Worried about coronavirus thread 24

[ofwarren]

Sorry everyone, I was watching that shambles of a press conference

Italy reports 2,651 new cases of coronavirus and 189 new deaths, raising total to 15,113 cases and 1,016 dead t.co/eUoE2b20hL
BNO NEWSROOM

The government and the NHS have updated the advice on #COVID19.

If you have: a new continuous cough OR a high temperature (37.8 degrees or higher), you should stay at home for 7 days.

Read the full guidance now:
▶️ t.co/oIFxrXiQnX

We will be fucking motivated to follow the instructions when there are hundreds of people dying in their homes or waiting in hospital corridors

Great question

Italy’s figures are frightening

Oooh how many will die question

I don't understand why the whole thing isn't done in waves. Eg close schools for a month. Let people who can stay at home.

Open schools again. Close again? Why not?

He is not going to answer it.

This is really condescending bullshit as well as everything else - "we don't trust you to do quarantine right"

I honestly think that those are ridiculous instructions.

Hang on are the vulnerable supposed to stay at home too?

Maintain public trust

A lot of what they are saying doesn't match up with the published peer reviewed papers I have read.

To some extent I really do feel we are being lied to.

I wasn't convinced about that before today, and I'm not normally a conspiracy theorist.

What is a “continuous” cough?

I'm am flabbergasted.

I love the fact that the CMO knows that people aren’t contagious after 7 days from showing symptoms.

Someone give that man a Nobel Prize - he is obviously streets ahead of every other researcher around the world.

He’ll have knocked up a vaccine by 5pm this Friday!

I've had a cough and painful chest since before Christmas (normal for me - I get a shitty one every winter that tends to stay put) - but am I meant to stay at home now?!

A man who was awaiting results on a coronavirus test learned midair, on a JetBlue flight from New York to Palm Beach, that he had tested positive, officials said
t.co/YgrCQUsgFC
NY TIMES

This is utter bs.

No answer to deaths

Italy’s numbers continue to be huge but I actually agree with our government in tha5 the focus shouldn’t be on testing at this stage

This is going to happen

The Chief Scientific Officer thinks we probably have 10 times more cases than we’ve found so far but still the way I see it is that unless those people need hospital treatment, they aren’t too bad

We do need to stay calm and do things that are sustainable

How many of you can manage if schools close from now until September?

And wow - not going on a cruise is will save those over 75 and other vulnerable people!

Ugh. CMO again parroting the "behavioural science" line. The whole leadership cabal is obsessed with nudge theory

This is making me panic more because I do t understand why we are ignoring global consensus. And the only reasons for that I can think of are nefarious on the governments part.

Agreed. I don’t believe them.