Coronavirus - will we survive?

Donald Trump has banned visitors from Europe although excluding the UK.

Boris Johnson is also holding an emergency meeting on whether to close schools, public gatherings and ordering those who can to work from home.

Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson have tested positive for Coronavirus.

331,181 people have signed the government petition at time of posting to close all schools.

karlypants wrote:331,181 people have signed the government petition at time of posting to close all schools.

Rather listen to the experts than 331,181 panicking wankers.

T.R.O.Y wrote:

karlypants wrote:331,181 people have signed the government petition at time of posting to close all schools.

Rather listen to the experts than 331,181 panicking wankers.

You've changed your tune since the referendum KP.

wanderlust wrote:

T.R.O.Y wrote:

karlypants wrote:331,181 people have signed the government petition at time of posting to close all schools.

Rather listen to the experts than 331,181 panicking wankers.

You've changed your tune since the referendum KP.

Come again?

karlypants wrote:

wanderlust wrote:

T.R.O.Y wrote:

karlypants wrote:331,181 people have signed the government petition at time of posting to close all schools.

Rather listen to the experts than 331,181 panicking wankers.

You've changed your tune since the referendum KP.

Come again?

No but it did make me smile.

Once again the virus dominates the media, how many have it and how many have died.

And yet none seem quite so keen to highlight any good news, yet to me the following is massive:

BBC website wrote:But officials in China say the peak of the country's outbreak is over, after just 15 new cases were logged across the country on Thursday. Hubei province - the epicentre of the virus - logged just eight new infections.

I would have thought that was a headline grabber.

It should be Nat but until the tide turns here then the press will continue ramping it up and causing idiots to panic buy 96 rolls of bog roll and 10 tonne of dried pasta.

Natasha Whittam wrote:Once again the virus dominates the media, how many have it and how many have died.

And yet none seem quite so keen to highlight any good news, yet to me the following is massive:

BBC website wrote:But officials in China say the peak of the country's outbreak is over, after just 15 new cases were logged across the country on Thursday. Hubei province - the epicentre of the virus - logged just eight new infections.

I would have thought that was a headline grabber.

It should be because the only way to control the virus is to lock everyone indoors and put the fear of God in them for a few weeks as they have done in Hubei.

I understand our Government doesn't want the country to come to a standstill, but perhaps Italy has got it right - bunker down for a bit until it passes.

I suspect that's coming our way.

Norpig wrote:It should be Nat but until the tide turns here then the press will continue ramping it up and causing idiots to panic buy 96 rolls of bog roll and 10 tonne of dried pasta.

We are far more in danger from these idiots than we are from the virus.

Luckily I'm growing potatoes on my roof terrace, admittedly covered in cat shit.

Coronavirus: UK cases soar to 590 as death toll grows

The number of confirmed coronavirus cases in the UK has increased to 590, officials have announced, a rise of 134 in a day.

Separately, NHS England has announced two more patients have died, bringing the total death toll from coronavirus in the UK to 10.

One patient, an 89-year-old woman, was being treated at Charing Cross Hospital.

A spokesperson for Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust said the lady was very unwell with underlying health conditions adding: “The patient had tested positive for coronavirus. Our thoughts and condolences are with the patient’s family.”

A second woman, in her sixties, died after testing positive for coronavirus at Queen’s Hospital in Essex.

Tony Chambers, interim chief executive, Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals Trust said: “We can confirm that a patient, who was in her sixties, and who tested positive for COVID-19 has sadly died at Queen's hospital. She had been very unwell with significant other health conditions.

“Our thoughts and condolences are with the patient’s family at what is undoubtedly a very distressing time.

“We ask that the family’s privacy is respected”.

The latest increases and deaths come as the government faces pressure to take more drastic action to prevent the epidemic from spreading.

Last night former regional director of Public Health England Professor John Ashton said the government should have started putting measures in place a month ago.

He said: "We’ve got a complacent attitude, it feels wooden and academic, and we’ve wasted a month when we should have been engaging with the public.

"If this now spreads the way it looks likely to spread, there will not be enough hospital beds and people will have to be nursed at home. We should have gotten a grip on this a month ago."

Prime Minister Boris Johnson held a meeting of the Cobra emergency committee today where he was expected to approve a shift from “containment” to “delay”.

More than 126,000 people have so far been infected across the world, and 4,600 have died after contracting the disease.

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Second worker at Liverpool hospital has tested positive for coronavirus at unit where infected cancer surgeon returned to work from Italian skiing break sparking fears for hundreds of patients.

100-200 people likely to have died from "seasonal flu" today. Where is the hysteria about that?

Seems if you die from anything other than coronavirus your life is meaningless.

Natasha Whittam wrote:100-200 people likely to have died from "seasonal flu" today. Where is the hysteria about that?

Seems if you die from anything other than coronavirus your life is meaningless.

The hysteria is caused as at the moment the mortality rate is much higher than seasonal flu & there is no cure/immunisation from it.

BoltonTillIDie wrote:The hysteria is caused as at the moment the mortality rate is much higher than seasonal flu & there is no cure/immunisation from it.

Is it though, didn't the government say there were probably 10,000 cases in the UK, but most just thought they had a cold or regular flu?

That would make the mortality rate well under 1%.

These are the sort of stories people should be reading:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-51858845

Natasha Whittam wrote:

BoltonTillIDie wrote:The hysteria is caused as at the moment the mortality rate is much higher than seasonal flu & there is no cure/immunisation from it.

Is it though, didn't the government say there were probably 10,000 cases in the UK, but most just thought they had a cold or regular flu?

That would make the mortality rate well under 1%.

Correct!

People should listen to the experts talking instead of all this social media nonsense.



Also, immunisation has apparently been developed for it also BUT it can't be used until extensive clinical trials have been completed which could take the rest of the year.

Coronavirus: How close are we to a vaccine?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-51665497

Mikel Arteta tests POSITIVE for coronavirus and his entire team goes into self-isolation just minutes after Premier League announced fixtures would go ahead.

Doctors claim new coronavirus 'may cause damage to a man's TESTICLES' as they urge male patients to take fertility tests upon recovery

Good job Natasha has woman's bits.