Coronavirus

Quoted from buckstown

When this thread started I may have used the phrase "storm in a teacup". I apologise and I'm bunkering down in the short term. I have a coronary condition/high blood pressure and I've gone from being nonchalant to $hit scared.
Stay safe fishy folk and look after yourselves. Praise be for the internet and access to the outside world and I hope to see you in the near future.

Hear, hear......feel a little embarrassed that I initially trivalised the matter. Look out for one another.

Quoted from buckstown

When this thread started I may have used the phrase "storm in a teacup". I apologise and I'm bunkering down in the short term. I have a coronary condition/high blood pressure and I've gone from being nonchalant to $hit scared.
Stay safe fishy folk and look after yourselves. Praise be for the internet and access to the outside world and I hope to see you in the near future.

No need to apologise, we have been failed as a nation. Even this morning the BBC saw fit to put Tim Martin on the radio to tell the country that closing [his] pubs was “over the top”.

I’m shi1te scared for my wife just on her way to another NHS shift, my brother and his missus who work in London’s hospitality industry and rent down there, my diabetic Dad who was at Cheltenham last week, my many friends who are self employed or on zero hours contracts, my remaining grandparents who are being told they can’t have any human contact for months on end and countless others.

hahahahaha........ just before Coronation Street started they felt the need to tell us that the episode was filmed weeks ago before the virus was in effect and people seen socialising in the Rovers shouldn't distract us from the current governemnt advice regards social distancing  


where's FFS when you need him ?

Well, at least the government is starting to come through to guarantee wages of employees. That should settle one or two nerves (and stop hundreds of thousands of redundancies). More support required for workers on zero hour contracts and the like now.

If the tests which detect antibodies do actually work, we need to get them out in the millions ASAP. If you have confirmation that somebody has had the disease, you know they are less likely to catch it again. You could work out shift patterns accordingly. And, when it is all over, I hope the people facing customers/the public get a bonus for their service to the community.

After all the selfish panic buying recently my faith in humanity has been restored today.

To cut a long story short.

Went out when the shops opened this morning so I could try and get some Paracetamol for the pain I'm enduring due to a tooth extraction, just happened to mention it in the queue whilst we were all chatting but thought no more of it.
Not long after a total stranger came over to me and handed me a box of Paracetamol they had just bought, faith restored.

A key point on the BBC today (that passed without comment,).  To alleviate the sudden peak of cases on the NHS, the plan is for a series of mini-peaks that do not exceed the NHS ability to manage.

This will be achieved by allowing people to interact socially for say 2 weeks. This will in rease cases for a short time.  Then social exclusion again.  The short term increase in cases relieves pressure 2 weeks later.  Then shuts off again.

Rinse and repeat 4 or 5 times.

This means that Philip Scholfield will have have to repeatedly come-out and stay in again.

I also wondered if we could get some footy played when we can all mix. 😃😃😆😆😃😃

Did not realise that the common cold is one of the corona viruses.  After all these years there is no vaccine.  Not a good indicator.

Quoted from TownSNAFU5

Did not realise that the common cold is one of the corona viruses.  After all these years there is no vaccine.  Not a good indicator.

After all these years, the common cold does not kill you. There’s  hope.

Quoted from buckstown

When this thread started I may have used the phrase "storm in a teacup". I apologise and I'm bunkering down in the short term. I have a coronary condition/high blood pressure and I've gone from being nonchalant to $hit scared.
Stay safe fishy folk and look after yourselves. Praise be for the internet and access to the outside world and I hope to see you in the near future.

The Government never grasped the seriousness of this, talk of herd immunity,  only being mild in most cases and not being dangerous to the young. Everyday it’s on catch up , it’s very scary

If we could all take something that takes death off the table, I'm sure most of us would take 3-7 days of mild symptoms and therefore getting the "Herd" levels that B.J wanted....seems like the Aussies might be the first to produce something:-https://www.dailymail.co.uk/ne.....tter_impression=true