Ontopofthesunset Exactly. This week I've had people say they won't go to Manchester yet they work in a school and have been to the GP twice and this hasn't crossed their minds as much more likely as a somewhere to be infected.
There's been loads of comments about banning all flights to China but no thought about the developing situation elsewhere in the world or indirect flights. Also coupled with lots of racism.
Then you have the taxi driver who is apparently not high risk, apart from the fact two taxi drivers in Japan have caught it.
And now we have cases like this popping up
mainichi.jp/english/articles/20200214/p2g/00m/0na/044000c
New coronavirus cases further spread in Japan, some infection routes unknown
While health minister Katsunobu Kato said there is "no reason for changing the government position that it has yet to reach a state of epidemic in Japan," infection of a Hokkaido resident in his 50s with no recent history of traveling abroad has been confirmed, the Hokkaido government said. The man is being treated at a hospital where he remains in serious condition.
In Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture, a man in his 60s who recently returned from a trip to Hawaii has tested positive for the coronavirus, the city government said. He has not visited China recently.
In cases reported Thursday in the western prefecture of Wakayama, a route of contraction is not known, either.
A man in his 70s who was treated at a hospital in Wakayama where a doctor was confirmed to have been infected with the virus has also tested positive for it, local officials said Friday, adding that the two apparently never had any contact.
Wakayama Gov. Yoshinobu Nisaka said, however, he does not think infections are spreading inside the Saiseikai Arida Hospital in Yuasa, where the man, a farmer, was briefly hospitalized from last week.
A local government official warned that infections could be spreading outside of the medical facility as the man developed symptoms before he visited the hospital on Feb. 6.
At what point does it become necessary or advised for anyone with a cold or sore throat to self isolate in the uk? Is that even reasonable and possible? In the absence of a more concrete plan and consistent strategy led by government its all just a nonsense. And one that supports businesses, self employed, schools, parents etc.
I'm particularly fed up as I've had a cold or cough more or less since November. Having a 5 year old germ factory is proving bad for my health. I've been laid up in bed for the majority of the last two days apart from to take him to school. I can't not take him because of his attendance record. I know he hasn't got coronavirus but the point is what happens as this does spread then that does start to be an issue for people. A coherent plan from government is now needed. We don't have one. That's starting to be troubling.
Basically the situation is becoming a farce because the government is taking up to 72 hours to test the highest risk cases, because they don't have enough testing capacity. We already have an overload of the healthcare system. As a result contact tracing is taking far too long to really be effective as a result. You have a mix of genuinely concerning contacts as well chancers and the anxious now self isolating because of it. The window of opportunity to slow it down is closing fast because people haven't applied a good enough triage of risk assessment.
The case of the nurse who has been in direct contact with someone is also showing the problem up very strongly.
No one knows what the fuck they are doing.