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

I would phone your employer in the morning, the guy next to Johnson at the press conference said expect letters by Tuesday at the earliest.

Yeah luckily my high level manager is decent, told me to take the day off and try and speak to my doctor's to see if they can confirm it for me
 
I suspect the case and death rate in Iran is way beyond Italy's and China's. But the truth will never be released.

It's a shame because truthful data will help everyone understand the disease a lot more and may save many lives.

If they want to rule over ruins, there's nothing stopping them.

I haven't read anything from Russia either, apparently it's life as normal there, which is very hard to believe as they share a border with China and extensive economic ties in both Europe and parts of Asia that are heavily hit.
 
I'm usually not one for conspiracy theories but how convenient are the reports of Harvey Weinstein testing positive?
 
I'm usually not one for conspiracy theories but how convenient are the reports of Harvey Weinstein testing positive?

Is he apart of a predator ring full of highly influential people of interest?
 
From reddit :



What it again shows is the earlier you introduce social distancing the more profound the effect is.
 
Someone posted on Twitter that all the lockdown, physical inactivity, delays in graduation and subsequent unemployment could be precipitating a mental health crisis and I agree.

More and more I'm beginning to lean towards letting the lower risk population out and to work or school while concentrating the isolation towards higher risk groups as soon as the curve starts to flatten a bit.
 
If they want to rule over ruins, there's nothing stopping them.

I haven't read anything from Russia either, apparently it's life as normal there, which is very hard to believe as they share a border with China and extensive economic ties in both Europe and parts of Asia that are heavily hit.

Russia is well documented by WHO that they closed the border with China in January and has been testing and quarantining people from January. They simply didn't announce it loudly. I saw the interview of the WHO representative today who said this. They have tested over 165,000 by now. Plus the Chinese shared intelligence with them from the beginning and they have been working on some treatment for a while now. They are fairly good in these kinds of things.
 
It doesn't work. You have to close the parks or else you have to police them, and that's a waste of police right now.
It does seem crazy if all of our police our out enforcing the 'two metre' rule. Much as it makes sense, I live 20 minutes either way from two parks and I'm getting bored being stuck inside. Might have to dig the exercise bike out begrudgingly.
 
No one hopes to get 100% compliance, that doesn't even happen in China or any of the authoritarian countries. If instead you even get 60-70% compliance, especially among higher risk populations, that is a major win.
That does make sense. Saying that, I have read about Chinese authorities putting seals on people's doors so they knew if they've left the house. Doesn't help that most of us have tiny flats in London.
 
That does make sense. Saying that, I have read about Chinese authorities putting seals on people's doors so they knew if they've left the house. Doesn't help that most of us have tiny flats in London.

How did they get food?
 
So that's 327 deaths a week on average from influenza while people go about their normal routines. We've had around 100 deaths in the last 7 days while having unprecedented social exclusion measures, as well as media exposure of the virus for 3 months.

Give it a couple of weeks and it will be closer to 1000 deaths a day if people dont stop going out.


Virgin Australia have cancelled all international flights. I think they are in danger of going under. I also heard that BA and QANTAS aren't as secure as you might think even if they are better off than some.

BA have a 9 billion cash reserve. As far as airlines go they're amongst the strongest but all of them will be hit hard this year, and a government bailout may even be forced on them (see JPMorgan 2008).
 
It's time for a jump off a bridge challenge on Instagram.

Be careful not to post that idea anywhere outside of the caf.

Based on the feckwits found on insta/tiktok or any other nonsense like that, it could end up more dangerous than COVID!
 
From reddit :



What it again shows is the earlier you introduce social distancing the more profound the effect is.


It is a nice analogy but a better one, if you want some mathematical picture, is to use a network to represent a population of people, with each node a single person and each edge showing a possible route of infection.

By removing each edge from the network, you remove a link between two nodes (two people). If you examine a single node representing one person, by removing edges which end(start) at that node, you remove a possible route of infection. The network becomes less connected (or becomes sparse) and therefore less infections are spread.

http://www.mappingdentalnetworks.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/simple_graph.jpg
 
My grandpa, 93 was admitted to hospital on Saturday with a very high temperature. Just had results and he has tested positive for Covid 19. Death sentence most likely :(

Really worried for my mum and dad now who were there to try and help him up when he had collapsed.
 
My grandpa, 93 was admitted to hospital on Saturday with a very high temperature. Just had results and he has tested positive for Covid 19. Death sentence most likely :(

Really worried for my mum and dad now who were there to try and help him up when he had collapsed.

Sorry to hear that. Unfortunately we will be hearing many more stories like this.
 
How many utter knobheads are gonna be like oi oi one last Maddy D's before they close at 7pm tomorrow?

I'm angry about it in advance.
 
My grandpa, 93 was admitted to hospital on Saturday with a very high temperature. Just had results and he has tested positive for Covid 19. Death sentence most likely :(

Really worried for my mum and dad now who were there to try and help him up when he had collapsed.

So sorry mate. Thoughts are with you.
 
My grandpa, 93 was admitted to hospital on Saturday with a very high temperature. Just had results and he has tested positive for Covid 19. Death sentence most likely :(

Really worried for my mum and dad now who were there to try and help him up when he had collapsed.
So sorry to hear this.

So tragic. It's just impossible to comprehend how awful this is, like a wave we're watching grow to such a scary height and its not even nearly finished.
 
My housemate in between night-shifts this weekend has told me that a 21 year old, fit and healthy, has been admitted into Intensive Care due to complications of Covid19.
This has properly hit home now. I've got a 12 hour shift tomorrow and Wednesday, 8 hour shift on Tuesday and Thursday, then three 13 hour night shifts on Friday-Sunday.

I'm genuinely dreading this week.
 
My grandpa, 93 was admitted to hospital on Saturday with a very high temperature. Just had results and he has tested positive for Covid 19. Death sentence most likely :(

Really worried for my mum and dad now who were there to try and help him up when he had collapsed.

I'm sorry to hear this buddy.
 
How many utter knobheads are gonna be like oi oi one last Maddy D's before they close at 7pm tomorrow?

I'm angry about it in advance.

Tell me about it. I felt a bit ill about two weeks ago and have been self isolating since before it was official policy. So angry at the attitude in this country
 
My grandpa, 93 was admitted to hospital on Saturday with a very high temperature. Just had results and he has tested positive for Covid 19. Death sentence most likely :(

Really worried for my mum and dad now who were there to try and help him up when he had collapsed.

Sorry to hear. :(
 
Trump appearing pleased about Romney being in quarantine.

 
My housemate in between night-shifts this weekend has told me that a 21 year old, fit and healthy, has been admitted into Intensive Care due to complications of Covid19.
This has properly hit home now. I've got a 12 hour shift tomorrow and Wednesday, 8 hour shift on Tuesday and Thursday, then three 13 hour night shifts on Friday-Sunday.

I'm genuinely dreading this week.
See does it not feel like no one wants to admit that Covid-19 can kill the young and healthy? Does the 'complications of' mean anything? Should those two words be there?

Also, all the best this week!