Coronavirus - will we survive?

Why did people feel the need to queue hours before opening time just to get in Primark or Sports Direct?

Were they desperate to get some low priced knickers or football socks?

I bet TROY was in the queue.

HA just said a similar thing watching the news, what do you so desperately need?!

I'm desperate for a new Lonsdale t-shirt and white fluffy Donnay socks, can someone get me some please?

Norpig wrote:I'm desperate for a new Lonsdale t-shirt and white fluffy Donnay socks, can someone get me some please?

I'm glad to know you wear stuff with a bit of taste.

I always had you down as dressing like this...

I'm never shopping on the again. 

boltonbonce wrote:I'm never shopping on the again. 

It looks like you are having a senior moment Bonce.

You are not shopping on what?

karlypants wrote:

It looks like you are having a senior moment Bonce.

You are not shopping on what?

High street.

Some good news for a change!

Dexamethasone is first life-saving coronavirus drug

Extract from the article -

In the trial, led by a team from Oxford University, around 2,000 hospital patients were given dexamethasone and were compared with more than 4,000 who did not receive the drug.
For patients on ventilators, it cut the risk of death from 40% to 28%. For patients needing oxygen, it cut the risk of death from 25% to 20%.
Chief investigator Prof Peter Horby said: "This is the only drug so far that has been shown to reduce mortality - and it reduces it significantly. It's a major breakthrough."
Lead researcher Prof Martin Landray says the findings suggest that for every eight patients treated on ventilators, you could save one life.
For those patients treated with oxygen, you save one life for approximately every 20-25 treated with the drug.
"There is a clear, clear benefit. The treatment is up to 10 days of dexamethasone and it costs about £5 per patient. So essentially it costs £35 to save a life. This is a drug that is globally available."
Prof Landray said, when appropriate, hospital patients should now be given it without delay, but people should not go out and buy it to take at home.
Dexamethasone does not appear to help people with milder symptoms of coronavirus - those who don't need help with their breathing.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-53061281

Hope Norpig has plenty stocks in!

Sluffy wrote:Some good news for a change!

Dexamethasone is first life-saving coronavirus drug

Extract from the article -

In the trial, led by a team from Oxford University, around 2,000 hospital patients were given dexamethasone and were compared with more than 4,000 who did not receive the drug.
For patients on ventilators, it cut the risk of death from 40% to 28%. For patients needing oxygen, it cut the risk of death from 25% to 20%.
Chief investigator Prof Peter Horby said: "This is the only drug so far that has been shown to reduce mortality - and it reduces it significantly. It's a major breakthrough."
Lead researcher Prof Martin Landray says the findings suggest that for every eight patients treated on ventilators, you could save one life.
For those patients treated with oxygen, you save one life for approximately every 20-25 treated with the drug.
"There is a clear, clear benefit. The treatment is up to 10 days of dexamethasone and it costs about £5 per patient. So essentially it costs £35 to save a life. This is a drug that is globally available."
Prof Landray said, when appropriate, hospital patients should now be given it without delay, but people should not go out and buy it to take at home.
Dexamethasone does not appear to help people with milder symptoms of coronavirus - those who don't need help with their breathing.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-53061281

Hope Norpig has plenty stocks in!

we do at the moment but that could change rapidly now 

karlypants wrote:

I'm glad to know you wear stuff with a bit of taste.

I always had you down as dressing like this...

You can't beat a nice string vest especially in this humid weather 

Norpig wrote:

karlypants wrote:

I'm glad to know you wear stuff with a bit of taste.

I always had you down as dressing like this...

You can't beat a nice string vest especially in this humid weather 

You would look the part behind the BB Bins

One good thing that has come out of this is that Eastenders won't be on the TV for a good while apparently due to running out of pre recorded episodes.

Let's hope that Constipation street follows suit next!

karlypants wrote:One good thing that has come out of this is that Eastenders won't be on the TV for a good while apparently due to running out of pre recorded episodes.

Let's hope that Constipation street follows suit next!

What a result that would be. Hope they can take Keith Lemon with them.

What I'm amazed at is the amount of absolute rubbish the stations are now putting out, especialy the BBC.
Another thing that intrigues me is when you see the BBC news, with hundreds of people behind the news reader, what do they all do ? Its a lot of bodies, and for what?

The BBC is full of shit now Glos. It's time it was removed from our airwaves for good.

Presumably because you want it replaced with Fox News.

karlypants wrote:The BBC is full of shit now Glos. It's time it was removed from our airwaves for good.

And its all old shit too !

I'm fed up with gardening and cookery.

gloswhite wrote:
And its all old shit too !

I'm fed up with gardening and cookery.

I like BBC4. Watched a great documentary about Ella Fitzgerald  on iPlayer last week too. But quality is thin on the ground on the old beeb.

Norpig wrote:I'm desperate for a new Lonsdale t-shirt and white fluffy Donnay socks, can someone get me some please?

I can help. Get the bus to Stockport and Stepping Hill Mental Health Ward is a bit further up on the right. Yay!

boltonbonce wrote:
What a result that would be. Hope they can take Keith Lemon with them.

I actually laughed the first time I saw the bear get a boner but since then I've avoided the irritating twat so he's not been on my TV for years.