Worried About Coronavirus- thread 37

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Just had some horrible news. The care home I worked at until a few weeks ago has lost eight. Some of whom I loved dearly. I can't get my head around all those people being there, and then not being there. Feel shaken up and sick. I was about to start a new job when all of this happened but now feel so guilty I wasn't there for them.
Trying to salvage a nice easter for the kids but now just want to go to bed and cry .

@Beebityboo I'm sorry.
I got news yesterday a colleague/friend took his life, he'd been self isolating for protection he lived alone.

Thank you Emerald. I'm sorry for your loss.
I just feel numb. Yes they were elderly but full of life and fun and some had may have had years left to live. I can't get my head around this. I'm so, so upset.

to all those who have lost loved ones.

I had a thread on about my neighbours having a bbq that set off my asthma worse than it already is. I've been struggling with it for about 5 weeks but had got it under decent control until that bbq filled my house with fumes. I'm a killjoy and unreasonable apparently. People don't give a shit how their behaviour affects others do they. I wonder how many are on beaches this weekend and if we will face tougher measures from Monday/Tuesday.

Humphries Sorry to have been the messenger - it's sobering reading.

Beebity I suppose they could be sent to Birmingham (Nightingale?). I think I would rather take my chances there.

I am so sorry to hear about your care home. That is incredibly sad indeed. You have nothing to feel guilty about, but please do spend some nice time today if you can with your kids.

Emerald I'm so sorry. My neighbour's friend also took their own life. I fear the casualties of those who don't have CV are mounting.

It's probably just media they are very dramatic.

I fear the casualties of those who don't have CV are mounting Without a doubt the death rate from suicide stroke, heart attack, even starvation will mount alongside Covid victims.
The services are stretched, people avoud going to the hospital with the risk of catching coronavirus. One of the recent victim's of Covid caught in during a routine heart check up.

💐 My condolences Emerald and Beebity and to all suffering at this time.

737 in the UK today. 😥

Are t the figures usually lower at the weekends due to various factors? I dread to think what they will be on Tuesday if the pattern continues. Has Italy levelled off yet or still as horrendous? I feel so angry today about it all. The delays in taking action, the PPE and funding shortages, the people put at risk, the people flouting the rules all the time as though they don't apply to them, the people who call you unreasonable for being worried about your health or that of your family. It looks like rain. We could do with a cleansing downpour as it always soothes me and will keep mist of the idiots inside.

Just heard Boris on the radio thanking the brilliant doctors' who saved his life.
Not a word about the nurses.

He did thank the nurses. Listed about 10 by name including two who did a bedside vigil between them monitoring his oxygen levels. They wereJenny from New Zealand and Luis from Portugal. Invercargill and Porto actually.

Can't help wondering if the mentioning of them was part of a plan to show immigration in a positive light. I trust him not.

Good to hear. Soundbite on the radio unfortunately didn't include that.

Emerald and Beebity and others suffering, my condolences.

Today's chart. I think I have the right total, I haven't seen it explicitly written other than 'over 10,000', but if we are up by 737 deaths today then that brings the total deaths to 10,612.

While it might be easy and justified to blame the government for not doing whatever sooner, we are all free citizens with free will. People chose to squash onto tubes and trains in London, send their kids to school, go out etc.

Hard as it may have been with worries over jobs the public have to take some responsibility.

It’s not just hard though, is it? If you’re going to leave your job and your family will suffer it’s no choice at all. Particularly when we were being told just to wash our hands and it would be fiiiinnneee! The stuff about viral load is still being played down, even when frontline workers are now dying and not only in the NHS.
The only choice many people had was not to go to crowded places for leisure purposes, but again, those events were allowed to take place, which was so negligent.

I was also scared that if I didn't send my children to school, they might lose their places or lose out on the GCSE coursework they've started.

Husband had to go into Birmingham centre every day up until quite late. If he'd said no he might have lost his job and our home.

I'm a teacher. I can't just not turn up. My husband (the main wage earner by a long way) is under threat if redundancy. He can't just not turn up. ...

So if 21 of those 10,612 deaths are NHS staff, does that show an over representation of what would be expected? It's about 0.2%. What percentage of the population are doctors/nurses/care staff? It seems less than I would expect given the lack of PPE, etc

(I'm not trying to down play it by the way, 21 is 21 too many)

I just listened to Boris's update and found it quite moving. For the first time I felt he was being genuinely sincere. I wonder if this will be his epiphany moment and will now understand just how invaluable the NHS is. Wouldn't it be something to have a conservative prime minister and government who now choose to prioritise the health and social welfare of our country above the corporate business world. Maybe he should also spend some time convalescencing in a care home to better understand this underfunded and ignored sector.

Middle ager I had a social worker harassing me to send mine to school. Can you believe that. They said it was low risk. I forgot social workers were scientists lol

The social worker is because I've moved too much apparently, and should have had more money

The vast majority of people and absolutely everyone I am still in touch with in the UK had no choice but to continue using trains and sit in crowded workplaces. Because their employers believed the lies being spouted by the govt and the CMO. What were they supposed to do? Say no, I'm not coming and be sacked?
This country-as-bad-scientific-experiment has, rightly or wrongly, (and I don't think he's all to blame, he isn't a scientist and he believed the tripe he was being fed too. I actually don't think he's a bad person) got Boris's name on it and will have forever. History will not judge him kindly.

to those who have suffered loss.

yes true about no choice in getting on packed tube train. Choice for most was go to work or lose your job. No choice about how to get there for most either.

The Department of Health said as of 9am, 84,279 people have tested positive for Covid-19.

Some 19,945 have been admitted to hospital with symptoms of coronavirus. Of those, 10,612 have died.

That means around half of all patients admitted to hospital with coronavirus symptoms have died.

Surely this cannot be right