Coronavirus (OLD) - Page 16

tweetiepooh · 09-03-2020, 09:35

Someone from my son's college tested positive. We've not been contacted so are not in the (immediate) contact group so it's attend as normal - deep cleansed the college over weekend.

Apparently customers are being nasty to Sainsburys' staff as if it were there fault there are no loo rolls. We buy ours from Costco. Just can't understand the panic. Yes we buy pasta in large volumes because I don't go to Costco that often but it keeps.

heero_yuy · 09-03-2020, 09:51

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Remember this all started because one Chinese man was bitten by a bat (supposedly).

I thought is was a bowl of this:

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nomadking · 09-03-2020, 10:11

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Originally Posted by tweetiepooh

Someone from my son's college tested positive. We've not been contacted so are not in the (immediate) contact group so it's attend as normal - deep cleansed the college over weekend.

Apparently customers are being nasty to Sainsburys' staff as if it were there fault there are no loo rolls. We buy ours from Costco. Just can't understand the panic. Yes we buy pasta in large volumes because I don't go to Costco that often but it keeps.

Not as simple as that. It is the network of contacts that occurred in the previous 2 weeks. A passes it to B, C, D, etc, and they each pass it on to others and so on. Then there is the issue of indirect transference via contact with contaminated surfaces.

If everybody works under the assumption that they might be carrying it, and they take precautions to avoid potentially giving it to others, then it will calm down.

As far as banning large gatherings, eg sports events, the issue is not just when X gets the bug and gets seriously ill or dies, but they go on to spread it to others around their home area. One of those instances where doing something prematurely is far better than doing it too late.

RichardCoulter · 09-03-2020, 10:35

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Originally Posted by nomadking

Not as simple as that. It is the network of contacts that occurred in the previous 2 weeks. A passes it to B, C, D, etc, and they each pass it on to others and so on. Then there is the issue of indirect transference via contact with contaminated surfaces.

If everybody works under the assumption that they might be carrying it, and they take precautions to avoid potentially giving it to others, then it will calm down.

As far as banning large gatherings, eg sports events, the issue is not just when X gets the bug and gets seriously ill or dies, but they go on to spread it to others around their home area. One of those instances where doing something prematurely is far better than doing it too late.

Exactly this.

downquark1 · 09-03-2020, 10:39

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Exactly this.

Yes, but this essentially means closing down the country.

nomadking · 09-03-2020, 10:42

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Originally Posted by downquark1

Yes, but this essentially means closing down the country.

As a World Health Organisation Doctor pointed out on TV, it has worked in China. The number of new cases is just a handful.

downquark1 · 09-03-2020, 10:47

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As a World Health Organisation Doctor pointed out on TV, it has worked in China. The number of new cases is just a handful.

Even that is not assuming EVERYONE is infected. There are people operating outside the infected areas trying to manage this situation.

But yes, we need to stop all unnecessary travel and close down unnecessary communal activity. Basic services infrastructure are going to have to work on skeletal crews. Hospital workers are going to have to be heroes here.

None of this will be easy. Best case scenario is we delay it until spring and the weather kills it.

nomadking · 09-03-2020, 10:58

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Even that is not assuming EVERYONE is infected. There are people operating outside the infected areas trying to manage this situation.

But yes, we need to stop all unnecessary travel and close down unnecessary communal activity. Basic services infrastructure are going to have to work on skeletal crews. Hospital workers are going to have to be heroes here.

None of this will be easy. Best case scenario is we delay it until spring and the weather kills it.

The Meteorological spring started at the beginning of this month.

denphone · 09-03-2020, 11:15

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Originally Posted by downquark1

Yes, but this essentially means closing down the country.

Which they have done in Lombardy.

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Originally Posted by tweetiepooh

Someone from my son's college tested positive. We've not been contacted so are not in the (immediate) contact group so it's attend as normal - deep cleansed the college over weekend.

Apparently customers are being nasty to Sainsburys' staff as if it were there fault there are no loo rolls. We buy ours from Costco. Just can't understand the panic. Yes we buy pasta in large volumes because I don't go to Costco that often but it keeps.

We were in Sainsbury's this morning and it was calmness and serenity personified.

There were notices that stock was limited on certain products allbeit several pallets of toilet roll were being brought out from the stock room and there was still some on the shelves, there was some hand wash available although it was pretty limited in what they had , pasta well there was still some there but not a lot.

Bleach and anti bacterial wipes there was still plenty of that on observation.

Carth · 09-03-2020, 12:03

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Originally Posted by denphone

We were in Sainsbury's this morning and it was calmness and serenity personified.

There were notices that stock was limited on certain products allbeit several pallets of toilet roll were being brought out from the stock room and there was still some on the shelves, there was some hand wash available although it was pretty limited in what they had , pasta well there was still some there but not a lot.

Bleach and anti bacterial wipes there was still plenty of that on observation.

Bleach and anti bacterial wipes . . not sure I'd fancy that combination instead of toilet roll, although in my far distant youth a dock leaf or two came in very handy

denphone · 09-03-2020, 14:42

Latest UK figures show 319 people have tested positive for coronavirus.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/li...085f0b8d944f16

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A total of 319 people have tested positive for coronavirus in the UK, up from 273 on Sunday, the Department of Health has said.

jfman · 09-03-2020, 15:04

Government not going to do anything. I'd suggest they ask the Italian Government what they'd like to have done a week ago.

pip08456 · 09-03-2020, 15:05

Wel I'm all lready now.

denphone · 09-03-2020, 15:23

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Wel I'm all lready now.

Now which one should one use first.

**Paul** · 09-03-2020, 16:48

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As long as one infected person remains unquarantined it has the potential for most people to be infected.

Which is exactly the same for Flu, every year.

People in the UK die from Flu every year (on average about 600 people in the UK die from flu, some years are much higher, it was estimated that over 13,000 deaths resulted from flu in 2008-09) and yet the country somehow manages to carry on without insanity setting in.