CoVid-19 Part VII - 169 cases ROI (2 deaths) 45 in NI (as of 15 March) *Read OP*

Sober Crappy Chemis

whiskeyman wrote: »

Please try get out for walks.
Put your phone down and give yourself a media blackout for a few hours if possible.

True my friend.

I did exactly this today and it was positive for my mental health.

Take care.

threeball

Pseudonym121 wrote: »

I have friends who are doctors in the US hospital sector. It is beginning to dawn on their local hospitals how utterly F'ed they are. The US is going to be hit much, much, much harder than Italy or even Britain.

It may well bounce tomorrow but that's a day trade or a few days at most. As this unfolds in the US over the next year their markets are going to plummet.

Boris and Trump are going to be well and truly exposed after this is over. Two idiots with little regard for anything apart from money and enriching their mates.

Akrasia

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Not understanding you here?? Are you saying the incubation period (time for exposure to onset of visible symptoms) is 7 days or 14 days for most?

John Hopkins was saying the median incubation period was 5.1 days with 97% showing symptoms by day 11.

There are some cases that incubated up to 14 days before displaying symptoms. These may have been false positives in the original testing, but the health authorities have to assume that the incubation period is 14 days

Pseudonym121

Cork Boy 53 wrote: »

Anyone know what the recovery rate among people that have been put on ventilators is? Or is there any data for this?

[E] Well, with the caveat that this ONLY applies so long as the number of cases is kept low enough that the health service isn't overwhelmed it appears that:

[F] a) 10% of confirmed cases ( as opposed to total cases in the community ) need to go on ventilators.

[F] b) 2 to 3.5% of CONFIRMED CASES ( as opposed to total cases in the community ) die.

[F] Total number of cases is almost certainly be much more than the number of CONFIRMED CASES. We don't know how much longer although there are epidemiological models you get different numbers depending on the assumptions you plug in and no-one knows which assumptions are correct.

hotmail.com

Airlines will request (order) thousands of their staff to take unpaid leave this week.

Ulysses Gaze

rogieop wrote: »

Jesus id snap your hand off for this to be all done and dusted in 2 months. I think we are looking at more alomg the lines of august/sept before we see any normality.

If this is to be believed, the UK is truly, truly, utterly ****ed.

Britain's coronavirus crisis 'could last until Spring 2021 with up to 8MILLION people - or 15% of the population - hospitalised, secret NHS briefing reveals' - as death toll leaps 14 in a day to 35

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8114925/Britains-coronavirus-crisis-Spring-2021-7-9million-people-hospitalised.html

blackcard

Harry Palmr wrote: »

That Spiked asshole Brendan O'Neill is on the press panel which explains everything.

I thought it was just me that didn't like this arrogant, smug git.

touts

kyote00 wrote: »

aside from the virus, the potential for a global economic collapse is scary also....

Potential? That ship sailed about 6 days ago.

_Kaiser_

I'm down with my little lad since yesterday and staying for the next 2 weeks anyway. Luckily me and his mam still get on to be able to do this.

But, as stupid as this may sound, I'm worried about my own place. What happens if travel restrictions and increased job losses come into play? I don't have much, but I really don't want to arrive home at some stage to find the place cleaned out.

I'm tempted to make another run home and get whatever else I can, but she's very much against it.

Strumms

whiskeyman wrote: »

There's a lot of people worried now.
Myself included.
I can feel my chest tightening all day.

Please try get out for walks.
Put your phone down and give yourself a media blackout for a few hours if possible.

I know it's hard, but I've found it useful just trying to deal with everything day by day.
Deal with the facts you have today.
Try not to worry about tomorrow or after that. It's just to sore and hard to fathom now.
Focus on the now.

Best of luck everyone.
We will get through this with everyone's help.

Totally, good advice. Forecast for the next couple of days is mixed with showers in the afternoons so if you plan on getting out for a walk and fresh air plan for morning or early afternoon.

kevcos

Such naivety in thinking that a lock-down is some manner of sliver bullet against Coronavirus.
A lock-down is more like instant gratification, in relative terms, for people afraid to face the reality that the majority of historical pandemics lasted years not months.

limnam

caveat emptor wrote: »

Army have plenty of truck drivers although not sure. We have lots of supermarkets, not so many soldiers.

DOF is about 10k. Large supermarkets bit over 1k?

Should be ok

Bob24

coolshannagh28 wrote: »

S+P futures are down 5% ?

Maybe people wondering why the hell the Fed is making yet another emergency decision even though their next regular meeting is scheduled very soon (Tuesday I believe).

I certainly do wonder - there must be something very wrong in the US financial plumbing (repos have also rampes up like crazy).

tobefrank321

To summarize social isolation, keep to yourself as much as possible. If you have to mix with others keep it to the bare minimum. If you have to shop, pick a quiet time or a quiet shop. Avoid panic buying times. Avoid gatherings and crowds as much as possible including family gatherings. If you meet the extended family for dinner once a week consider taking a break for a couple weeks. Also, kids birthday parties might have to be cancelled or postponed as these bring together a large number of kids and adults. It only takes one person with the virus to spread it to many others.

nacho libre

Jurgen Klopp wrote: »

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The approach of managing it numbers wise needs the realization that this will need to be maintained a lot longer than people are thinking and most likely will have accept that said services will very likely see a drop in standards due to the economic knock on cause 2/3 weeks ain't gonna hack it unfortunately.

Of course it will take longer than 2 weeks, but as we have seen
the measure applied in South Korea and China have shown to be effective in improving the situation



Relying on a vaccine as the solution seems flawed, as the virus will hopefully hit its peak in terms of transmission with these measures before a vaccine can likely be produced and deemed safe to use on humans.

Strumms

kevcos wrote: »

Such naivety in thinking that a lock-down is some manner of sliver bullet against Coronavirus.
A lock-down is more like instant gratification, in relative terms, for people afraid to face the reality that the majority of historical pandemics lasted years not months.

Not a safety net but a solution to aid the controllability of the situation.

megatron989

Do we have any information on how a person who's obese or morbidly obese would handle this? It's not listed as a factor but I wouldn't think you'd be in the best position to fight it in such a state.

Harry Palmr

blackcard wrote: »

I thought it was just me that didn't like this arrogant, smug git.

Spiked moved from iconoclastic counter-culture to a bunch of contrarian asshats very quickly. They probably just saw which way the Trumpian wind was blowing.

ChikiChiki

spookwoman wrote: »

For us that are not social creatures it will be probably easy, for the ones that have to be out socialising it will be hard and I can see people not obeying it

I'm quite introverted and can work from home so this will be no bother to me. My housemate is very extroverted and needs to be out and about or having a chat. Housemate has no wfh capability.

I can forsee that being quite testing Tbh.

JRant

BattleCorp wrote: »

No such thing as common sense and a couple of pubs full of Yahoo's is all it takes to fcuk the country.

Nah, that's just the 24hour news media cycle in full swing. Everything is doom and gloom with the media, crisis centre this, emergency committee that. It may come as a surprise but the majority of people like living and will take the necessary precautions to do that.

WhiteMemento9

_Kaiser_ wrote: »

I'm down with my little lad since yesterday and staying for the next 2 weeks anyway. Luckily me and his mam still get on to be able to do this.

But, as stupid as this may sound, I'm worried about my own place. What happens if travel restrictions and increased job losses come into play? I don't have much, but I really don't want to arrive home at some stage to find the place cleaned out.

I'm tempted to make another run home and get whatever else I can, but she's very much against it.

We are a long, long way from law and order breaking down completely. I don't think this is a concern.

yasmina

skimpydoo wrote: »

He said Beasty is a great guy doing a fantastic job and we are lucky to have great people like Beasty helping win the war against Covid-19.

Absolutely love this thread for these lol gems at this time of madness.

UrbanSprawl

Ulysses Gaze wrote: »

If this is to be believed, the UK is truly, truly, utterly ****ed.



https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8114925/Britains-coronavirus-crisis-Spring-2021-7-9million-people-hospitalised.html

If the UK are fooked so are we .
The Guardian running same story.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/15/uk-coronavirus-crisis-to-last-until-spring-2021-and-could-see-79m-hospitalised

Andrew00

whiskeyman wrote: »

There's a lot of people worried now.
Myself included.
I can feel my chest tightening all day.

Please try get out for walks.
Put your phone down and give yourself a media blackout for a few hours if possible.

I know it's hard, but I've found it useful just trying to deal with everything day by day.
Deal with the facts you have today.
Try not to worry about tomorrow or after that. It's just to sore and hard to fathom now.
Focus on the now.

Best of luck everyone.
We will get through this with everyone's help.

Same here. Not even exaggerating but I've had difficulty trying to gasp air in all day. Tight chest

RocketRaccoon

My wife along with 600+ workmates all have to work in a factory tomorrow. I can't understand why it's still open when pubs etc are closing and people are talking about social distancing.

Sober Crappy Chemis

Andrew00 wrote: »

Same here. Not even exaggerating but I've had difficulty trying to gasp air in all day. Tight chest

You’re not alone. Those feelings are coming and going for me. Take care.

Steve F

kevcos wrote: »

Such naivety in thinking that a lock-down is some manner of sliver bullet against Coronavirus.
A lock-down is more like instant gratification, in relative terms, for people afraid to face the reality that the majority of historical pandemics lasted years not months.

Yep 1918 lasted till 1921 when the virus mutated to a less potent strain

igCorcaigh

megatron989 wrote: »

Do we have any information on how a person who's obese or morbidly obese would handle this? It's not listed as a factor but I wouldn't think you'd be in the best position to fight it in such a state.

It's a factor.

Blueshoe

JRant wrote: »

Nah, that's just the 24hour news media cycle in full swing. Everything is doom and gloom with the media, crisis centre this, emergency committee that. It may come as a surprise but the majority of people like living and will take the necessary precautions to do that.

169 is 0.00338% of 5,000,000.

Harry Palmr

RocketRaccoon wrote: »

My wife along with 600+ workmates all have to work in a factory tomorrow. I can't understand why it's still open when pubs etc are closing and people are talking about social distancing.

There's a big economic difference between the tertiary and the primary industrial sectors when it comes to keeping the fires lit. What's your line of work?