Anyone doing anything different?
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Anyone doing anything different?
https://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/...20200304194106
I've stopped coughing into people's faces when doing renditions of the "computer says no" sketch from Little Britain.
I notice there are already talks of stockpiling and supermarket shelves being emptied. It was quite tense in Waitrose earlier, someone almost gave another customer a stern look when they took the last ripe avocado.
But seriously, my company is considering asking people to work from home - which they can without too much disruption. We're monitoring the media for government advice on the matter.
I think there's a lot of scaremongering going on, hardly going to change my life
No hand gel in Morrisons....
The company I work for has an office in Bergamo, Italy. All employees except one are working from home there.
We have also had to assess our exposure particularly to disruption to supply chain with parts manufactured in the far east.
Probably true if you are young and fit. Allready ill people must be very worried.
I wonder why COVID 19 is different to SARS. Back then we referenced it by its proper name. This time around the very broadbrush description Coronavirus seems to be more common. What happens in a few years when the next Coronavirus mutation happens, will people know it is different to the 2020 variant?
I'm still expecting that I will get back to racing fitness just in time for when all public gatherings such as fell races are banned because of COVID19.
Some estimates of the death rate are as high as 5% - even 1% will be bad enough, given that most people will catch it. It does depend on how you work it out - deaths per number of cases at the time of catching it, or at the time of death, when the number of cases will be higher. A simple example - a person catches it when there are 10 cases goes on to die by which time there are 100 cases in total - so death rate 10% or 1%. The case doubling rate can be as short as 2 days. Difficult to over react I think if you are elderly, or have elderly folk, or have a bad chest. I do worry for some of my friends/neighbours.
Yes we probably all know someone who's over 70 with an underlying condition.
In context average uk deaths from regular flu are 17000? a year. The figures are large.
China didn’t get close on Coronavirus.
Will the UK?
It is also true that immune systems in many people fight off viruses on exposure.
So the amount that actually catch and present are already only a proportion that include the sick and the sorry who are already more predisposed to present. So the figures that imply x percent that catch it die, are misrepresenting the proportion who are exposed, never present.
We will see....
Looks as though it came out of a government bio research lab in China Is worrying.
Personally we are quite concerned about it, both being late 60s and traveling abroad on holiday next week (great timing!).
I am thinking the disease will be similar to flu in fatality rates. The figures suggest there are more fatalities (percentage) with Corona virus, but this doesn't take into account we have a flu vaccination regime in UK.
I don't know the take up of flu vaccination but 25 million vaccines are offered and most V65 and vulnerable will have had the vaccine and be out of the equation. This could be the big difference in fatalities, though I don't know how that theory stands up in other countries.
Unfortunately it looks like the fatality rate will be higher than with flu - the lowest estimate I have seen is just under 1%, vs 0.1% with flu. And Coronavirus spreads more easily, so most people will probably get it in the next 6 months or so. Most people do not get flu each year. One hope is that as the Northern hemisphere warms up for Spring/Summer it might make the virus less active - fingers crossed.
Don't think it's owt to worry about.
Only a bit of flu.
First case here in Cov.... :cool:
Think the bigger hassle will be people panic buying :mad:
Im toying with stocking the camper with corona beer and brandy and heading to a remote spot and sitting it out ;)
Why all the loo roll buying? I've not heard any of the "experts" say that Coronavirus gives you the shits!
It's not just bumwad, Otley Waitrose was out of teabags on saturday too. Mind you, everyone likes a nice brew when you're a bit groggy.
Scourges and pestolences are nothing new, they're there to bump a few of us off and stop us killing the planet by buying too many xmas presents for eachother. The more of us that kick the bucket the better.
The Craven Arms have responded by doing nothing apart from putting a face mask on the 'Caught by a fox' guy. I'm going to model my response on them and do nothing. As someone who makes a choice to live healthily, this lergy is a 'verzy advesarry' and i say to it what Morpheus said to Neo the first time they fought in The Matrix, "hit me...if you can".
Keep everyone over 60 in doors to stop them from catching it 🤣😂🤣👌
Caused by coronavirus.
Brett is the man who can cure viruses.
it's all a ploy to postpone Brexit, and prevent CCFC winning the 3rd division...
I've heard from two separate people who work in education, that all headteachers have been contacted and asked to "strongly consider" the possibility of closing schools from monday...
How's the cake tasting?
How the rich live.
I'm thinking now might be the optimum time to book my autumn holiday to Switzerland... I expect some bargains to be had!