Worried about corona virus thread 27

[Michelleoftheresistance]

New Thread.

I will copy over all the links in a min.

2 emergency room doctors (in NJ and WA) are in critical condition after treating patients with COVID-19,

OMG Red that story is terrible! Our poor doctors and nurses 😱

"What I can clearly say is that what we do, or don’t do, over the next week will have a massive impact on the local and perhaps national trajectory of coronavirus. "
medium.com/@ariadnelabs/social-distancing-this-is-not-a-snow-day-ac21d7fa78b4

Where the South Koreans were attending hospital in full hazmat suits, I will be arriving in my suit and tie tomorrow with nothing to prevent me catching it,

This is a fucking disgrace. I keep seeing pics of nurses doing drive-thru swabs wearing just a plastic apron and a surgical mask as PPE. There will be noone well enough to care for patients.

we haven't stocked up on food either. I take my mum and mil food shopping every week and will continue getting for them if they can't go out. We normally do online delivery for ours but have seen no slots available for 3plus weeks. We wont starve and I refuse to join the crazy panic buying.

I don't get it. The Govt knew it was coming, have a window to other countries yet does nothing and scrambling around for ventilators and old hospitals.
(China erected new hospitals in days with no warning).

"Good-morning, good-morning!” the General said
When we met him last week on our way to the line.
Now the soldiers he smiled at are most of 'em dead,
And we're cursing his staff for incompetent swine.
“He's a cheery old card,” grunted Harry to Jack
As they slogged up to Arras with rifle and pack.

But he did for them both by his plan of attack.

www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/15/uk-coronavirus-crisis-to-last-until-spring-2021-and-could-see-79m-hospitalised
Public Health England’s leaked documents apparently

@colouringinpro

And paramedics.
My DD has been in contact with a confirmed case. Rang 999 with false symptoms. They went in with no protection, not even considering it was CV.
I know people are scared but please, if you have to ring 999 tell them the truth - you are endangering other people if you don't.

Just to clarify that pandemic is a documentary not a film. It is about how they are dealing with flu and searching for a universal flu vaccine.

111 is still telling people it is unlikely they have it and to just stay home... obviously stay home is the key bit but why are they unlikely to have it? anyone anywhere could have caught it by now.

@buttermilkwaffles, that was a great article. Did you follow this link, to show the effect of the timing of social distancing measures? I love interactive infographics.

www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/03/13/opinion/coronavirus-trump-response.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage--

apple.news/AKsPiEf_9RfqqGYOv63Va3g

Cobr tomorrow

Scottish primaries to close for 4 months?

ChrissieKeller

Let’s hope they aren’t Doctors, Nurses or supermarket workers!

It’s grim reading

@middleager My dad is a structural engineer and has in the past week landed a job for the NHS a d some sort of temp buildings for the virus. There are definitely things behind the scenes going on

"speek" that is awful

Really hope it's not a year.
That wouldn't make sense in terms of what they said about elderly.

Have to say everything so far has been a lie/misinformation
Various timescales for peak
-no treatment (some antiviral could help?)
The figures
That they will shut schools and ban gatherings.

All to make us think it's ok to continue as we are.

They are hanging out to dry
Gps/paramedics/all hospital staff
Teachers
Parents who could be ill
Everyone on public transport
Shop staff
Diabetic/high bp and asthma
Vulnerable children

Plus if you do isolate you will never know if that fever you had was that!!!?!?!

Many might not mind so much getting it and having 3w in hospital but it's the fact there will be no beds.

Germany has a very low death rate compared to the number of cases. Why do you think that is? Is their healthcare system far superior to other European countries? Or are they doing something different in their approach?

Also, I can't remember exactly when Italy went in to lock down - can anyone recall? And at that point, how many cases did they have?

All 3 of these stories from telegraph front page

If they shut Scottish schools
Most kids in England won't go in either.
There is no way they could force a fine

I'm not 100% sure but I think that Germany attribute any deaths to people with underlying conditions to the preexisting illness not coronavirus

Really hope it's not a year.
it's the race for a vaccine and other treatments. until they have been developed, authorised and rolled out to the public it's at least a year.

Guardian. Full story linked to above.

Trying to reduce my social media a little bit before my anxiety levels get completely out of control, but just checking in to say, hi and thanks