To be worried about Coronavirus - Part 8

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Did my usual Sainsbury's online shop earlier and a number of frozen meals were sold out.

@copperstrike76 DD is at Alton College, all her local friends are going in so she is too, unless advised otherwise. DS works in Haslemere, in one of the shops, I think they are just following the handwashing etc advice.
I'm a bit torn between wanting to know who it is, having been at the Health Centre, and not wanting to know.

Dementedma that’s good news about your brother. Is he in lockdown? How is he coping? Have they switched the internet back on there?

Mumps fortunately won’t clog up our health service like this could do even though it is a horrid illness, so whilst your worry is warranted I think you should pay some attention to this too just to be on the safe side.

@Oakmaiden Thing is, if you know someone who has it, then you almost certainly know who they are. And if you don't know them, why would you need to know?

You are right. I guess what I meant was I can kind of understand why they would say that. But understandably they want to protect that person's privacy. However, there were people on that forum worried that if the person was a commuter they might have sat next to/near them on the train to Waterloo or something, which I can understand.

My son is at a school in Swansea that is attended by the sons of the confirmed case in Swansea. The boys were taken out of school on Tuesday so were only in for a few hours. The advice locally is that school is open as usual so we can only wait and see I suppose.

I have moments when I get really anxious about it. I needed to buy soap at the weekend and the shelves were bare; I did manage to find some bars of soap at the back of a shelf so we do have hand wash facilities but I am pretty certain my sons won't wash their hands at school very often. It's pretty grubby in school at the best of times!

Someone posted in my local "swap and for sale" Facebook group that a local family have just come back from Italy and aren't isolating themselves because they don't have a cough. I'm not sure where in Italy they've been but I have to admit it worries me. The problem now is that people are going crazy over the post and demanding they be 'named and shamed'!

I screenshot the post and sent to a friend who said her friends inlaws have just come back from Italy too and aren't self isolating because according the Gov rules they don't need to.

I don't know what to think right now but with the increasing numbers coming from Italy I think people need to be isolating if they've been recently but short of rounding these people up and forcing them into isolation it's not going to happen.

I don’t want them naked but I’d like the town. Some herts towns are very small, some are huge. If it were one that wasn’t mine, I’d feel relieved and if it was mine, I’d feel prepared. The secrecy I feel is adding a lot to people anxiety.

I've a hospital appointment for diabetes related stuff in Leeds on Tuesday, and we've just had two cases (three, if you count the Ilkley one who came to the LGI) - great timing :/

First one in Tayside, Scotland. Beginning to get worried

Naked! Named obviously, I don’t want any coronavirus patients to be naked

Just don't know how to stop thinking about it, it is so hard to switch off when it is everywhere.

@MaryHerbert great if you have that set up but what if you have those taps that you have to push and hold down whilst in use and no paper towels?? Slap on some hand sanitizer too? I hate taps you have to touch or well anything really!

I don’t want them naked

I assume you mean named? Either way the auto correct gave me a much needed giggle.

Speaking of soap the soap dispenser in our local Sainsburys is nearly always empty.

@NervousInYorkshire have you been able to find where the Leeds cases are? I found the Bradford one but can't see anything on Leeds.

Can anyone explain how you get home from abroad then self isolate successfully? I mean you'd have to travel through the airport, on the plane, airport in the uk, transport yourself home before getting home and shutting the door for 14 days?

Brazil has so far confirmed only two cases of coronavirus - both Brazillian citizens who had been in Italy.

But a report in one of the country’s leading newspapers this Sunday says there are now 252 suspected cases - 136 of them in the state of São Paulo and 19 in Rio de Janeiro.

Can anyone explain how you get home from abroad then self isolate successfully?

Short answer, you can't.

If any of the Tenerife holiday makers are positive (but have not shown up on the tests), then they've just been given the opportunity to spread it to yet more people.

Does anyone know how long the test/confirmation takes? Are these new people those who have reported symptoms and been tested TODAY or did they report and get tested before today and it’s just today their test came back? Hope that makes sense.

The boys were taken out of school on Tuesday so were only in for a few hours.

That's interesting. One of them is on the same class as my son (I didn't know there were 2 brothers - though my dd says there is a sister at college) but completely failed to notice whether he was there or not.

The rumour mill (which my dd is, i think, surgically attached to) seems to think he was in for most of the week, but then that is a far more exciting thing for the rumour mill to think, I suppose.

NC as obviously this outs my location a bit. I’m finding it all a little confusing - has the GP been confirmed as a case? Haslemere is my parents surgery and the GP’s wife works at the surgery in my village. The local pub is closed for a deep clean because the affected patient went in there, and a family at the local school are self isolating because they were in contact, but school will be open as normal tomorrow. I don’t know what to do for the best!

@usernotfound0000 - all I've seen is that the leeds cases were both infected in Iran; nothing yet about which area they're in.

I have asthma and from the outset I recognised it as a virus that really gets me.

The way I see it is that I've probably had a number of corona viruses before. I have to follow my asthma plan carefully, exactly as I do each winter, fearing a fucking cough. Also have hypothyroidism and fatigue can be an issue if I'm ill. I'm not feeling especially worried for myself, more so for my son who has asthma but then I'm worse than him. I worry for my parents.

There's the potential for any virus to get to any of us (my close family) every winter. I'm not anxious as at least I know it's possibly coming and I know we all will do our best.

I'm more concerned about managing to get through containment, food shortages etc.

All we can do is be sensibly prepared and follow instructions.

I'd be more worried if I were immune suppressed and do know some who are.

Results from the tests are usually back within 24- 48 hours. However, others have reported waiting for several days / a week.

Spain reports 8 new cases of coronavirus, or 26 new cases so far today, raising total to 84; at least 5 people are in critical condition t.co/eUoE2b20hL