Coronavirus - Overall
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That article doesn't make sense. Everyone knows Ben Smith is an accountant and not a friggen doctor!
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@Victor-Meldrew my bro signed up 4 days ago and is still waiting to have his ID verified. Keeps trying to sign into the app and keeps getting told to check his email for steps in verifying ID or some such...
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Parts of South Africa are going to get hammered
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@MiketheSnow It's a great concern that if it gets a hold in Africa where in many countries the infrastructure is not very robust, the outcome could be catastrophic.
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@Catogrande said in Coronavirus - Overall:
@MiketheSnow It's a great concern that if it gets a hold in Africa where in many countries the infrastructure is not very robust, the outcome could be catastrophic.
can almost guarantee that from what I saw when I was there - the continent is one big hot zone waiting to happen - zero to sweet fuck all infrastructure
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The USA is totally screwed.
Virus has entered the USA prison system. No protections in place for prisoners or guards. Mass release of remand and low level offenders into the community. Who knows how many are infected and gone home to their families untested? If a prison gets it, would be impossible to stop the spread to other prisoners and guards Another story I read talked about a guard who was sick for 2 days coughing and spluttering and carried on working before the prison eventually sent him home.
The USA is in serious trouble. Poor healthcare for people without super duper insurance, high levels of poverty and limited social welfare. Add to that, poor levels of trust in govt, a buffoon in charge and crippling levels of partisanship making a strong coordinated response impossible. Almost the worst possible combination of factors. They're also continuing to travel like mad and due to lack of social security, employees are continuing to work.
The USA death-rate is going to make Italy look like nothing. We could see 100,000 dead in a couple of weeks. It's going to be horrific.
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@Damo said in Coronavirus - Overall:
The USA is in serious trouble. Poor healthcare for people without super duper insurance, high levels of poverty and limited social welfare. Add to that, poor levels of trust in govt, a buffoon in charge and crippling levels of partisanship making a strong coordinated response impossible. Almost the worst possible combination of factors.
And a big dose of the general anti-science streak we are seeing emerge in a lot of countries.
This is scary:
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I just hope these scroats suddenly contract respiratory illnesses and Covid-19
The scientists working to steer Britain out of the coronavirus crisis are being targeted with death threats, the Telegraph can disclose.
Members of the public have sent threats to experts on the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE), the publicly-funded organisation which advises the government at times of crisis.
A SAGE source said: “There are already all number of death threats being sent to people involved. In the last few weeks, some of the people who have been involved have received abuse in the street.”
It’s a combination [of people who are angry at the lockdown] and also this concept of herd immunity. A lot of people are under the misapprehension that all the scientists want people to die in order to protect the masses,” the source said.
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I don't want to get all full on journal here but its been an eventful weekend.
Work colleague sent home Thursday with symptoms is very poorly, her friend had been hospitalised Friday, died the same night, she was 70 so has 10 years on my colleague. Extremely sad to hear and my colleague lives alone, we are all keeping in touch with her but she's now feeling dreadful and grieving.
Two other colleagues have been poorly but manageable similar symptoms to eachother (sore throat dry cough and diarrhoea) , their husbands however are on about day 7 and feeling worse than ever, one of which works with a guy who is now in intensive care only 48.
Fourth colleauge is on day 2 of what we hope is recovery and now can talk without coughing and has the energy to get around the house. She's 62. (I work with a lot of older ladies)
A friend of ours is a male nurse at a local surgery, hes on day 7 too woke up feeling better, husband tells me he put on his Facebook he's feeling great then his wife updated it a few hrs back saying false alarm he's back downhill again.Thankful I worked those last two weeks at home and not been in any contact with above colleagues.
Really seems to be hitting men pretty bad apart from that one older lady who sadly died, also this pattern of feeling better then getting worse again hearing that a lot.Shits getting real now, definitely feeling more scared about it.
Stay safe guys.
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@R-L said in Coronavirus - Overall:
I don't want to get all full on journal here but its been an eventful weekend.
Work colleague sent home Thursday with symptoms is very poorly, her friend had been hospitalised Friday, died the same night, she was 70 so has 10 years on my colleague. Extremely sad to hear and my colleague lives alone, we are all keeping in touch with her but she's now feeling dreadful and grieving.
Two other colleagues have been poorly but manageable similar symptoms to eachother (sore throat dry cough and diarrhoea) , their husbands however are on about day 7 and feeling worse than ever, one of which works with a guy who is now in intensive care only 48.
Fourth colleauge is on day 2 of what we hope is recovery and now can talk without coughing and has the energy to get around the house. She's 62. (I work with a lot of older ladies)
A friend of ours is a male nurse at a local surgery, hes on day 7 too woke up feeling better, husband tells me he put on his Facebook he's feeling great then his wife updated it a few hrs back saying false alarm he's back downhill again.Thankful I worked those last two weeks at home and not been in any contact with above colleagues.
Really seems to be hitting men pretty bad apart from that one older lady who sadly died, also this pattern of feeling better then getting worse again hearing that a lot.Shits getting real now, definitely feeling more scared about it.
Stay safe guys.
🙏🏻😢Awful. Where do you reside?
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@pakman
UK West Midlands. Huge amount of cases piling up here, and tons you hear about word of mouth but won't know if they are actual covid19 cases or not as testing won't happen unless hospitalised.
The ones I know of that are poorly are all linked to Positive cases so more than likely.Edit. My work place might receive some of the new tests soon if they are rolling them out, will see if I can get some pics of process if I get tested for the geeks amongst you put not sure when as we are in general practice and no GP surgery is accepting patients at the moment. Just trying to maintain day to day practice with video and phone appts.
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@R-L said in Coronavirus - Overall:
@pakman
UK West Midlands. Huge amount of cases piling up here, and tons you hear about word of mouth but won't know if they are actual covid19 cases or not as testing won't happen unless hospitalised.
The ones I know of that are poorly are all linked to Positive cases so more than likely.Edit. My work place might receive some of the new tests soon if they are rolling them out, will see if I can get some pics of process if I get tested for the geeks amongst you put not sure when as we are in general practice and no GP surgery is accepting patients at the moment. Just trying to maintain day to day practice with video and phone appts.
My daughter's a first year doctor in Winchester. Cases building. Testing about to start for those with symptoms. No proper eye coverage. Doctors wearing welding masks and ski goggles!! Hope it gets better soon.
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@R-L TA!
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@R-L said in Coronavirus - Overall:
I don't want to get all full on journal here but its been an eventful weekend.
Work colleague sent home Thursday with symptoms is very poorly, her friend had been hospitalised Friday, died the same night, she was 70 so has 10 years on my colleague. Extremely sad to hear and my colleague lives alone, we are all keeping in touch with her but she's now feeling dreadful and grieving.
Two other colleagues have been poorly but manageable similar symptoms to eachother (sore throat dry cough and diarrhoea) , their husbands however are on about day 7 and feeling worse than ever, one of which works with a guy who is now in intensive care only 48.
Fourth colleauge is on day 2 of what we hope is recovery and now can talk without coughing and has the energy to get around the house. She's 62. (I work with a lot of older ladies)
A friend of ours is a male nurse at a local surgery, hes on day 7 too woke up feeling better, husband tells me he put on his Facebook he's feeling great then his wife updated it a few hrs back saying false alarm he's back downhill again.Thankful I worked those last two weeks at home and not been in any contact with above colleagues.
Really seems to be hitting men pretty bad apart from that one older lady who sadly died, also this pattern of feeling better then getting worse again hearing that a lot.Shits getting real now, definitely feeling more scared about it.
Stay safe guys.
🙏🏻😢Stay safe yourself #crumpeton #dontdodrugs
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Majority of Americans disapprove of media's handling of coronavirus: poll
A new Gallup poll reports that out of nine sectors in the U.S., including hospitals, state governments, the federal government, child care facilities and schools, employers, the media and Congress, only the news media received negative ratings on its handling of the response to the coronavirus.
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@chimoaus said in Coronavirus - Overall:
Not sure how I had not stumbled across this site which tracks all flights that are in the air. Kind of surprised just how many are happening in the US now and its 1am over there.
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Geez, another article based on a Fern post. They may as well pay us for doing their work.