Worried about coronavirus thread 23

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Welcome to thread 23
Here is a link to the previous thread
www.mumsnet.com/Talk/coronavirus/3845520-Worried-about-coronavirus-thread-22

Step Change is expected - move from containing to delay. < Rita Chakriobarti on BBC News just now.

Can anyone tell me where I could get a thermometer? My sister is ill, 111 won't test but I'm worried about her.

@Rocketmam May I ask how you reached this decision? I know if I said to my husband about it, he'd think I was crackers.

There was also a very handsome professor (French/Belgium? - Nicolas Locker or something similar) from Surrey University on TV yesterday.

@georgedawes Local chemists? Local Supermarkets and their in store pharmacies?

What's actually the point of shutting schools/banning flights? OK, we put it off for a month. Then when we re-open, we instantly get reinfected and same problem.

But even with mass closures the likelihood is the disease will continue to spread. Just as containment and contact tracing failed to prevent the spread of the disease. Closures will keep the infection rate at a level the NHS can hopefully cope with, rather than waiting until things get as bad as Italy to do too little too late.

georgedawes
I got one for dd last week in Boots. Everywhere else seemed to be sold out.

thanks cjt, she can't go out and I'm not nearby so wanted to get one online if possible. Can't find anywhere though!

@georgedawes Amazon?

Apparently Scotland has just gone into lockdown also

The things that seem to work on surfaces are sodium hyperchlorite (bleach) min 0.5% solution (1:10 mix of most household bleaches which are 5% solutions) [[https://www.thesun.co.uk/fabulous/11112200/coronavirus-beat-using-bleach-cheap-tesco

Also and hydrogen peroxide min 3 % solution [https://www.consumerreports.org/cleaning/common-household-products-that-can-destroy-novel-coronavirus/]]

Also alcohol based cleaning products min 70% alchohol

Other disinfectants are not as effective

Milton tablets are bleach but you need to dissolve a tablet in a litre not in 5 litres like the instructions say (which is usually for baby bottles) www.checkout.ie/a-brands/milton-88522

can't find a decent one on Amazon unfortunately

sorry that article says 3% hydrogen peroxide bur the paper I read on research this this said 0.5%. I'd go with 3% to be sure

Rita Chackrobarti has just said "the COBRA meeting that is happening in a few minutes" so perhaps it hasn't even been had yet?

Scotland talking about banning large gatherings, NOT lockdown

Once again, can we PLEASE stick to the facts??

Apparently Scotland has just gone into lockdown also

According to whom?

@cjt110 it's scheduled for 1.15 I think

Gatherings of more than 500 people are set to be banned in Scotland from Monday, Nicola Sturgeon has said

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Herald

@georgedawes Ebay but not 'til 18 March

Our current work guidance (Government dept, one of the larger ones.
"If a family member has flu or flu like symptoms, employees must come into work as normal unless they are ill themselves"
FFS! There's no way of knowing if it's CV as they're still only testing if you've been overseas (unless that's recently changed?)

Unless Scotland have literally just changed their mind, they are not going into lockdown at all. How ridiculous.

Apparently Scotland has just gone into lockdown also Source?

Gatherings of more than 500 people are set to be banned in Scotland from Monday, Nicola Sturgeon has said

BBC literally now reporting that it hasn't been decided but nicola sturgeon is suggesting that on the basis that large gatherings have to have police/ambulance attendance and they're needed elsewhere

Gatherings of more than 500 people are set to be banned in Scotland from Monday, Nicola Sturgeon has said

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Probably this @avocadoowl

Nothing mentioned on bbc news about Scotland.. other than that NS will be putting her point across in the cobra meeting that is happening shortly.

If govt are worried that people will get bored and break restrictive measures if they are implemented too soon.. why won't they just make it a legal requirement for people to isolate, curfew etc etc? Surely it's better to act now with strict laws, than later?