Coronavirus

Quoted from Marinerz93

The parts I posted previously are from the WHO website, questions and answers section, and they are saying that CV19 isn't as lethal as SARS, and the NHS gets overwhelmed every year with cases of the flu, we never learn.

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But it is far more infectious. It may be less virulent but if it's far more transmissible then it could potentially become a much larger problem due to pure numbers. There's also the risk of mutation and the more people become infected the greater the chance of the virus mutating in to something truly horrendous.

Quoted from mariner91

But it is far more infectious. It may be less virulent but if it's far more transmissible then it could potentially become a much larger problem due to pure numbers. There's also the risk of mutation and the more people become infected the greater the chance of the virus mutating in to something truly horrendous.

That is true and the CV19 virus has already mutated into two strains L & S type strains, the L type strain which is the more aggressive strain which caused most of the deaths has decreased since early January. The common type found now is the older less aggressive type S. People identified with type L were quarantined so stopping the spread of type L. Not all mutations in a virus are beneficial to it and can often limit it's ability to survive.

Influenza - During a typical flu season, up to 500,000 people worldwide will die from the illness, according to WHO. But occasionally, when a new flu strain emerges, a pandemic results with a faster spread of disease and, often, higher mortality rates.

The most deadly flu pandemic, sometimes called the Spanish flu, began in 1918 and sickened up to 40% of the world's population, killing an estimated 50 million people.

In the UK, the death toll rose to five people who tested positive for coronavirus out of 319 (1.5%).

The first, announced on Thursday, was a woman in her 70s with underlying health conditions.

An 83-year-old man became the UK’s second fatality on Saturday. He also had underlying health problems.

The third person was a man in his 60s and a fourth death was confirmed late on Monday.

The fourth death, confirmed on Monday, was a patient in their early 70s with significant and long-term health conditions who passed away at St Helier Hospital.

Earlier on Monday another patient in their 70s died from the virus. He was also suffering from underlying health conditions and was being treated in Royal Wolverhampton Hospital.

The government has today released an update on the number of UK people diagnosed with coronavirus (Covid-19).

As many as 24,906 people have been tested in the UK, of which 319 were confirmed positive.

Some serious concerns from the EFL on the financial impact this may have on clubs:

https://www.theguardian.com/fo.....d-closed-doors-games

Personally, I wouldn’t expect season ticket money back in these circumstances but naturally people aren’t going to buy tickets to matches they can’t attend.

After Saturday, we have four games left. If you work on the assumption of roughly 2,500 non-season ticket holders attending on average - that’s between £150k and £200k depending on the mix of concessions, and assumes that clubs aren’t forced by law to reimburse season ticket holders.

That’s a significant chunk of cash. Probably not fatal to us, but for clubs already with serious underlying financial health conditions, this could be their death knell.

It ain’t good.

If they wanted to put the games behind closed doors they could at least offer iFollow for the all the games for UK customers.

Here is one example of how easy this virus can spread. A 74 year old man died in Italy of a virus unrelated death. His body was released by the authorities before it was tested for the virus. It later transpired that he had already infected his wife and daughter, who in turn met dozens of friends and relatives at his funeral. Seventy of them are now in quarantine. This is just one example of how this virus can spread before it is identified.

Just hearing on the radio that it might get to the scenario that only events with small crowds are allowed to go ahead and everyone there will need to be at least 1 meter away from anyone else. At least if town games are called of we'll be able to go and watch Scunny instead.

Today's Telegraph front page.....

"Four migrants tested for coronavirus in Grimsby after being found in container 'shipped from Italy"

https://www.grimsbytelegraph.c.....irus-grimsby-3931578

The good news is that doesn't seem that people are infectious before symptoms start to show. That would be the worst case, if you could infect others whilst still feeling absolutely fine. It also seems that it isn't particularly easy to catch directly from person to person although this would obviously differ if they cough or sneeze right in your face. Most transmissions will be from surfaces so wash hands!

The plan seems to be that the authorities are going to recommend anybody feeling slightly unwell should self-isolate. Inconvenient, when most will be just a cold or some other bugs, but worthwhile considering the risks of spreading the disease otherwise. I'd hope that they will then be working to arrange widespread testing when necessary.

Notice Grimsby Telegraph still carrying pictures of empty shelves thus suporting fake news and panic buying. Only anecdotal, but when same pics were shown on Sunday I checked out Sainsbury's and Lidl in the Hillsborough area and there were oodles of noodles, dried pasta, rice and loo rolls. Sold out of my paper though! I am sure they could have found some well stocked shelves in Grimsby somewhere?  We are in a real fix for sure but the media seem to love bad news and disaster scenarios.

Quoted from Croxton

Notice Grimsby Telegraph still carrying pictures of empty shelves thus suporting fake news and panic buying. Only anecdotal, but when same pics were shown on Sunday I checked out Sainsbury's and Lidl in the Hillsborough area and there were oodles of noodles, dried pasta, rice and loo rolls. Sold out of my paper though! I am sure they could have found some well stocked shelves in Grimsby somewhere?  We are in a real fix for sure but the media seem to love bad news and disaster scenarios.

To be fair was in Asda 1930ish Monday night ...no toilet roll.....no pasta.....very few tins of peas/potatoes