Worried about corona virus thread 27

[Michelleoftheresistance]

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I will copy over all the links in a min.

amp.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/16/australian-doctors-warn-coronavirus-testing-compromised-by-failure-to-stockpile-key-chemical-reagent?utm_term=Autofeed&CMP=twt_gu&utm_medium=&utm_source=Twitter&__twitter_impression=true
Australian doctors warn coronavirus testing compromised by failure to stockpile key chemical reagent
Exclusive: Medical body points to ‘very variable stocking’ of the critical reagent across different states and territories

The Australian Medical Association has warned a common reagent that is critical in the testing of coronavirus is facing supply issues because of the huge demand on Australian laboratories due to Covid-19.

And

Australia is hardly alone in facing strain on its supply of reagent.

Last week, the head of the US Food and Drug Administration, Stephen Hahn, said he was “aware of pressure in the supply system on the reagents” needed in coronavirus testing. The agency was working 24/7 to address the problem, he said, and was seeking to supply laboratories with reagent alternatives

Wonder if there is also a problem in the UK?

FFS - only now they decide to make ventilators?
This incompetence, lack of planning, lack of testing and throwing us to the lions, you really couldn't make it up.

And people are blindly following govt advice to walk off the cliff.

I have woken up feeling grotty. Really hoping nothing bad. Surely we should be at the stage of all being sent home testing kits?

Just what we wanted, ventilors

Daily briefing from Boris now.

Today's will be interesting. Today is our first day off home schooling...

Getting up with a real sense of doom this morning.

Off to work as a teacher and really wishing they’d just shut us down. I don’t want a holiday, I want to keep my family safe.

I think there's someone who's posted in one of these threads who is a HCP, pointing out you don't just need ventilators, you need trained people to operate them, and it's not something you learn in 5 minutes. So again you can throw money at a problem but that won't fix it unless you have the trained staff to go with it.

Very gloomy reading this morning, such tragic news from many parts of the globe.

Dh works for a manufacturing company similar to Siemens. His eyes rolled when he heard Matt Hancock talking about how such firms could switch to ventilator production. I don’t think he’s planning to ring the helpline this morning to see what he can do.

They won’t have the right machines? But I don’t know, maybe it’s possible. Is it just a case of ordering all the bits and putting it together like a giant Lego set?

I agree Dakota

While some people will look for a holiday, I find it offensive that this is being used as an excuse when most of us just want to keep our families safe.

@dakotafanny I'm in the same boat. I'm also wondering how many staff will come in as some were sent home on Friday with coughs etc.

I want to make it through to Easter for the sake of my Y11s especially, but I'm also worried about the staff, students and family members we are putting at risk doing this.

Did someone hack Worldometer??

Morning all. Just heard Piers on ITV asking all the questions we've been discussing. Piers are you one of us 😬

@crunchycarrot I agree - getting hold of extra ventilators is hard but potentially possible. Finding the extra staff needed will be the impossible bit.

I have a very full day in the classroom. They will be bouncing off the walls. Year 7 wil be worried. I'm worried. So hard to just keep carrying on, but look at what the NHS are contending with

@MurrayTheMonk i totally agree. a big part of me honestly thinks this may be the governments plan. to make us realize ourselves that this is serious and will not go away. we are all much more likely to change our behavior if we think there is a real danger than just by being told there is a danger.

I do wonder with the stats exactly how accurate they are.

If it's a 98% survival rate - is that simply the percentage of people who have been tested who have survived. Many many many more people will have had the disease, not been tested and will have survived.

And Dr Hilary did make one important point - by not doing community testing we will not identify 'hotspots' (until it's too late)

I'm off to my SEN school this morning and hoping lots of parents will have decided to keep their children at home. My teenagers are going to school for now but I'm hoping they will shut very soon.

I need to know, should I send the kids in.... Im in total panic. Dh won't even discuss it with me, he is apparently sick of hearing about corona at home and work.... He's gone to work.

Little one has a cough, has done so for a long but worse over night time, no temp. Eldest asthma cough had for ages, no temp. dh Doesn't give a shit and im in need of help please. Do I ask the school what they want me to do. I think an extra week is risky to send them in.

Am I over reacting??

You're up very early

DS was unsettled last night. He came into our bed and as usual kicked me out. I couldn't get back to sleep after.

The Telegraph article and what Deborah Cohen was tweeting last night has unsettled me.

The increasing amount I see about the government having absolutely no contingency planning for social care is dreadful. The lack of PPE protocol in hospitals is downright outrageous given we've had nearly two months to prepare one.

My BIL is an a and e consultant. Sil also a doctor. Other side of the country.

My gran is in her 90s in sheltered accommodation and needs care assistance. Which was hard enough to get in the first place. Everyone in my family is particularly worried about her. I'm just waiting on the news. She's in an area with one of the highest concentrations of elderly in the country. I fear its only a matter of time and then services there will be overwhelmed in only a couple of days.

And there's others in my family with relevant health issues.

I don't want to do anything or go anywhere which might help spread it faster.

Plus I bailed on a 5 year old birthday party at the last minute over the weekend and have to face people this morning. 150 invited. Simply too many for me. We saw our close group of friends over the weekend instead and pretty much said goodbye and see you in a few months. It was a bit surreal and at the back of my mind I'm wondering whether any of us will be hospitalised or worse.

I just want a lockdown to start in the UK tbh.

Part of me wants to bury my head in the sand and pretend it all doesn't exist and the other part is just looking on it all as if it's a car crash you can't take your eyes off.

All the government seems to have is slogans, tweets and press leaks. No policy nor protocol. No leadership just a now forced daily press conference which I fear will be a farce and quickly descend into anger when Johnson is unwilling or unable to answer key questions about ventilators, testing or protocols.

This isn't going away. This is new normal.

It’s trending on twitter about a mass school and uni walk out on Friday if they haven’t been shut by then.

Number12 Dh is sick of hearing about it too. I don’t know when to stop school and he is still going in to work.

Yeh I reckon at the end of this week everyone will stop.

I’m very worried about care homes and community care type roles. What happens if at 8am today all staff due in to a care home ring up and say they have a cough and they’re not coming in? I’m genuinely worried that elderly residents, etc might not get care.

Marsha, Friday may well be too late!?