Worried About Corona Virus- thread 32

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lmerc you need to take a break from social media as it's feeding your anxiety. There are millions of families like yours worldwide who are in urban areas and in flats - they are coping because they know that it's the only solution. People on here have relatives who are on the frontline of this - teachers, NHS staff, carers, supermarket staff and others. They are putting themselves at risk all day every day - they also have families and worries but they keep on going. You need to develop a positive attitude so you can take care of your children - at the moment social media is not a good place for you - I am sure it's just your anxiety talking but you are coming across as incredibly selfish

Should move the figures to a set time between 4-6pm.

Imerc- in some ways, the worry about lockdown is worse than the lockdown itself. Once it comes, you do just get on with it. Because you have no choice, and because you know there is nothing else you can do. In many of the locked down countries people live in small flats, in big cities. They have children. They are getting on with it.

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Scottish test numbers: 23 March 2020
A total of 9364 Scottish tests have concluded. Of these:

8865 tests were confirmed negative
499 tests were positive
14 patients who tested positive for coronavirus (COVID-19) have died
Health board Positive cases
Ayrshire and Arran 34
Borders 12
Dumfries and Galloway 18
Fife 19
Forth Valley 40
Grampian 24
Greater Glasgow and Clyde 152
Highland 12
Lanarkshire 58
Lothian 59
Shetland 24
Tayside 47
Last updated on 23 March 2020. The latest numbers will publish at 2pm each day.

The Department of Health and Social Care publishes UK figures on behalf of all UK Chief Medical Officers. Test results from Scotland are included in the overall UK figure.

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8141987/Primary-school-headteacher-Wendy-Jacobs-Barrow-Furness-dies-testing-positive-coronavirus.html

Poor lady

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Can someone explain something to me? Didn't feel like this warranted its own thread but it's been confusing me.

We keep hearing that the danger of this virus is its high infection rate, that 80% of the population is gonna get it, etc. but the testing vs. test positive numbers do not reflect that. I just read that

"As of 9am on Sunday, 78,340 people in the UK had been tested for coronavirus, with 5,683 coming back positive"

Which is a much lower positive rate. Especially as I thought they were only testing suspected cases. Or am I wrong there? Are they testing random samples?

We keep hearing that the danger of this virus is its high infection rate, that 80% of the population is gonna get it, etc. but the testing vs. test positive numbers do not reflect that.

• we aren't testing everyone
• some people will be asymptomatic
• we haven't hit the peak yet.

I think the 80% means that, in about a year's time, 80% of the population will have had COVID19 by then.

I'm actually saddened and annoyed that the public's ridiculous crowding behaviour this weekend does mean we will need a lockdown.

It's lovely weather this week and we can access (on foot, a short distance, without having to go near any other humans) a large tract of woodland which is usually very empty. Would do us plenty of good to get out there rambling in the woods, away from everybody. But now I feel that we can't be going to the woods for the foreseeable future, even though a lockdown hasn't yet been announced, because that would make us "part of the problem."

Similarly, many people go running every day for exercise, DH does and is actually partway through doing Couch 2 5K with DDs. I expect in a real lockdown that will be stopped as they would be a "group" of 3.

But, needs must

Ok, that makes sense about the 80%.

I guess it really depends on who they're testing. If its only 5.5k out of 78k suspected cases, that's pretty low, isn't it? Or maybe it's just irrelevant, since those 5.5k will infect 11k people, who will infect 22k more, etc.

Not everyone who has symptoms will have COVID-19.

Not everyone with COVID-19 will have symptoms.

Just because someone tests negative today doesn't mean they cannot become infected with COVID-19 in future.

The idea of 80% of the population getting it is over time, not at any one time. The infection spread in the UK is in its early stages.

@Angryrant55

Most of these people merrily wondering about are doing so because they dont give a shit. Bet they would change their tune if we went on lockdown and it was a case of the first time you are stopped outside without a valid reason it's a £1000 fine 2nd time it's a £3000 fine. If you are caught out a 3rd time you will be put as 'unwilling to comply with guidelines and therefore forfeit the right to NHS treatment. Bet people would soon manage to cope without a wonder around the garden centre with a icecream then

I am seriously going to murder my neighbors

Imerc - oh dear, are they making a racket?

Yes but more having groups of for ends round every weekend and coughing in the shared close

Access to a RP isn't essential travel. Think about it. Potential for spreading or picking it up before symptoms show.

UPDATE on #COVIDー19 testing in the UK:

Today's figures will be published later this afternoon.

We are working hard to provide you with the latest information and will tweet this out as soon as possible.

The above is posted every day. What is the point of it as we all know the numbers are coming out later ?.

Sunshine, what is RP please?

Resident parent

Is B&M considered essential?

B&m could argue they sell household and cleaning items and food?

I buy some essentials at B&M. Pet food, soap, tins, etc.