Worried About Coronavirus- thread 39

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We are in real trouble. I am going to start getting ready now for the lockdown that will follow this clusterfuck.

Me too, Inkpaperstars 😞. Whilst dodging contagious fucknuggets who don’t understand how a virus works.

Now Boris 's posted The Video:

mobile.twitter.com/BorisJohnson/status/1259516007133175808?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet

I like the anxiety-inducing music anyway!

www.birmingham.ac.uk/university/colleges/mds/news/2019/08/vitamin-D-deficiency.aspx

Concerned about furlough.
if staff reduce hours and wages they will get paid less redundancy pay...
It's based on your weekly earnings

I've had a really low day today. I keep thinking they are going to get their act together. But every day there seems to be a new cock up

That video from Boris is simply the same message since the beginning, repackaged with new graphics.
No info about anything beyond a bunch of 'try to's and 'if possibles'

Im waiting with dread for the abject jabber jabber waffle of the Big Speech in 30 mins

His speech is only ten minutes long so can’t have much detail to it

I've said it before on these threads but it's grotesque that care staff, often with poor education levels, and basic training are being asked to take on complex and gruelling palliative care tasks. All whilst getting paid a fraction of what the nurses and Drs who are trained to do this get paid. My staff in my home are exhausted. And upset. And as a care home manager I'm also really struggling as when you are registered it's drummed in to you that the buck legally stops with you. That's frightening at the best of times in such an underfunded, badly thought out sector-technically I could go to prison if one my staff fucks up-but in a time like this when we don't have nearly enough support or PPE, it's genuinely petrifying. I'm so stressed that my hair has actually started to fall out and that has only ever happened to me once before-during my divorce. I wake up with a feeling of dread every day, drive to work crying, then stop round the corner and give myself a talking to, put my game face on and go in. It's waring me down tbh.

Ive just been told that the nursing home my mother in law is in has 2 confirmed cases and one confirmed dead with Covid. Aparently they have only just put the residents into their own rooms - they were mixing freely until last week. She was waiting to come home and had told my partner that it was in there last week. They havent sent her home yet - maybe for safety / 7 day reasons?
apparently the 2 infected residents are being treated by their own care staff. The chef is serving food on paper plates so it can all be disposed of, but Ive only heard via the rumour mill - nobody has contacted us and nobody has said anything about whether they tested everybody because if they are only isolating the ones with symptoms, how can we know if anyone is assymptomatic?

Its really worrying

MurrayTheMonk
Thats awful. Really hoping the care home situation will peak soon as London has.
Did you get tested as last i remember you being on a lot you got spat in the eye by a symptomatic person. (Hoping you have asymptomatic immunity).
I just dont think the gov have any idea what they have done to an average person and particularly to some groups.
Then reading the link on the lungs theead to a DM article on permant damage done by it.
I just cant see why the young people are so Blase. Though they probably dont remember sars.
They are distracted by the deaths.
Its the similar number who need icu and the many times that hospitalised as they are all at risk of damage

Cant wait to see the posts on the local fb page from the Boris lovers when this goes tits up.

Just to add that both my partner and my daughter are in the shielding group so we cant simply rock up at the door of the home and take her out from there - especially when we dont know how well the home are dealing with it
@MurrayTheMonk I have been following your progress and it is absolutely heartbreaking and frustrating for you in equal measure. Im so sorry you are going through it all

a traffic light system for areas seems like madness. We are in a little corner of the south east that seems to have been blessed with miraculously low numbers, but we are a certain destination for day trippers, especially if they think we are nice and safe

That is worrying nettle. Thats i think 3 at least of us now who know people in infected care homes (plus murray).
My mum said that my great aunt is getting better 90+. I dont think she had anything underlying though.

Really feel strongly uk needs to invest in quarantine hospitals our infection control is pretty shocking due to the wards etc
The first video i saw with a woman with cv, she was in an individual room glass walls etc like a proper containment.

When they brought people back from wuhan
The bus drivers didnt have masks on (they were normal buses)
They were all put in one space i think and let out after 14d.
And they returned the people back from teneriffe in the middle of a crowded plane of passengers with no testing and the hotel guests were all mixing.
Tbh i think they may uncover this to be intentional killing off to save pension money

my MIL is very frail. has Parkinsons and is practically bedridden now.
I dont know if I want her to come home and potentially put FIL at risk too - or stay there and hope she is clear and they have contained it.

These graphics are epic. It's like someone on work experience had fun doing them in their bedroom.

So we are at Defcon 4 then. Anyone who is into their 1980s films will guess which film this is from.

I never got tested in the end keepdistance. It was only last weekend that I finally got any of my staff tested at all and then they had to have only been symptomatic within the last 72 hours. I've been ok so far-was poorly with what was possibly it the week before the general lock down. I hope it was it anyway as then maybe I'm immune-but who knows?

Feel much better now I've seen Boris's little dial thingy... fucks sake..

Can somebody else break down Boris's address for me, speaking very slowly because I'm obviously hard of thinking.

So far I've got -

Exercising is unlimited but only with members of ones own household, or maybe with others if social distancing properly.

Go back to work if you can't work from home but don't use public transport if possible.

Still stay at home mainly apart from allowed activities and fines will be increased if we get it wrong.

My brain hurts.

People on Twitter calling for a General Strike. And just days ago it was suggested that overweight key workers should walk. Could well be a darn sight more!!

@HelenaDove

Do you have a link for that please - I'm not on twitter - sorry!

Biggest load of vague waffle I've heard in a long time.

Conflicting stuff like definitely go back to work if you're in manufacturing / construction but don't use public transport.. So what are you supposed to do if you don't have a car and transport services are thin on the ground and now crammed full of others who don't have a car?

As for schools, I can't see the unions or parents accepting reception and year 1 back in 3 weeks time. How the hell do you socially distance 5 and 6 year olds? Or stop them bringing cv home?

Thats good you didnt get ill. Really think with all youve got going on you deserved the tiny bit of luck to have not caught it.

I think he said schools jun1 (which is probably why the thing is today) ffs couldnt they just wait till sept?

Everyone with a shit boss, off you go back to work. Try not to get the bus, train or underground, because that’s a choice you make due to the fact that’s such a lovely way to travel.
And let’s get the most incapable of social distancing yeargroups back in primary first, what a marvellous idea.