Would you self isolate?

[janemaster]

The advice is to self isolate if you have travelled from certain areas abroad, even if you have no symptoms. We know in other countries that not everyone has followed this advice.
So be honest, if you had no symptoms but were told to self isolate for 2 weeks in the house, would you? This would mean not leaving the house at all and staying in a separate room from anyone else living in your house.

YABU - No I would not
YANBU - Yes I would

I would self isolate for the 2 weeks if I had been in those areas of high risk. I am in a position to do so without any awkward issues arising. Wouldn't want to be a Typhoid Annie.

Typhoid Mary.

Am I wrong?
I'm not afraid of this virus. It's odds are low. And there appears to be good steps towards control and a vaccine.

@woodchuck99 you are basing 500000 people dying in the uk on every single person here catching the disease which is insane. For a bit of context China have hit their peak and cases are decreasing every day and it has currently infected 0.0014 % of their population.

Disease is nature's population control.

Or perhaps practice effective birth control and don't have children.

For a bit of context China have hit their peak

Not confirmed, and unlikely, seeing as how the virus in the rest of the world is spreading and people with the virus will be travelling back to China to start new pockets of disease - which will be much harder to predict and contain than the original outbreak.

I agree. But it's to late for that. The planet is overpopulated with the people currently living and breathing and producing toxic waste on it.

Are there posters on here being genuinely amoral for a laugh?

Even if it got to a point that 10/20% of our population got the disease they would completely shut down cities etc. For 60% of the population to get this we would need absolutely no measures in place to stop its spread and probably need to all sneeze in our hands and then high five everyone we saw.

Apologies - has been confirmed as peaking by WHO - my bad!

you are basing 500000 people dying in the uk on every single person here catching the disease which is insane.

It's not insane to think that 60% of the population could get it and that if 2% die that would be nearly 500,000.

For a bit of context China have hit their peak and cases are decreasing every day and it has currently infected 0.0014 % of their population.

For a bit of context the number of deaths and cases is likely to have been greatly underestimated and they have been able to implement quite draconian measures to control it. I'm not sure that we could do that and our healthcare wouldn't be up to cope as well.

@Furfockssake there is evidence to suggest it has hit its peak in china [ less cases currently day after day], there is no evidence to suggest it has not.

We can all say the government would not be able to contain this but we are currently ranked second in the world at being a country most prepared to deal with a pandemic.

@woodchuck99 The WHO have been into China and not once have they ever said anything about them underplaying their numbers. If they even considered that a possibility they would mention it.

The WHO have been into China and not once have they ever said anything about them underplaying their numbers. If they even considered that a possibility they would mention it.

I didn't say that they had deliberately underestimated it but that doesn't mean that they will know the true numbers. Secondly I don't think the WHO want to criticise them under the circumstances.

@tud41, realised my mistake and posted above.

Government do seem worried they can't contain it though, are talking about epidemic level and having to move to mitigation phase rather than containment. Don't know how well prepared NHS are to deal with large increase in numbers of people unwell, even if that number was nowhere near the 20% (critical) of 80% (affected) worst case scenario.

I could self isolate. Work from home and online shopping. We have plenty food in the house and an enclosed patio outside. But Mr Kalinka would also need to remain home and he is self employed, so would have no income as his job requires contact with people. We’re probably in a better positon than many. And I would not wish to be responsible for passing the virus to others more vulnerable.

Are there posters on here being genuinely amoral for a laugh?

I really hope that's what it is.

I’m not sure but they could think about how badly they are coming across

Not in a separate room no way. I have two breastfed kids so I couldn't be separated from them and there's no way I'd lock myself in a room with two toddlers for a fortnight whether I was ill or not. The absolute most I would do is stay on my own property for the period but I would need the garden and treadmill. And if I was actually sick I would expect my husband to look after me and the kids not avoid us.

I honestly and truthfully do not give a shiny shit what any of you names on a screen think of me.

Just try to look for a silver lining in every scenario.

So global disease. Bad.

Rejuvenation of the planet and a better quality of life for further generations. Good.

@Furfockssake sorry yes i posted before seeing that one.

I guess they will introduce the home test kits at some stage if it gets to epidemic levels and tell people not to come into hospitals unless critical. [obviously not sure if people will take that advice or not] If it was worst case scenario then yes i could see things going badly but none of us know how well we will cope with it. There must be a reason we have been ranked second best to deal with a pandemic and i guess this will really put the governmet and NHS to the test.

I just dont think we should write off the NHS and the government until we have a bit more of a picture of it all in the country and how it is going.

All the people going on about not having symptoms, you are aware that you can pass it on way before you develop symptoms? This isn't just a flu. It has more in common with the AIDs and Ebola viruses.

Just a quick point on @SirChing’s point above and to clarify.

Ebola can only be transmitted when the patient is symptomatic, unlike coronavirus. So that is good (plus it’s more difficult to transmit).

However, also unlike coronavirus, Ebola has a much higher death rate -

8. How long does it take for people to develop symptoms after being infected?

The incubation period, or the time interval from infection to onset of symptoms, is from 2 to 21 days. People are not contagious until they develop symptoms. Ebola virus disease infections can only be confirmed through laboratory testing.
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Just a quick Point on @SirChing’s s point above and to clarify.

So global disease. Bad

Rejuvenation of the planet and a better quality of life for further generations. Good

Yet you are only able to see the long terms gains of deaths, and not the long term gains of self quarantining.

It's for the best that you don't care what people think of you.

So the average death rate for is around 50%. Case fatality rates have varied from 25% to 90% in past outbreaks

I’m sure you don’t. I don’t really care if you do realise it tbh. We can decide to disregard what you are saying though which helps.