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Person diagnosed with Coronavirus next town over from me...aibu?!

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JuniperNet · 27/02/2020 14:07

Just seen this in the local news that a school has closed in the next town over from me as one of the pupils parents has had a case of Coronavirus confirmed yesterday.

AIBU to be a bit freaked by this?! Too close to home for my liking!

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coconuttelegraph · 27/02/2020 15:19

Does anyone not have any family or close friends who would be in the high risk category?

Afaik I don't know anyone in a high risk category, I have a couple of older family members but they are in pretty good health and aren't worried. In fact I don't know anyone in real life who has even really mentioned it. It's not a topic of conversation at my work other than jokes when someone sneezes or coughs.

MN seems to be a place where all the worried well are congregating, we're not looking at an Ebola pandemic here

HasaDigaEebowai · 27/02/2020 15:20

WitchofZog It is bollocks. There are seven live cases in the UK

One is at the Royal Free London
Two are at the Royal Liverpool
One is at Guys and St Thomas London
One is at the Royal Victoria Infirmary newcastle
Two are at the Royal Hallamshire Sheffield

That's it. There are no other live cases known about in the UK.

myrtleWilson · 27/02/2020 15:21

Ah thanks Welsh. I'd not seen that Royal Hallamshire had entered the fray. But still of the 15, half are classed as recovered

HasaDigaEebowai · 27/02/2020 15:22

I completely agree that its likely that there are cases everywhere that are as yet undiagnosed. But you're talking bollocks about the actual confirmed cases

coconuttelegraph · 27/02/2020 15:23

Its all over the country. I know someone who works in the Infectious Diseases Ward at my local hospital. There are cases there. There are cases the next town over

And only you and your friend know about this? Anyway it's OK now as the DM are no doubt updating their headlines with this new information.

ElderAve · 27/02/2020 15:27

I wouldn't be personally worried for health (at least not long term health) but would be thinking about preparing for a period of isolation or for a period when local services may be reduced because of others' isolation or (with school closures) childcare problems.

FWIW, I don't think there's anything in the current guidelines that means the school needed to close. I wonder if the DFE will be in touch, the last thing the govt needs is lots of closed schools.

luckylavender · 27/02/2020 15:28

@Witchofzog - do stop it. Some people are very anxious & your propaganda (lies) isn't helping.

Kirkman · 27/02/2020 15:32

It's not bollocks. There absolutely are cases in the Infectious Diseases Ward. All info is available online if you don't believe me.

There absolutely isnt.

Devlesko · 27/02/2020 15:32

Tbh, I don't get how this is supposed to be controlled.
People being told to self isolate when others are having to be in quarantine for 14 days.
When the flights came in from Wutan, why were the people who greeted them wearing the suits yet the coach driver didn't even have a mask on.
Why are people being trusted to self isolate, surely you can't do this with such potential to spread the virus.

BrokenMumTeenDD · 27/02/2020 15:35

I echo Melissa I have good friends close to Milan & they are in the current "red zone" so everything is shut down. They are fed up of it, know nobody who is all & consider it a total over reaction compared to normal seasonal flu that kills more. We also know someone working at the centre of the UK outbreak with links to WHO etc & they are not worried either

ACautionaryTale · 27/02/2020 15:37

The point is - every one has to die.

If you are elderly and suffer other conditions, you live with the fact death is more likely.

I know my 86 year old FIL is dying of COPD and this would likely finish him off. I'm aware my mother is elderly at 76 and more likely to be serious.

I don't want either of them to die but I am also fully aware that they are elderly and death is more likely than for someone younger. If they got full blown flu they would be more likely to die.

It does not make me panic or worried - it is what is is and denial about our own mortality is part of the problem

Devlesko · 27/02/2020 15:39

How on earth can anyone say how many cases there are in the UK.
You were told so? It was reported? Yeah, right.
There could be lots of cases still to be confirmed, nobody knows and people who believe everything they read as factual are naive to say the least.

BeerFear · 27/02/2020 15:39

I am 50, is that elderly? I am not ready to die yet. I have microvascular angina, I am worried.

CorianderLord · 27/02/2020 15:41

A whole town away...

HasaDigaEebowai · 27/02/2020 15:41

We also know someone working at the centre of the UK outbreak with links to WHO etc

That would be... Buxton? London? Where exactly is the "centre of the UK outbreak"?

Why is there a blase competition about this? Its like everyone is falling over themselves to be the cool cat. This is a serious virus with no cure and the potential to completely overwhelm the NHS. 20% of those infected have serious or critical status. That's an enormous number of people given the high infection/replication rate.

I also know senior people in the NHS. One told me last night that we can't avoid it and all we can do now is encourage people to take it seriously since at the moment they will put everyone else at risk.

coconuttelegraph · 27/02/2020 15:41

There could be lots of cases still to be confirmed, nobody knows and people who believe everything they read as factual are naive to say the least

I haven't seen any posts that disagree with this, the poster that people are questioning referred to confirmed cases, it goes without saying that no one can possibly know how many cases there are still to be diagnosed.

coconuttelegraph · 27/02/2020 15:43

We also know someone working at the centre of the UK outbreak

What UK outbreak? The current handful of confirmed cases all originate from outside the UK. Contradict me if I'm wrong but there haven't been any confirmedd cases that have spread from any of these people in the UK.

BrokenMumTeenDD · 27/02/2020 15:44

Hasa as in their work place deals with outbreaks like this & they are very senior, not where they are based

AndNoneForGretchenWieners · 27/02/2020 15:46

There are probably cases in hospitals up and down the country that have not been confirmed officially yet for whatever reason- testing times, etc - I know of two patients local to me who are waiting for results and are being kept in isolation rooms at the hospital. I still don't think it is worth panicking over, if you are going to get it, you are going to get it. Take precautions like exercising good handwashing hygiene and try not to touch toilet door handles in public places, and you reduce the risk.

HasaDigaEebowai · 27/02/2020 15:46

Well that's bizarre then broken since most of the world's experts are in agreement that this is extremely serious and extremely worrying.

gamerwidow · 27/02/2020 15:48

I work at a hospital where there has been one confirmed Coronavirus case. Yes other people have been tested over the past few weeks but their tests have returned as negative. It is not running wild in the community as yet.

How on earth can anyone say how many cases there are in the UK.
You use the measure of how many people have tested positive for the virus. I think so far around 7000 people have been tested and of these only 15 of the results have returned as positive.

If you use any other measures you're pulling numbers out of your arse.

Yes the virus is worrying, yes it's right to use the precautionary measures such as self isolation in line with the government guidelines. That doesn't mean you run around flapping about with made up facts as if they have any value at all.

undead · 27/02/2020 15:48

I don't care about the virus and I am not worried, but I am curious how NHS is going to cope. Patients are already in corridors. How they are going to take care of possibly huge increase of respiratory patients.

cooldarkroom · 27/02/2020 15:48

In France today they said there is a high chance that there are very many more people who have it, but simply aren't that ill.
They let 3000 Italian football supporters travel to Lyon yesterday to watch a match, but have cancelled the carnivals in Menton & Nice...
The quarantine measures are a farce in my opinion, (other than people actually diagnosed.)
Too little too late

ElderAve · 27/02/2020 15:50

Undead, if there was a major outbreak I'd imagine everything routine/not urgent would stop.

grandmasterstitch · 27/02/2020 15:51

I wonder about the whole immunosuppressed people. I have. Health condition and take meds which dampens my immune system but I have no clue if this puts me in the at risk category. For example my DC don't get the chicken pox vaccines free because although I'm immunosuppressed I'm not as bad as say someone undergoing chemotherapy. It's all very vague