Worried about coronavirus thread 24

[ofwarren]

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

The reality is that there won't be any draconian measures in the uk at least not for some time. Whether it's something you agree with or not it's what is happening.

If you want to self isolate anyway then I think that has to be an individual decision. The reality is that neither business nor the government could sustain salary payments for 6 months of lockdown so I suspect even if that was ordered by the government there would be significant financial consequences for individuals. Therefore choosing to isolate yourself might not make you much worse off than if the government had ordered it.

The government has announced it is moving into the delay phase of its coronavirus action plan

Read more about what this means: 🔽
t.co/UQmdPshiIQ
DOH

NEW: France reports 595 new cases of coronavirus and 13 new deaths, raising country's total to 2,876 cases and 61 dead t.co/eUoE2b20hL
BNO NEWSROOM

@mrshoho after 7 days with no improvement, the advice is to ring 111. The advice is also to ring 111 as soon as you normally would go to the doctors.

For question 2, they are definitely dodging that question.

@Alib838
I remember that post

I see that the UK are posting serious/critical numbers now!

In the BNO link @ofwarren posted. Unless its always been there?
Ive only been viewing worldometers

Norway on lockdown: 'Strongest-ever peacetime measures' see schools and restaurants closed, all new arrivals quarantined t.co/m2CDmVA6Tp
Daily mail

Lop

Sansa and nell I also agree.

Lop, very well said earlier.

Sansa we have so many older workers.
It's awful.

The fucking science, maintain public trust?

French President Macron is delivering an address to the nation on coronavirus. Watch live: t.co/taDF7FblSJ

If anyone is interested

'I’m surprised we’re not moving sooner'.

Former Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt says “we’ve got four weeks” to make sure we’re not in the same position as Italy with the Covid-19 coronavirus. t.co/9jEPGiIDaY
Channel 4 news

If I have symptoms, then get tested and it’s found I’m positive, I can tell all of the people at work and they can decide what to do. My kids, partner and parents who I have been in contact with, can self-isolate.

But the reality of the situation is that medical experts are working on the assumption that 80% of us could get this

They don’t have time to individually confirm that for everyone

You have to make your own decisions based on whether or not you think it’s likely you have it

Is anywhere still selling face masks? I feel now is the time to start wearing them.

Well if it's my employer I can tell you they will scoff, refuse to give you any pay until day 3, and you will probably have to use annual or unpaid leave allowance for anything over 5 working days... is what was said today.

Oh plus all head office staff to wfh from Monday (probably) but front line care services 'business as usual' and if we are short of staff as they are all off sick, we are to redeploy staff between services but coordinate that ourselves. (Presumably service managers are immune from getting it).
Oh and 'we probably won't need another meeting about this as that's the plan'.

I'm seriously considering resigning. I only have to give a weeks notice as still in my probation period. The stress of trying to run two care services with no staff for however long this goes on for is going to be awful. I can't cover Saturday afternoon as it is and it's not even really begun yet. My care staff don't get paid enough to come in and leave their sick kids or whatever. I can't blame them.

....especially as upper management don't seem to give a monkeys.

Didn't they announce yesterday or the day before thst they would be upping the amount of testing they could do?
Today they're not going to test anyone near as much as before?

So basically we won't get a true picture of new cases. I understand that we can't know the full extent, but surely the lack of testing is just dumbing down so we can look better than other countries?

Last week I was very ill with a cough and fever, DD has had the worse hard dry cough and fever for ten days.
Not considered Corona, but now I do think for DD it was.

What a shit show.

What modelling are they basing this on re people not able to stay at home?

Where is the model that people won't?

French President Macron says schools and universities across the country will be closed from Monday
BNO NEWSROOM

Today they're not going to test anyone near as much as before?

If that’s true, our number of new cases each day is going to plummet compared to every other country which no doubt BJ will use as evidence that his policy of ‘dicking about doing fuck all’ is really effective...

Ireland’s taoiseach, Leo Varadkar, announced the closure of all schools, colleges and childcare facilities from tomorrow. “I know that some of this is coming as a real shock... but we’re doing it for each other,” he said. (Guardian)

DH and I are moving to Ireland next year. I can't wait. How much more grown up their approach to public life is.

Arghhhhhhh!!

Parents won't necessarily ask gp to look after dc and teachers are gp too!!

Sky news!

Yes-only yesterday they announced increased testing capacity and today they aren't testing anyone but the seriously ill?
They are making this up as they go along aren't they?

French President Macron urges people over 70 to stay at home over coronavirus t.co/cIXpdXmaH3
AFP

Is anywhere still selling face masks? I feel now is the time to start wearing them.

wickes still have the reusable ones where you can change the filters

Thanks Hasa. I have a Wickes very close by so will pop in.

France is closing schools as well?!

Everywhere else is closing schools and we are reducing testing people. WTF

It feels like a few years ago when it was treacherous snow and every other school nearby was closing one by one except mine.

I went in, crashed my car in the process and then the school pointlessly closed early at 12pm and we had a total nightmare afternoon trying to get all of the children safely home again.

It was dangerous and utterly pointless. It was also way way more difficult than it would have been had a sensible decision been made at 7am as all other local schools managed to do.