Bored of the madness

[2dogsand1baby]

So now I can't buy toilet paper or nappies in my local store and can't book a doctors appointment...!

I get the "fear of the unknown" but seriously!?

It's no worse than flu! Flu kills too and (most) people don't panic buy every winter. COVID only seems to be affecting people with underlying health issues. The flu vaccine doesn't always work as influenza changes all the time. I don't get it.

I'm just so bored of all the drama.

Unless I'm missing some vital information that hasn't been shared publicly?????

We are more crowded than Italy and have some of the busiest air space and airports in the world. What does this tell you? Also the tube.

Agree @todayisnottuesday. Some people I think are viewing it like some sort of Netflix dystopian drama and are thriving on the drama

@Seventyone72seventy3

I don't think you have understood the problem. The problem is that a relatively high proportion of people who contract the virus will need hospitalization - often in a high-dependency ward. This is obviously bad for them but it is bad for anyone who needs/will need medical for treatment over the next few weeks or months for any reason. There just won't be the beds/staff to cope. This is why people are being urged to isolate themselves. It is true that lots of people will not contract the virus without serious problems but enough people will need hospitalization to bring the health service to its knees.

I think that’s a slight exaggeration. From what I’ve heard the majority of people will not need such care and will go on to make a full recovery. They’ll feel very poorly but they won’t need hospitalised.

Look at world o meter properly you can then make your own decision.

From what I’ve heard the majority of people will not need such care and will go on to make a full recovery. and where have you heard that?

10% or more will need weeks in a critical care unit, as has been the case in Italy.

I’m a little fatigued at having to spell out to other people who haven’t bothered to read or listen to any proper facts and spill out myths like they NHs is being over run by people with colds’ and ‘buying toilet rolls is plunging us into recession’...

Honestly

Yup.

If governments say run. Run very fast. Except ours which seem to be going against world virus experts?

What? So you're telling us to do what the government says, but only if we agree with them then?

'Except ours' - all the other European countries have imposed this so called 'lockdown, then, have they?

10% or more will need weeks in a critical care unit, as has been the case in Italy

Yes, IN ITALY - not worldwide. You cannot apply the 10% figure, based on one country of over a hundred with cases, and call it either representative or a fact. It is ludicrous.

Look at world o meter properly you can then make your own decision

Yes, but please don't spout that 'decision' as fact though - looking at a load of random figures does not make you qualified to do that.

@Freezingold

Well a pp said her GP basically said her son will be fine and recover on his own even if he gets it. That’s one GP who doesn’t seem overly hysterical.

Also I seen a Canadian doctors post on FB who specialises in infections disease and he pretty much said the same. Whilst advising to be vigilant, he was more concerned with the hysteria and panic buying (hoarding!) and how that could quickly escalate in to thousands if deaths because doctors can’t get the face masks, the cancer patients are left even more vulnerable to infection due to no hand gel.....

I’m not for reading the daily mail to be honest and a source quoted this that and the other....

Also 10% that would need prolonged hospitalisation would also count for most of the over 65’s which makes sense as they’re the ones that seem to be hardest hit.

Some people I think are viewing it like some sort of Netflix dystopian drama and are thriving on the drama

Agreed, @PointlessAddict. It's the absolute joke of 'statistical facts' (courtesy of worldometer no less) that are upsetting me! Fuck me, have I stumbled into the retirees of the 80's/90's unemployment figure production relaxation lounge or something?!

It amazes me that some posters are so incensed by people talking about CV, yet here they are, still going on about it at gone midnight, having blathered away on this thread all day.

That’s one GP who doesn’t seem overly hysterical

Thankfully, I think hysterical Dr's and nurses are rare.

It amazes me that some posters are so incensed by people talking about CV, yet here they are, still going on about it at gone midnight, having blathered away on this thread all day

Sorry, not sure if you mean you or me?

Anyway, I haven't seen anyone 'incensed' by CV discussion per se, a lot just don't seem to like people who help stir up panic.

@today

It’s a good job or there’s be closing the hospitals down. Imagine GP’s walking saying ‘no we’re dealing with it... goodbye’

Honesty it’s one thing being worried but this hysterical behaviour is just not helpful 😳

It is just flu.

Science is about fact not emotion.

Flu is deadly, sometimes more deadly and occasionally very deadly.

It is just flu.

The figures relating to infection and mortality are pure fiction.

Why people on here are obsessed with parroting the daily figures is a psychological matter.

Apologies SnoozyLou - I've just realised that clearly wasn't aimed at me after all, no one with a posting history as proliferous as yours could have the temerity to take a pop at me for the time I've spent on here.

It’s a good job or there’s be closing the hospitals down. Imagine GP’s walking saying ‘no we’re dealing with it... goodbye’

Or nurses saying, OMG, your temperature is 38 - I'm terrified you are going to die like the last person with a temperature did - we need to take action, NOW!!!

Just wouldn't work really, eh.

Honesty it’s one thing being worried but this hysterical behaviour is just not helpful

Agreed.

My elderly relatives and neighbours have had the flu jab. The vaccine for this is 12-18 months away and we don't have the facilities to make it in this country.

The NHS are going to face tough choices and will not have all the beds and equipment for every coronavirus/pneumonia sufferer and many will die as a consequence.

This is not the flu, it is much worse.

Crikey.... you're all still here?

www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/09/can-a-face-mask-stop-coronavirus-covid-19-facts-checked
10x worse than flu

It isn't the flu, no, but how much worse it is than flu remains to be seen as accurate morbidity rates for this aren't yet known.

10x worse than flu

Could be, not is.

www.who.int/dg/adg/aylward/en/
I hope you are right today rather than the WHO scientist who investigated the deaths in China. I still hope this will all blow over, but the scientists and clinicians investigating the disease Covid-19 seem quite despondent.

BonnesVacances Mon 09-Mar-20 14:40:35
Every time an OP starts a thread like this, it just shows their ignorance. I'm bored of that, if that helps?
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I understand perfectly. If the op decides to self isolate she could do some English grammar revision online to pass the time.

Even if it is just flu, which it isn't. That pushes the NHS to breaking point every year, having flu plus this every year would be a nightmare, even post vaccine.

It’s not flu. It’s called SARS-CoV-2. Google it.

Not taking it seriously is just silly.

Those saying it’s just flu are just callous IMO. I have parents in their 70s I have a heart problem and my children have asthma. One of them with half the lung capacity they should have. They also have another underlying condition.

To look at us you would not guess and all contribute to society in a big way.

And I know of a person near us who has just booked a skiing trip to Italy. Sorry but I see that as selfish.