Coronavirus - how is it/has it affected you?

chrisd said:
HID and I have spent the day at home as she is feeling poorly (not covid) and I'm climbing the walls already - no sport on TV, nothing much to do, how on earth is a long shutdown going to feel. I might have to do some gardening (without a pitching wedge ) or get some Dulux in and get on with some DIY ??
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After only 2 days of self isolation and with no sport on the telly, I finally got round to renewing my 35 year old Distribution fuse board. I've only had the replacement lying in my shed for about 3 years.:unsure:
 
yandabrown said:
But surely it is more nuanced than that. The cases are doubling on a daily basis not a steady increment and there is the 5 day lag between getting the virus and having symptoms, possibly more before hospitalisation. Say there are 128,000 beds available for this type of treatment, you need to "turn off the tap" 5 days before being full (1 day =64,000, 2 days=32,000, 3 days=16,000, 4 days=8,000 and 5 days=4,000) so we need to have turned off infections entirely when there are just 4,000 cases in hospital (possibly as low as 500 if you add in the delay from showing symptoms to hospitalisation).
I'm not sure how many beds we actually have, nor exactly how fast cases are rising but this shows just how careful you need to be with these exponential numbers.
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That's the entire point of the video

We are coping with what we got ATM and can cope with these tiny increases

What we can't cope with is massive spikes then drops spikes then drops.
 
andycap said:
I,m no expert and stand to be shot down in flames , but all of this started in China , where did SARS start ? China i believe . A country that is vastly overpopulated , where people feel the need to walk around in masks amongst their own in normal life to stay safe . Many places i've been on holiday they are there in numbers . Restrict travel of Chinese and both of these pandemics would not be so bad . Fire away !
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And this is the type of backwards thinking that is striking fear into mindless thugs and an increase in attacks of people of Oriental origins. So you telling me that there are no other races that resides in the area's of Wuhan?
Its common practice to wear masks in Asian countries mainly due to pollution. And they are worn when one has a cold or similar and do not wish to pass it on. They can not afford to miss days off work. They simply do not have that luxury like we do in the UK.

Read into what you will, but it seems too easy for the media to blame the ''wet markets'' when coincidentally there happens to be a research Biolab facility in the vicinity of the market. :unsure:
 
andycap said:
I,m no expert and stand to be shot down in flames , but all of this started in China , where did SARS start ? China i believe . A country that is vastly overpopulated , where people feel the need to walk around in masks amongst their own in normal life to stay safe . Many places i've been on holiday they are there in numbers . Restrict travel of Chinese and both of these pandemics would not be so bad . Fire away !
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Is it actually Chinese tourists exporting the virus, or is it European tourists importing it; perhaps you could clarify how you categorically know restricting Chinese travel would stop it if we still allow Europeans access to China?
 
Blue in Munich said:
Is it actually Chinese tourists exporting the virus, or is it European tourists importing it; perhaps you could clarify how you categorically know restricting Chinese travel would stop it if we still allow Europeans access to China?
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Just to throw an odd fact in there. In the run up to the Chinese New Year, Feb 3rd, there were concerns aired in the local media, knowing of the Coronavirus, that there was an expected influx of Chinese tourists into Spain. In effect, lots of visitors coming in to celebrate with the significant number of Chinese immigrants in Spain.

No doubt a pure coincidence but the first Spaniard to die of the virus, died on Feb 13th. He, probably, won't have been the first to contract it... vaguely remember, I think, that he had been to northern Italy. However, northern Italy also has a significant number of Chinese, originally there to work in the leather factories.

Lots of vague guesses in there but who knows...
 
Maybe another pure coincidence, China spokesperson accuses US Military of bringing over Covid-19. The US experiencing high numbers of patients treated for influenza (not tested for Covid-19).
China stages Military World Games around the end of October 2019 in WUHAN. Apparently the US squad performed poorly by US standards. First patient/outbreak happened shortly after in November.

Agree, vague guesses but who knows.........Both China and the US are nutjobs. Wouldn't put anything past these two countries.
 
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