Coronavirus

[ewerk 30620]

4 minutes ago, Kid Dynamite said:

This is why it’s a big deal

 

 

Wow, so it really could wipe out the remaining members of this board given their advanced age.

[Kid Dynamite 7030]

Thread by an Italian Doctor

 

 

Edited March 10, 2020 by Kid Dynamite

[wykikitoon 20156]

4 minutes ago, Kid Dynamite said:

On a purely selfish note, I’ve got a holiday to Tenerife booked in 2 months. Is it worth buying cancellation insurance now? Or will the insurance companies just cite act of God bollocks

I am supposed to be going to Italy in June!

[Kid Dynamite 7030]

Meanwhile...

 

 

[Renton 21627]

If there is any upside to this, is that the ignorance, lies, and bullshit from Trump is about to be exposed big time. The US is heading for catastrophe with their pathetic healthcare and social system. If they still vote for him after this, they can go fuck themselves. 

[Tom 14011]

There has to be alarm bells ringing, there’s a pandemic that will kill a great amount of people as it’s $3500 to get tested for the virus and at the same time you’ve got people like Biden campaigning against universal healthcare.

[wykikitoon 20156]

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/06/private-labs-start-testing-for-coronavirus-prompting-cost-concerns.html

 

This could start to show how many cases are in the US!

[trophyshy 7083]

Just seen the new Public Health England Coronavirus prevention advice includes instructions to stand up when you wipe your arse.
 

 

[Dr Gloom 21924]

37 minutes ago, ewerk said:

Wow, so it really could wipe out the remaining members of this board given their advanced age.

My chances of dying have practically doubled since I turned 40 the other year

[ewerk 30620]

7 minutes ago, trophyshy said:

Just seen the new Public Health England Coronavirus prevention advice includes instructions to stand up when you wipe your arse.
 

 

I CHOOSE DEATH!

[Sonatine 11391]

 

https://washyourlyrics.com/

 

[wykikitoon 20156]

It's 2020 and we are teaching people how to wash their hands

[Dr Gloom 21924]

1 hour ago, Kid Dynamite said:

Thread by an Italian Doctor

 

 

chilling dispatch from the front line

[Dr Gloom 21924]

meanwhile, logan roy briefs his news editors to produce the following report

 

[ewerk 30620]

 

 

You do have to wonder about the testing going on. My wife was unwell on Saturday with a cough, fever and breathing difficulties. She rang the out of hours helpline and was told it was probably just her asthma playing up. Turns out it was just that but they certainly didn't seem to be taking it too seriously.

[Kevin Carr's Gloves 3894]

1 minute ago, ewerk said:

 

 

You do have to wonder about the testing going on. My wife was unwell on Saturday with a cough, fever and breathing difficulties. She rang the out of hours helpline and was told it was probably just her asthma playing up. Turns out it was just that but they certainly didn't seem to be taking it too seriously.

 

Are you just annoyed they were right?

[wykikitoon 20156]

Just now, ewerk said:

 

 

You do have to wonder about the testing going on. My wife was unwell on Saturday with a cough, fever and breathing difficulties. She rang the out of hours helpline and was told it was probably just her asthma playing up. Turns out it was just that but they certainly didn't seem to be taking it too seriously.

A friend of mine had similar.  She works in the stroke ward of a hospital and she's worried about spreading anything.

She has just come back from the US and is worried after she started with some symptoms.

[ewerk 30620]

1 minute ago, Kevin Carr's Gloves said:

 

Are you just annoyed they were right?

Putting her in the garage for two weeks does have certain advantages tbf.

[Ayatollah Hermione 13873]

I, for one, will certainly enjoy the irony of the generation who calls everyone younger than them “snowflakes” dying out to a virus that does the most damage to them. It’s just evolution reacting to overpopulation by thinning the herd. If they are weak, they must go. It’s beautiful when you sit back and consider it; natural selection in motion, the cosmic balancing of the scales. On one side, the youthful, the free and strong. On the other one, all the old racist cunts who have tried to sell everyone else down the river who are at risk. You love to see it.

[PaddockLad 17281]

Consultant contagious disease virologist told Emma Barnett earlier on 5live that this is the biggest outbreak of a killer virus since the 1918 Spanish flu. Have a great Tuesday

 

 

[Renton 21627]

11 minutes ago, Ayatollah Hermione said:

I, for one, will certainly enjoy the irony of the generation who calls everyone younger than them “snowflakes” dying out to a virus that does the most damage to them. It’s just evolution reacting to overpopulation by thinning the herd. If they are weak, they must go. It’s beautiful when you sit back and consider it; natural selection in motion, the cosmic balancing of the scales. On one side, the youthful, the free and strong. On the other one, all the old racist cunts who have tried to sell everyone else down the river who are at risk. You love to see it.

 

I really hope this doesn't come back to bite you on the arse. 

[Renton 21627]

So my colleague is telling me a wifey in Sunderland is critically ill with it. No contact history with any known cases or people from infected areas at all.

 

It's out there now folks. 

[Sonatine 11391]

 

[Kid Dynamite 7030]

36 minutes ago, Renton said:

So my colleague is telling me a wifey in Sunderland is critically ill with it. No contact history with any known cases or people from infected areas at all.

 

It's out there now folks. 

Aye, currently in STDH for treatment. 
 

The stuff about tests is a tough one. I heard it’s £3500 per test, although that might be bullshit. If it is you can see why they won’t be testing every man, woman and child with a sniffle. Half the country would want a test 

[ewerk 30620]

The cost is nowhere near that, it came from an American who paid around $3200 but that was US prices and included tests for flu and a number of other respiratory illnesses. It isn't costing the NHS that.

Edited March 10, 2020 by ewerk