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Originally Posted by denphone
Given my underlying medical conditions and being only a few years from 60 l have for the last week self isolated and given the scenario's being talked about in government l will be doing it for a long period yet.
My parents are aged 70 plus and talking to them on the phone they know that a long period of self isolation for them both is inevitable now.
Their words were to me we will cope as many had to cope with 2 world wars and their sacrifices that were made there.
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Sound advice; one of those that recently died in the UK was only 59!
It's been said that those most at risk are over 50 (40 in some reports), especially those over 80, so I can't understand why those between 40/50 and 69 aren't being targeted in the same way with this advice. Maybe it's because we would stop functioning as a country altogether if this group also temporarily withdrew from life outside.
I've just seen a woman dying from it on the BBC1 news and it's rather upset me. Apparently, it's an agonising death and like drowning without water, so It's well worth taking precautions.
Around one out of every six of those who get Covid-19 becomes seriously ill and develops difficulty breathing, according to the WHO.
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Originally Posted by downquark1
Boris' plan rests on immunity and these reports being a mistake.
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This was my fear earlier on. Chris had this to say:
'You can’t catch the same virus again. If it mutates rapidly, you could catch a mutated form later, but that would technically not be the same virus. So far scientists have identified many dozens of mutated variations on the original infection but they are all essentially still the same virus. To give you some idea how far a coronavirus might have to mutate in order to become sufficiently different to cause reinfection, a Dutch laboratory has had some early success with a vaccine for SARS1, which killed around 7,000 people in 2002-2003. SARS1 and the present virus are both coronaviruses; the present one is also designated SARS2. So even though this one is sufficiently different to be a distinct virus, immunity against one does appear, at this stage, to confer immunity against the other.
In any case, the government’s present strategy would still protect against the coronavirus causing covid-19.
I also don’t believe at present there is any credible evidence that this virus exhibits rapid mutation leading to so-called re-infection. There are a couple of anecdotal reports but these are being pounced on by a global news media whose entire operation has now been given over to coronavirus coverage. They’re going to repeat anything anyone says about it, without necessarily assessing its credibility or assigning its proper significance first.'