To be worried about the Coronavirus Part 6

[Jenasaurus]

Old thread here

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/3833553-to-be-worried-about-coronavirus-part-5

Just seen this on Twitter

Living Wage for Brockley Barge Staff
@LivingWageBarge
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Wetherspoons has sent out a briefing on Coronavirus and has made clear that even if employees are in quarantine by orders of the Government, that they will still not receive sick pay from day one.

The company is forcing workers to choose between public health and making rent.

twitter.com/LivingWageBarge/status/1232993238396624896?s=20

HelenaDove Would it be possible to have his blood pressure tested at home? Would you be able to get a home tester monitor? Would his GP accept a home test result? I'm not sure how much they cost so obviously only an option if you can afford it.

Will suggest it to him

So looks like we all need to boycott Wetherspoons then!

I've been boycotting Wetherspoons for years over their Brexit position. Happy to continue though.

You know i thought the owner of Wetherspoons couldnt be a bigger cunt.

I was wrong. Greedy bastard.

Checking in from Tokyo. The school I work at is still operating as usual. The government advice to close schools applies to public (state schools). I work at a private school and we are still teaching. Masks compulsory for teachers in school though. Waiting to hear whether we’ll close from next week. Even if we do, I imagine the teachers will still have to come in.

Just plonking myself down on the thread

South Korea now over 2,000 cases I see

@Motorina if we are going to just assume on the figures, then as it has been stated so many people get very mild symptoms or no symptoms at all then it is possible to also assume that there are more than double the current cases that have been stated. some reports even predict that there are 10 times as many cases. which would put the death rate much lower than it is at the moment.

I feel sick

they say some get it bad but most not

Checking in from Melbourne where I am starting to feel distinctly edgey. No rolled oats in my local supermarket and over the counter medications looking sparse. Australian government declared it as a federal emergency and proceeding as if it a global pandemic.

I’m in the UAE and two Italian cyclists have just tested positive from the Tour of UAE team. Their hotel has been surrounded by police (last night at approx midnight - was full of drinkers as Thursday is a big night out here) and looked down. Chris Froome, the British cyclist, is among those locked inside the hotel and being tested. Thankfully the health system here is very good so they will be in good hands.

I'm pretty sure the figures arrived at by the WHO, CFR of 2%, are based on the assumption that there are many people who have carried on unaffected without presenting to the hospital amd4578

Of you were just looking at the hospitalised patients you get a much bigger CFR risk than 2%. On worldometers it says:
"A study on 138 hospitalized patients with 2019-nCoV infection, published on February 7 on JAMA, found that 26% of patients required admission to the intensive care unit (ICU) and 4.3% died, but a number of patients were still hospitalized at the time. [9]"

(So, I guess that study isn't holding out much hope for those who are currently critically ill and expects this death rate % to climb)

Hello, can I join, I've been following recent threads.
I'm in the south of Italy (I'll get my coat) and the school I work in will be closed for 3 days along with all the others in the town for "resanification"
The not so funny joke of course is that the north has been sending all the uni students home, who are having a great time- opening night in next town to me on Monday of new nightclub with 4000 people bussed in from all over the region for example.
I'm interested to read what's being said in the international press because here it veers from "it's all under control" to TV presenters showing us how to wash our hands.

@magimedi, I get you're one of those people who pride themselves on 'telling it how it is' aren't you? @RedToothBrush's contributions have been invaluable and we need posters who take the time to understand a situation and share their thoughts. We don't need the reactionary ones who jump in several threads in, desperate to have a pop. You might call it telling it how it is. I call it plain rude.

Interesting that the YANBUs have picked right up from low 60s to 85 by now.

Does anyone know how bad it is in Saudi? I have a friend out there flying back in a few days.

Interesting that the YANBUs have picked right up from low 60s to 85 by now

Last week people at work were slightly giggling at me buying masks, etc......now they’re asking me for advice on which ones to get and upset they can’t find any.

I was thinking about gatherings of loads of people - I live in Edinburgh, in August we have the Festivals. The population doubles, many tourists and performers come.

It's a spectacular month (if a bit annoying navigating your way through endless jugglers and thespians so you can just take your kids to the dentist) - but, there are a LOT of people very close together, from all over the world.

AIBU in thinking it's going to be cancelled for the first time in 72 years? August is not far away and this situation is likely to get worse before it gets better.

Thank you for starting this thread. I have been following but haven't contributed anything.
Its been good to read facts and opinions on this as it goes along. I am becoming I increasingly worried but my husband isn't so it's good to have other worried people to be with!
I work in a school and our neighbouring school have had kids return from Italy. The school hasn't closed and we have siblings in our school. I have taught them the proper handwash but it doesn't seem to spread around children. However I can't find evidence for this. I wonder if they find that children could host it but not be affected?

Popping in to placemark.

I wonder how things will be in just over a month, as it's Easter half term. Plenty of people would usually be traveling, both abroad and in the UK. I expect a huge surge in cases before then, but I wonder where the situation will be by that point.

Doctor on the radio yesterday (BBC London - Vanessa Feltz show) said that masks are only helpful for preventing infected people passing it on through droplets and even then, they are only effective in the short term and need replacing regularly. Wearing a mask if you're not infected can actually increase your chances of infection. As you breathe, the mask becomes wet and warm - prime virus breeding ground. Touching the mask as you remove it - more risk of spreading in on your hands.

Unless you have a filtered respirator mask, properly fitted for your face, then it's all pretty pointless. A ICU nurse also called in and said basically that she wouldn't bother spending money on masks as they are ineffective. I feel so bloody powerless.

A major German paper printed an interview with a paediatrician appealing to concerned parents not to bring their possibly affected children to the surgery. He reiterated that children get through it fine anyway, and all that bringing them in will do is to spread it to everyone else.

Pmk

Thanks for the new thread.