Shit just got real.

[blackandwhitespottydog]

Have been very thankful for the news that there’s not been a single positive result for Coronavirus in our whole large county.
Until today, when not only has someone got a positive result, they’ve also died.
It’s a town 10 minutes away from me.
How can someone have died when a county of hundreds of thousands doesn’t have a single positive result?
Clearly there’s thousands of people walking around who would test positive if they were tested.
So scary.

Can I be nosey and ask which county you live in

I’m guessing Norfolk.

I find the thought that loads of us have it already, and have probably had it since the back end of last year very reassuring too. I also agree with the PP pointing out what an odd coincidence all the famous cases would be if there were only the numbers we know about.

My plan is to keep calm, carry on AND wash my hands.

There are thousands, tens if not hundreds of thousands, of people who have but are undiagnosed.
That situation will now only increase as they are only testing in hospitals.

I'm in your county too. It was only a matter of time before it arrived.

@AutumnRose1

You seem to have a bit of an attitude- is there any reason why?

It's not unheard of for people to feel differently about something that is happening in the world when it's 2 miles away as opposed to 5000 miles away. So, please, do stop trying to come across as better than others because, apparently, you'd feel exactly the same way if a bomb went off on your street just missing your family members, as opposed to one going off in Iran.

It's a little unnecessary to try and lord over someone as if you're a superior authority. These are tough times. Give people a break.

Just read that anyone over 70 is going to have to not go out for 4 months!! what?

Ha, just green reading the Live updates on cases and where they are located. Places like St Helens, Croydon and Portsmouth have all got 1 case...which has to be total bollocks.
No way has it not been passed on in these hugely populated urban centres.

The problem is that Britain is now only testing patients ill enough to be hospitalised. This means that the majority of cases are not being officially recognised or counted but the ones that are recorded are likely to be more serious,

Just read that anyone over 70 is going to have to not go out for 4 months!! what?
How can they be stopped if they insist on going out for trivial things (like a newspaper when they are online!)? My husband is in his 70s and won't protect himself or me by staying in. It's so upsetting.

According to BBC, most people who have died in the UK are over 80 and have underlying health conditions. It's not coronavirus on its own that's killing people.

None in my county either. Remarkable as two neighbouring ones are quite high.

I'm sure it's now in every county, it's just that there's no way of knowing. No testing, no one is to phone 111, no one is to contact their GP. We're on our own.

Hi

I would like you help please.

I have worked for my leading education employer for 10 years. Clean sickness records and a good performer too. Things are very bad with my manager and not much senior managers can do and infact no support for me but sided with my manager.

I can easily take a grievance procedure and try to fight out the situation but they aren't going to help. I could possibly get transferred to a different team also but probably wont like that either.

I am hoping they will make me redundant but I doubt they will do that either.

In short, I need to go and get another job by way of resignation.

But I dont want to just walk away without taking any benefits. If I was sick I could get 6 months full pay and in any new job I goto noone will offer me that unless I work with them for several years.

What I was thinking is somehow get a doctors note that I am sick and take a long term sick leave and handle this through my union. In that time, I could maybe get a six month contracting job and get money there plus my sickness pay. After that i wont return to my current employer.

I could get caught and if do I think I will get dismissed which is fine by me also! I am not going back there anyway so saves the hassle of resignation.

You are thinking all of this is wrong but I am pis*ed with the whole thing at work and need to take out as much as I could from the system.

My problem is how do I tell doctors I am sick? I am single, no kids, divorced. I was thinking about anxiety and depression ( I am very sorry to those who are affected by this for real and I mean no disrespect to anyone for me using this as an excuse) as these are considered as illness but cannot be proven unless your doctors says so.

Thank you!

I live in Norfolk.
I'm confused.
The population is 860,000
We were reputed to be the only county in England without a case
We finally got our first cases yesterday/today... I heard a rumour about it on train last night, actually.

I haven't heard that any of them died

OP seems to have all sorts of different info from what I can find

@Jessicalife01
Wrong thread??

There are cases everywhere. People are just not being tested unless very ill and in hospital. I can’t believe that people are so credulous that they think that the reported figures are definitive.

I’m in Norfolk too - apparently there’s 3 cases at the QE . It had to happen .

@Jessicalife01 are you proposing to get yourself infected with coronavirus?

Bedfordshire (excluding Luton) has no confirmed cases (weirdly).

Our MP has it ,but she doesn't live in Beds...sorry Tewkesbury.

@DrMadelineMaxwell

Footage on our local fb page (briefly before it was pulled) of an ambulance parked outside a local home, with a figure in full white coverup suit and facemask going into the house. Of course, it could be for another reason, but the fact that the next day it confirmed that there's a case in our authority means it could well have been identified in our time.

This happened here, too! Are you in Tameside?

OP-- as many people before me may have said:

No testing does not mean no infections. BJ's coronovirus briefing included the statement "there are many more cases than are recorded, there could be thousands". You will not know if there are infections in your area, thanks to the new genius idea of only testing people who have had to be hospitalised with advanced respiratory distress.

That fills me with confidence, how about you?

Apparently it is NHS policy not to test staff, as well. Just send them home for 7 days if they present with fever and dry cough.

Everywhere has had a lot more cases than have been tested for. There just haven't been enough testing facilities, and criteria have been very stringent because of that.

Not anyone's fault, it just takes a while to set up a new test from scratch, and to start with only one or two labs here were doing it, so tests needed to be received in the nearest hospital lab, processed and couriered to the testing lab, where there was a massive backlog.

Now more labs are coming on line, but the original criteria (eg coming from Italy or China, or contact with a known positive) have been exchanged for only testing inpatients and frontline staff.

So we're not even testing the huge numbers of people in the community, which means that the numbers of positives really don't mean anything, and true numbers are much much higher, and getting higher all the time. Expect numbers to be hitting the hospitals much harder very soon.

It's hardly surprising given that testing wasn't symptom led, it was based on foreign travel and contact with know cases. We know from the press conference that they think the actual numbers are approaching 10k.

They aren't even testing nhs staff who have been in known contact with positive cases.

My DS' friend is an ICU nurse who was nursing a positive patient who died. They didn't know the patient was infected, so hadn't taken any precautions. They won't test her or any of her colleagues. She and her family are worried sick, they have vulnerable family members.

It seems madness that they will expect these staff to keep working without testing - they will just spread it to the most vulnerable.