Worried about Cornovirus 30

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New thread.

Cheers, Angry.

Hello! thanks, Angry

Any truth in the rumours circulating that the army is present in London?

I feel a bit more peace everytime they bring in tougher measures. Closing schools and colleges makes my family one step closer to being able to completely lockdown of our own accord.

Interesting
twitter.com/Peston/status/1240042142678089730

Thanks for the new thread.
I feel happier now they've said they'll shut the schools. What about colleges though? My course is made up of students who are all parents of young children, bar 2. The tutor also has young children and elderly parents so I don't see how they can continue the course. On another thread a poster has said their child's nursery is going to stay open SS the government hasn't instructed them to close. We need lock down.

Thank you, I am so stressed, currently on hold to Santander about a mortgage holiday, I think it's going to be a long wait...

Will the closures also apply to childminders do we think?

“There are significant numbers of people who have died but whose death hasn’t been attributed to the coronavirus because they died at home or in a nursing home and so they weren’t swabbed,” said Giorgio Gori, mayor of the town of Bergamo.

Gori said there had been 164 deaths in his town in the first two weeks of March this year, of which 31 were attributed to the coronavirus. That compares with 56 deaths over the same period last year.

Even adding the 31 coronavirus deaths to that total would leave 77 additional deaths, an increase that suggests the virus may have caused significantly more deaths than officially recorded.

www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-italy-homes-insigh/uncounted-among-coronavirus-victims-deaths-sweep-through-italys-nursing-homes-idUSKBN2152V0?il=0

And here I was hoping they were somehow over counting.

Scientists have been sounding the alarm on coronavirus for months. Why did Britain fail to act?
www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/mar/18/coronavirus-uk-expert-advice-wrong

Thanks for new thread.
Hope everyone is well and adapting.

@rinoachicken As far as I'm aware, childminders aren't currently affected, but I would make back up plans in case your child minder becomes ill.

I'd expect them to have to close if a child in the setting was known to have coronavirus.

This. Very sensible.

Might help to add the photo 🙄

Ffs, I did!! I give up 😂

The trouble is, kids wont stay home. They'll be out, together.

Just popping back on here. I had to step away last week as I was so angry at piss poor govt response. Schools closed at last. Right move but weeks and weeks too late.

I'm going to fail this year at uni because I'm going to have to sit exams online in a house where DH is on Skype call to the office continually all working day, the kids are rampaging around and I'm going to have to do all their school work with them - and have no time to revise and will probably have to sit in the car to do the actual exams in peace.

Mine will stay home. No arguments.

Mine are staying in the bloody house!!

The figures coming out of Italy today are frightening. Why are cases not decreasing yet?

Tbf, students off school mostly won't gather in groups of 30 indoors, and if they are outside, it does reduce the risk of spread. Gathering in small groups is still less risky than going to school.

And knowing the students I do at school, they won't be going out every day, or if they are it will be to something pretty isolated (e.g. to look after a horse etc).

I think mine will be communicating via the medium of emojiis and howling like wolves across Google Classroom. So pretty much normal really.

I just want to hibernate right now. I'm scared yet it doesn't seem real. The children are driving me mad, I have a court hearing I can't attend, and I don't have any chocolate except chocolate hobnobs. Oooh actually I have a family pack of mini eggs that were for easter cupcake decorating. They aren't as nice as they were years ago but these are desperate times.

Can anyone tell me about airports. Do airports stay open during a lockdown? I think if there are people on holiday we would have to let them back??

I heard on radio today that there are some repatriation flights going on.