Worried about coronavirus thread 23

[ofwarren]

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

So we won't be testing people deliberately

Fucking bollocks.

He actually said people over 70 shouldn't go on a cruise. He actually thinks he needs to say that....

Murray I’d take the start day of the cough as the first day of the 7.

I take regular paracetamol for chronic pain and my temperature is usually around 37.5 at the moment. The paracetamol skews my baseline.

A cough without a fever is a significant change.

@MurrayTheMonk I would count something that started today as new for these purposes.

I think by new they mean not someone who has had a long term cough e.g. due to asthma.

Right so we aren't testing except if you are already very ill or in hospital?
So we won't know who has it or doesn't have it? Erm...

Maybe it's more undesirable to bloody kill then?. Have they asked old people how they feel?

They are going to kill a LOT of people here - but the figures won't look bad because no one's getting tested.

Can I get out of this bloody country please? We're run by fucknuggets (donkeys would be giving them too much credit)

Reduce the peak my arse - don't go to hospital... don't get treated... no bugger's getting tested so that'll make the numbers nice and small.

My son is off school with a headache and a bit of a temp. Not unusual for him. Generally lasts 24 hours. Do I really have to now keep him off for 7 days? He is year 11 😩

Oh good it's better not be lonely than die.

Only testing people in hospital now. That will make it appear that the numbers aren't as bad as Italy, Spain etc.

I'm a bit confused - to everyone saying the he isn't doing enough, what is he supposed to say? I think their reasons for not closing schools are very valid? Although I do believe that sporting events should be cancelled. I'm not saying that anyone is right/wrong, I am just genuinely unsure of what people are expecting the Government to do at this point.

Also suggesting that we are 10 days behind Italy - 10 days ago Italy had about 2000 cases (I think, feel free to correct these numbers). We have 590, and the number of cases here are increasing at a slower rate than they did in Italy when they had around 600.

Part 1 - do fucking nothing

Part 2 - screw over the NHS

BernadetteRostankowskiWolowitz

It’s a big symptom of ths virus. Are you saying you wouldn’t self isolate? it’s people like you that’ll spread it around more

@Bercows I guess you have to take into account your own normal, but it's less than a 1 degree rise, so bear that in mind when making decisions.

It's a cough. Most people I know have a cough once in a while. There's at least 4 people in our office with a cough currently.

I won't self isolate for a cough alone.

He is scared.

And totally out of his depth.

Isolation is preferable to death by covid in a sports hall I'm sure!!

Laura Kunesberg saying what everyone is thinking TBH.

I am a little worried that I have read this and Chris Whitty apparently has not.

"In the Singapore cluster, between 45% and 84% of infections appeared to come from people incubating the virus. In China, the figures ranged from 65% to as much as 87%."

[https://www.theguardian.com/science/2020/mar/12/coronavirus-most-infections-spread-by-people-yet-to-show-symptoms-scientists]

Why are we taking a different approach to other countries?
I don’t understand this at all.
Simple things put in place have to help surely?
Stop mass gatherings for a bloody start!

And if he says peak one more time I think I will explode!

What is the point in increasing testing capacity, if we aren't going to be testing any more people (except hospitals)?