Brexit, for once some facts.

Danidl

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Huang et al (24 january 2020)ublished a study on patients with covid 19 that presented in a&e's in china) that describe typical symptoms (good reading, better description of possible risk factors than some conjecture in media - most had fever but 2% didnt have fever at all and I think about 12% not significant rise in body temperature)
..Yes but the group which presents at A&E is a subset , If the person believed they are not bad enough, they don't attend..
 

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..Yes but the group which presents at A&E is a subset , If the person believed they are not bad enough, they don't attend..
if your symptoms are not bad enough to go to A&E then you are lucky, you have got off lightly.
You still need to be tested but the probability after 7 days is that you have built up some immunity.
 

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if your symptoms are not bad enough to go to A&E then you are lucky, you have got off lightly.
You still need to be tested but the probability after 7 days is that you have built up some immunity.
About a month ago I was returning home on the tube very late when a thirtysomething year old staggered onto the train retching gasping for breath and swearing, it seemed aggressively. He seemed very disturbed and I thought it could be some kind of reactive psychosis at the time. Now it seems more likely to me it could have been viral pneumonia (he was gasping desperately). I'm sure it's how I got infected. He got of at the next station, I imagine a very very small percentage who die may also not present to a&e, bit its very likely insignificant.
 

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should i go to A&E ?

Symptoms
  • Fatigue.
  • Lymphadenopathy (swollen lymph nodes )
  • Thirst.
  • Nausea and vomiting.
  • Fever.
  • Skin and bone abnormalities.
  • Enlarged liver and/or spleen.
  • Frequent infections.
 

soundwave

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No-one should go to A&E.
well im fooked then i wont die but i am going to evolve at a high rate what it says on the net.

i could look like this in 7 days :eek:
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Tánaiste Simon Coveney has launched a scathing attack on young people who are ignoring social distancing recommendations and called on members of the public to confront individuals who are not taking Covid-19 seriously.

Wouldn`t really advise on confronting this shower but maybe if like Spain for example they were hit with a £80 fine or their parents were it would maybe put some manners into them
 

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now now, making fun of late stage AIDS is not on..
The Tyrant virus - more commonly referred to as the T-virus - is a man-made mutagenic plague and a staple of the early Resident Evil games. Created by the Umbrella Corporation, the T-virus was derived from Progenitor, a non-carcinogenic virus originally discovered in West Africa. Umbrella and other organisations have used the T-virus as a catalyst for producing various types of biological weapons.

;)
 

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The Tyrant virus - more commonly referred to as the T-virus - is a man-made mutagenic plague and a staple of the early Resident Evil games. Created by the Umbrella Corporation, the T-virus was derived from Progenitor, a non-carcinogenic virus originally discovered in West Africa. Umbrella and other organisations have used the T-virus as a catalyst for producing various types of biological weapons.

;)
Cant you play fallout like a normal person?
 
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Tánaiste Simon Coveney has launched a scathing attack on young people who are ignoring social distancing recommendations and called on members of the public to confront individuals who are not taking Covid-19 seriously.

Wouldn`t really advise on confronting this shower but maybe if like Spain for example they were hit with a £80 fine or their parents were it would maybe put some manners into them
Tommie. Wouldn't cost me a thought.. Confronting and challenging mainly young men was my job description for decades.. But two more straws in the wind... The legislation signed into law, today gives serious power to detain and force people to stay at home.,and 300 new apprentice Gardai were sworn in today.... With nothing like the duration of training expected. This is to make the Training center a potential hospital and of course to cover for sick police. . I expect you don't watch the Late Late Show ,but tonight was very different... Very much like a tribute show for Covid, with all the cast present in supporting roles.
 
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There was bound to be some nutter in the Telegraph to try an utterly stupid headline like this
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/02/28/coronavirus-outbreak-shows-real-limits-borderless-eu/

The coronavirus outbreak shows the real limits of a borderless EU
headache of a very different sort.

Coronavirus threatens not just public health, but also the very fundamentals of the EU system of free movement, and its Schengen Area that – in theory at least – provide for borderless travel across member states.

The ever-expanding crisis makes it seem inevitable that border controls will be needed once more.

Since when was China in the EU?
Someone got it right, others got it wrong.
 

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Well done Telegraph
Now we have Panic Buying of Bin Bags
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/03/20/exhausted-nurses-overwhelmed-london-hospital-wore-bin-bags-protect/?WT.mc_id=tmgliveapp_androidshare_AvCVG0yLpF64
Exhausted nurses at overwhelmed London hospital wore bin bags to protect themselves from coronavirus
Northwick Park Hospital in Harrow became the first in the country to be overwhelmed by coronavirus

This paper should never be allowed anywhere near the news.
Sensationailsm where calm reporting is required, creating a new surge of panic buying.
 

oldgroaner

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Pause for thought
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Godfrey Bloom@goddersbloom
· 11h
Well, we didn't close our pubs in the blitz 60,000 people killed then What happened to our nation?

As the old saying goes
"If you can keep your head
When all around are losing theirs
Then clearly you have no idea of
the seriousness of the situation."
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oldgroaner

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Is there any data about the lethality of Covid 19 among the terminally deranged?


So shutting down outlets for Alcohol, one of the major killers in it's own right is central to "our" social lives?
I haven't been in one this century, and a fair part of the last too!
 

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Well done Telegraph
Now we have Panic Buying of Bin Bags
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/03/20/exhausted-nurses-overwhelmed-london-hospital-wore-bin-bags-protect/?WT.mc_id=tmgliveapp_androidshare_AvCVG0yLpF64
Exhausted nurses at overwhelmed London hospital wore bin bags to protect themselves from coronavirus
Northwick Park Hospital in Harrow became the first in the country to be overwhelmed by coronavirus

This paper should never be allowed anywhere near the news.
Sensationailsm where calm reporting is required, creating a new surge of panic buying.
Was on tv news last night as well.
 

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Is there any data about the lethality of Covid 19 among the terminally deranged?


So shutting down outlets for Alcohol, one of the major killers in it's own right is central to "our" social lives?
I haven't been in one this century, and a fair part of the last too!
I have been in, maybe two, pubs this year, but haven’t drunk alcohol for years. Fools like the author of the above are so stupid, so detached from happenings and so lacking in knowledge that they have absolutely no concept of what is coming.

I fear that the U.K.is going to make Italy’s situation look like a minor sniffle. That will be 75% the fault of the stupid British public. They put more effort into understanding the plot of a soap opera than they do to understanding Covid and how it transfers.

People are still joking about Covid. I like a laugh, but the jokes are now distracting from the serious issues. I fear that crying will have replaced laughing by the time summer arrives. I can’t tell you how much I hope I’m wrong about this.
 
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I hope our senior politicians watched Trumps performance yesterday during the White House briefing. It was an object lesson in how a leader should NOT conduct oneself during a time of crisis. He has been pretty bad in all the briefings I have seen so far but yesterday hit a new low.

His base I am sure will cheer him on no matter what he says or does but I think around 65% of people in the USA who watched his performance yesterday must be in despair.

Boris has made many mistakes, I think he has been a couple of weeks behind where he should have been on most of the actions he has taken, but in comparison to trump he is doing fairly well.

I am quite impressed with the Chancellor he comes across far better than Boris, I suspect when all this is over either Boris will get rid of him if he is powerful enough or more likely the Tory party will get rid of Boris and put the Chancellor in charge.

Has anyone seen Gove (we've had enough of experts) lately? He seems to have disappeared without trace.

Don't hear to much bashing of the BBC and the Civil Service and letting US get their hands on the NHS from Tory Brexitier politicians nowadays funny that isn't it. At times of crisis people turn to old and trusted institutions and perhaps are starting to realise how much worse things could have been if this virus had stuck in a year or twos time when the BBC and Civil Service had been decimated and parts of the NHS hived off to private industry.
 

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