Latest Chinese export - coronavirus COVID-19

[Nick]

So the Chinese authorities  who usually have no problem in doing so need to get a grip?



The medical people on tv last night who say the potential for a a quarter to one million deaths in a relatively short period should get a grip,how many people die of the common cold each year in this country?

3000 people die from Flu in the UK every year.

[Barry]

This virus is about 2% more infective than the common cold with a mortality rate of about 1% more than the common cold.

WTF are you people worried about? If you're in the group that is likely to be killed by Covid 19 then you were not destined for too long on this earth anyway. Get a f**king grip people, it's a cold virus.⁸

You are understating the threat. Some are overstating the threat, I know, but this is not a cold virus. it is a very infectious virus that goes straight for the lungs and tries to drown you in your own secretions.

There are several aspects of this which are worrying the authorities:

Asymptomatic spread.

Apparent lack of immunity after having the disease and tested negative. Some people have died suddenly after being cleared and found to have the virus again. Perhaps it can hide?

The WHO say the death rate is 3%. Our health experts say 1%. Common colds don't kill, influenza occasionally does (0.1% 1 in a thousand).

This is 10-30 times more deadly than the flu.

The argument that it's just old and infirm who die doesn't really fly, because of the previously healthy ophthalmologist in China dying after discovering the disease. Having said that the average age of dying people is said to be around 71.

Lack of immunity after infection has to be one of the worst aspects of this nasty little bug which can't be seen, can't always be detected, but is deadly in too many cases to ignore. That's why I'd be happy for all flights between infected countries to stop.

I understand that many flights are now going empty, just to keep their allocated slots, as if they are not used, they can lose them. That has to stop!

[cromwell]

This virus is about 2% more infective than the common cold with a mortality rate of about 1% more than the common cold.

WTF are you people worried about? If you're in the group that is likely to be killed by Covid 19 then you were not destined for too long on this earth anyway. Get a f**king grip people, it's a cold virus.⁸

So the Chinese authorities  who usually have no problem in doing so need to get a grip?



The medical people on tv last night who say the potential for a a quarter to one million deaths in a relatively short period should get a grip,how many people die of the common cold each year in this country?

[Nick]

This virus is about 2% more infective than the common cold with a mortality rate of about 1% more than the common cold.

WTF are you people worried about? If you're in the group that is likely to be killed by Covid 19 then you were not destined for too long on this earth anyway. Get a fucking grip people, it's a cold virus.⁸

[T00ts]

Wonderful creatures nurses. Full of warmth and compassion. Until they start nursing. Then it is take this and buck up and we will have you back on your feet in no time. And you are thinking well, actually dolly, I don't want to buck up. I just want to lie here and go pleasantly to pieces but they won't have it.

My Mum didn't have that excuse. Just an impatient nature.

[Borchester]

I am married to a nurse, I get similar treatment when ill.

Wonderful creatures nurses. Full of warmth and compassion. Until they start nursing. Then it is take this and buck up and we will have you back on your feet in no time. And you are thinking well, actually dolly, I don't want to buck up. I just want to lie here and go pleasantly to pieces but they won't have it.

[Barry]

I am married to a nurse, I get similar treatment when ill.

Ditto.

[Barry]

True, but to be fair, the experts are saying the genie is out of the bottle, so to speak. It will not go back in.

[T00ts]

What? No Tizer or Fry's Five Boys bars or copies of the Beano or Dandy?  Medicine really went backwards after my time.

That's not the half of it. No magazines, no Annuals, no fizzy drinks - they expected me to be a high flyer so there was little time for frivolities. Looking back I don't think it really mattered although at times I wished...

[Borchester]

I had Asian flu and was ill for weeks. Camphor oil (is that the spelling?) rubbed on chest and back, usually by Mum's rough no nonsense hands that made my skin raw. Coughing for England made worse by Mum stomping into my room in the middle of the night with little sympathy and no bedside manner and spoons of foul tasting unction! I think I'll opt for lock-down this time!   :roll:

What? No Tizer or Fry's Five Boys bars or copies of the Beano or Dandy?  Medicine really went backwards after my time.

[papasmurf]

Coughing for England made worse by Mum stomping into my room in the middle of the night with little sympathy and no bedside manner and spoons of foul tasting unction! I think I'll opt for lock-down this time!   :roll:

I am married to a nurse, I get similar treatment when ill.

[T00ts]

Actually it was a woman in Berkshire and an 88 year old man in Milton Keynes.

At some stage or another they will have to stop trying to count the infected and tracing contacts. The experts admit they have lost control and that anyone, anywhere might have it. He also said it's no joke as they can't predict how any individual will handle it.

Keep calm and carry on. Be sensible.

It gets worse. The family are saying that for 6-7 hours they had left him in an ordinary ward with sick patients and visitors and staff with no protection. So much for the NHS excellence of skills in dealing with highly contagious infection situations.

[T00ts]

Keep away from these as they could spread a virus.

Uuggggghhhhhh!!!!!!!  Clean that child up - don't stand there taking pictures!   :barf:

[T00ts]

:hattip



I have to admit Barry, you do have a point. I go back to the Asian flu and great smogs of the the 50s and relatives coughing and choking and gasping for air and taking deep, satisfying drags on their fags that took the smoke right down to their toes and, I was assured, really cleared their chests. Kids got a dollop of Vicks Vapour Rub on their chests, under their noses and for some reason know only to God and my mum, on their foreheads. Plus comics, sweets and forever off school.



In those days epidemics were fun  

I had Asian flu and was ill for weeks. Camphor oil (is that the spelling?) rubbed on chest and back, usually by Mum's rough no nonsense hands that made my skin raw. Coughing for England made worse by Mum stomping into my room in the middle of the night with little sympathy and no bedside manner and spoons of foul tasting unction! I think I'll opt for lock-down this time!   :roll:

[T00ts]

That bug is really bugging me!   :kikass: