Worried about corona virus thread 27

[Michelleoftheresistance]

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I will copy over all the links in a min.

Finding it difficult to sleep. This all seems to be building now. As soon as it's light I will go for a ride and try and de-stress. I need to build up my lungs and my fitness if I am going to face this thing. Corona virus training. This is becoming very real and very scary.

I don't really care if I die

You ok Lynamic?

That’s it, I’m keeping the kids off, will phone in and say they’ve been coughing in the night. I’m self employed so won’t earn but we’ll cope.
The way I see it this gives us more of a chance of me being able to care for my elderly parents, mum with dementia, my husband more of a chance of staying corona free and keeping his business going (20 staff) and potentially takes some burden off emergency services.

If you don't understand how bad this is yet then I'm jealous

That'll be the firm I work for. They've set us all up to WFH, but won't tell us to until the government tells them to. It's ridiculous, IMO.

The majority of us travel in on the train, so are sitting ducks for exposure.

Though I've not heard of any other firm in the city sending people home to work either, so maybe they're all as stubborn as each other.

Can't sleep a wink myself.

I can't get over that first the government say they are testing , then they say they will only test severe, then they say on Friday morning they will after all set up local testing centres. Then hospital cases only, and this morning from what I've read in the Guardian, not even hospital workers. And they are at higher risk because of repeat exposure. It defies belief.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/15/uk-coronavirus-crisis-to-last-until-spring-2021-and-could-see-79m-hospitalised?CMP=ShareiOSAppp_Other

Yes I'm fine Murray thanks for asking

Spoke to parents yesterday. One of whom is 89 with COPD and breathing difficulties anyway.
Me ' you need to be self isolating NOW wether the government have told you to or not-you've got enough food for months in the freezer and whatever you need someone will bring round'

Parent ' oh yes we are, we are, wouldn't want to risk it....'

Me, relieved 'great, so what have you been up to today then?'

Parent ' oh well we popped to Morrison's....'

For fucks sake!!

#Covid19Walkout is the top trend on Twitter this morning. Secondary school students, parents and teachers just deciding not to go.

The health service cannot cope with the sheer number of people with symptoms who need to be tested because laboratories are “under significant demand pressures

That'll explain why we're not following WHO guidance there then

It's pathetic - do they not think Italy, Spain etc are also under 'significant demand pressure', yet they are still managing to test widely and contact trace as did Wuhan.

Compulsory attendance is outdated it is about time

I think it was inevitable but in some ways it's quite heartening that without any logical direction, people begin to think for themselves and do what appears to be the sensible thing. (The downside being that lots of people also do unpleasant and ridiculous things I suppose-but you have to hope that common sense and kindness will prevail).

@bananacakeZ think I commented on the ex polys resisting closure. Over the last day I've definitely seen a tone change with mine who have now stated they were previously following govt advice but are meeting and announcing today and I sense a u turn coming.

Lots of the older students refusing to go in, friend messaged me earlier offering to drive in as it's worried with commuter trains - but I'm not going in anyway. I have a routine cold - totally normal set of cold symptoms for me (face feels like it's going to fall off because my sinuses hate me, throat sore and ears bunged up - the snot will come by about tonight) but in the current climate I don't even want to be spreading that around so I'm praying for the closure asap

Kuponut I don't know if you are at the same uni as I work, the timescale of meetings today is the same here in BCP area.

I think it will be closed to students and staff carry on as normal. I don't know how if you are in a mainly student facing job we carry on as normal!!

www.facebook.com/194575130577797/posts/2675615092473776/?sfnsn=scwshmo&extid=vQFVAV7eZxwYfU1E&d=n&vh=e

Hopefully that works - if not it's on the cbeebies FB if you scroll down a bit. A very good Q and A pitched at kids from the Operation Ouch twins explaining symptoms and the like in a not anxiety provoking way.

Will be sharing it with my two when they get up might be worth finding a clickable link and adding to the top of post links

www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/51861089 more direct link to the Dr Chris and Xand vid (seems to need desktop site to load the vid though)

Am I alone in thinking there’ll be a political shitstorm of epic proportions once the UK population realise that the Government is taking the opposite approach to all other countries, and actively wanting us to get Coronavirus (unless old
and vulnerable) in our tens of millions over the coming months?

The shitstorm will build slowly, but once we’re the country with significant numbers of deaths and critical cases amongst the under 60s (which has to happen of millions are to get it, even though proportionally the numbers are relatively small), as other countries’ numbers fall, the outcry will become deafening!

And that the UK will literally, if bizarrely, become a pariah state if it encourages numbers to rise as other countries do all they can to contain it.

Their tactic may be right scientifically as containing this may just be delaying the inevitable, I don’t know, but politically it’s going to be enormously hard to follow through on!

@Eeyoresstickhouse I'm actually a mature student. I've been raising concerns about things like our placement in care homes for a good fortnight or so now but was just being "negative" apparently.

I wonder if we can get rid of the conservatives after this

Tory MPs are doing a coordinated mass tweeting session of the following message this morning:

^The PM is calling for a national effort for ventilator production. We have received many offers to make ventilators and parts.
If you can manufacture, call the BEIS Business Support helpline on 0300 456 3565.^

A dedicated team to receive your calls will start at 10am today.

I'm guessing it's part desparation and partly to try and look as if they are doing something.

The bottom line is it's because we do not have enough ventilators.

Thanks for all those informative (and terrifying) posts, @RedToothBrush. How are you doing? You're up very early.

Meanwhile Uzbekistan has avoided any cases so far because from the outset they've employed draconian measures to keep people from infected countries out. It's working. My DP and his elderly but healthy mother were due to go there on a Silk Road holiday in late May, of course we've been worried about this growing situation, and whether the money could be refunded. On Saturday this was the latest:

There have been no confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Uzbekistan. The Uzbek authorities have strengthened sanitary and epidemiological controls at ports of entry and border crossing points.

With effect from 14 March 2020, Uzbekistan Airways has suspended all direct flights between Uzbekistan and the United Kingdom (and France and Spain) for an indefinite period. Any UK nationals who have booked flights with Uzbekistan Airlines, including those already in Uzbekistan, should contact the airline directly, or their travel agent, to discuss the implications of this measure.

The Uzbekistan authorities have also stated that:

The entry into Uzbekistan of citizens of China, the Republic of Korea, Italy, Iran, France and Spain, and persons permanently residing in these countries, has been suspended. Additionally, individuals of any nationality who have visited these countries in the past 14 days will not be permitted entry to Uzbekistan.

British nationals arriving in Uzbekistan and who have visited the United Kingdom, the USA, Germany, Singapore, Hong Kong, Macao or Taiwan within 14 days of arrival are subject to home isolation/quarantine. You will be subject to monitoring and required to remain at your place of residence/stay for up to 14 days, not allowed to visit public places and required to avoid contact with other people excluding family members.

There's more, found here:

www.gov.uk/foreign-travel-advice/uzbekistan/health

@debygerbil

I get that some people voted for Brexit. Fair enough.

I get that some people voted for Boris. Corbyn was a disappointment.

But I don't get people who can still support the Tories as they try and sacrifice our weak and old to support the economy.

I just don't get it. Trump is just incompetent. Boris is some sort of serial killer.

@oakmaiden. No, there’s jk structural problems with the hospital that I’m aware of. It wasn’t finished as carillon the firm building it collapsed.

Someone has to go in every day and turn all the taps on and off!

I assume there’s a legal reason to do with bankruptcy payments but the govt just need to tell everyone to fuck off and take it over.

Oh I just googled and it’s got cracks and the wrong cladding. 😢

Kuponut yes, I remember your posts now. Sorry! I think most unis will be closing for students, but I don't know how that will effect work placements.