global recession. How bad? No one knows. Could it be the start of the second, decades-long Great Depression? Sure, it could be. But no one knows.
 
Relevated said:
Do people think this is something larger than we're anticipating but the government aren't informing us due to the panic it may bring?
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I fecking not this is horrific as it is. The data doesn’t show that so far though.
 
If closing schools earlier was a good idea (quite possible ) why did Scotland and Wales wait to do so. Is this a devolved power?
 
TheReligion said:
Will be interesting to see what impact it has initially. If it doesn't work they'll have to think again but certainly worth a try at doing something differently I think.
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Except we don't really have the luxury of time to see how it goes.

Stop the spread now or it will spread further and faster. We are wasting time with half measures, even if this is a step in the right direction.
 
Grinner said:
They are going on about this test to see who's had it as being important, but surely China has been working on this and still doesn't have it?
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Can't remember the word for this kind of testing (after the fact testing), but China have declared they won't be doing it.
 
Just read the tragic news that a guy who was put in isolation and samples sent for testing, committed suicide by jumping off the hospital floor.
 
Volumiza said:
This is a great idea by the way.



I personally know 3 teachers. 2 of them are pretty well described by this. Any excuse. 1 on the other hand is a proper teacher.
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I'm a teacher and I'm using e-learning platforms to create sets of task to do online each day for all my classes, including those at the age of seven, since they schools closure here in Poland (6 days ago). The platfrom I use gives me all the detailed information (i.e. how much time each student spent on each given task, how many times was it completed and what was the score. I'm also introducing real time online classes (need a day or two to implement that). Am I a proper teacher? Please say it so.

On a serious note, our government suggested we 'did our best to teach students somehow' and gave some useful online sources. Pretty sure yours will do the same.
 
Mr Pigeon said:
Never said you were wrong, I said it was crazy. You also shit talked about lazy teachers which was kind of my main point dude.
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Nah I said I read a few today online who were gagging for 4 months off full pay. I never generalised all teachers. I have friends who are teachers who aren't like that.

The excess teachers might have to be used in another capacity now. They are paid by the public. They shouldn't be off doing nothing whilst there is a crisis. Just my opinion.
 
Relevated said:
Do people think this is something larger than we're anticipating but the government aren't informing us due to the panic it may bring?
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Its a fair enough question, but i would really refrain at the moment from engaging with anything close to scaremongering, the data just doesnt align with it.
 
I think my household pretty much lost its entire income today

I'm a pretty level headed guy and I've been trying desperately to keep my wife in particular chilled as she suffers with anxiety and panic attacks as it is but its fair to say I'm pretty much shitting it now.

Whatever assistance they're putting in place better be quickly and easily accessible, really don't need more stress of having to jump through hoops to get food for my kids

I'd probably be bawling right now if I wasn't so numb, or currently sitting on hold for 53 mins trying to cancel my virgin media
 
Red_Aaron said:
I think my household pretty much lost its entire income today

I'm a pretty level headed guy and I've been trying desperately to keep my wife in particular chilled as she suffers with anxiety and panic attacks as it is but its fair to say I'm pretty much shitting it now.

Whatever assistance they're putting in place better be quickly and easily accessible, really don't need more stress of having to jump through hoops to get food for my kids

I'd probably be bawling right now if I wasn't so numb, or currently sitting on hold for 53 mins trying to cancel my virgin media
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You lost your job or....?
 
Red_Aaron said:
I think my household pretty much lost its entire income today

I'm a pretty level headed guy and I've been trying desperately to keep my wife in particular chilled as she suffers with anxiety and panic attacks as it is but its fair to say I'm pretty much shitting it now.

Whatever assistance they're putting in place better be quickly and easily accessible, really don't need more stress of having to jump through hoops to get food for my kids

I'd probably be bawling right now if I wasn't so numb, or currently sitting on hold for 53 mins trying to cancel my virgin media
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Sorry to hear mate :(
 
Pexbo said:
My exams in May are cancelled now. Possibly moving to an online assessment which seems pointless as everyone is clearly going to be conferring.
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Our exams have been put online. My year is graduating so I think my graduation ceremony will be online. Crazy
 
Dante said:
It was for things that I eat every single day as a part of my diet, but that I knew were likely going to run out (like nuts, raisins, salt-your-own crisps, peanut butter, etc).

I've been avoiding panic buying of random shit precisely for the reasons you've spelled out. I didn't go near any of the stuff most people are hoarding (not that there's any left even if I wanted some pasta or rice).

I'm still hoping/expecting to go out every few days for skimmed milk, eggs, cottage cheese and bread.

So I may not be vulnerable from an age point-of-view, but I am vulnerable from a support network point-of-view. Having a few packets of nuts, raisins or crisps by my bedside is about protecting myself rather than trying to get one over everybody else.

For what it's worth, I've also timed it so that I've been eating loads of takeaways the last couple of weeks. Now I'm going to start dieting for the next couple of weeks (eating minimal amounts of food). Then I'll go back to normal. Hopefully that'll be enough to get me through.
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Ah. Fair enough. Anyone in your situation would be sensible to have two weeks supplies stashed away in case you end up too sick to get out and have no way to get food delivered. By all accounts, anorexia is a prominent symptom so if you do get Covid-19 two weeks supply of food will probably be a hell of a lot less than you’d eat over two weeks while healthy!
 
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