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Coronavirus - how is it/has it affected you?

Down to single figure Covid patients in ICU and most those now have been our long term patients over 20 days duration. One new admission over the weekend and even more good news is no ICU deaths for 4 days. I am still not convinced we won't get a second spike in the next 14-21 days as so many people in shops and even walking in town seem unwilling to social distance and many seem to be visiting friends and relatives locally, which has been mentioned regularly today by staff at home over the weekend. We are contingency planning for it to happen and hoping it is all a wasted effort but we'll see. For now though really pleased it is continuing to be going in the right direction and we are getting rid of our agency staff and a lot of the theatre staff and others are going back to their normal duties
 
SwingsitlikeHogan said:
Phase 1 of our secret plan to celebrate my MiL being 90 today. Son dressed and groomed all nice a smart pops down from sheff to ch’field and delivers card, flowers, chocolates and nice biscuits to the door. Knocks and steps back the necessary separation. His nan comes to the door - Surprise, Surprise. Happy Birthday nan.?

Phase 2 is zoom video chat this evening with Brother in law doing the necessary at Nan’s end. (He’s been staying with his mum for over a year). And on that will be me, Mrs SILH, and son and daughter with their partners - plus a chihuahua called Belle ? Nan knows nothing of this so hopefully once she gets over the confusion over what she is looking at we’ll sing Happy Birthday and it’ll be nice.

Making the best of things...?
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And Phase 2 went very well indeed...though I think my M-i-L was thinking we might try and do something. But it was lovely. Plus there were other side benefits. Those who have had the misfortune to read of my family ramblings will know that my son's g/friend is 'problematic' and my 62yr old B-i-L is seriously depressed about his future now that he is back home living with his mother. And we could see that the Zoom Call was good for them both.

The g/friend was included in an important family occasion and she seemed to enjoy it - and my B-i-L had a purpose setting things up. On top of that we asked him to paint a landscape of the lovely view from my M-i-Ls conservatory - he's an artist by 'profession' but has never painted a landscape - but we know that if my M-i-L had to ever move from her house what she'd miss most would be the view. So now she'll have it painted by her son.
 
pauldj42 said:
Little bit of positivity, but still sad:

545 reported fatalities today. Down from 627, 693, 909, 1172, 1044, 1038 on previous Tuesdays. Jump from yesterday is due to weekend lag.

New infections at 2412 - it was around 6000 two weeks ago.

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I think the figure for new infections in two weeks time will give us a clearer picture. With two bank holidays, some nice weather and the easing of the lock down rules I'm fearful that number will be going back up.
 
ColchesterFC said:
I think the figure for new infections in two weeks time will give us a clearer picture. With two bank holidays, some nice weather and the easing of the lock down rules I'm fearful that number will be going back up.
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You’re like a cloud on a sunny day. ;)

Living in the now mate, but I get were you’re coming from.(y)
 
pauldj42 said:
Little bit of positivity, but still sad:

545 reported fatalities today. Down from 627, 693, 909, 1172, 1044, 1038 on previous Tuesdays. Jump from yesterday is due to weekend lag.

New infections at 2412 - it was around 6000 two weeks ago.

Courtesy of Prof Sikora.(y)
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Any drop is good news ,just hope it continues.
 
ColchesterFC said:
I think the figure for new infections in two weeks time will give us a clearer picture. With two bank holidays, some nice weather and the easing of the lock down rules I'm fearful that number will be going back up.
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We're preparing for that in work and everyone thinks there will be a spike of new infections and admissions, possibly starting as early as this weekend following on from the VE celebrations and some members of the public thinking these relaxation of lockdown means its over, I've seen friends and family visiting neighbours, full blown football games and people ignoring social distancing in the shops. I hope it's not going to happen especially now we've got golf back and we go to full 18 holes from tomorrow. I just think the public need a firm reminder on what their responsibilities are
 
Spain, by region. Northern Spain, specifically Cataluna, is still taking the brunt of it. Just goes to show what lockdown stopped. Imagine their numbers in each of the regions.

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IainP said:
I think the link was about the UK, but Sweden is an interesting one. Think there were a lot of views that compared to the other nordic countries they'd made a bit of a horlicks of things.
All a bit subjective of course.
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i don't think we will really know for many months. If we have second waves etc, Sweden are llikely to do a lot better thanother nations even though they suffered from covid more than neighbours - but like us a big negative for them has been care homes. But they will likely have done much better than other nations on mental health and other illnesses like cancer
 
PNWokingham said:
I am thinking more and more that Sweden have got it right albeit care homes there and here have been a nightmare

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/20...uld-reopen-now-without-risking-public-health/
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IainP said:
I think the link was about the UK, but Sweden is an interesting one. Think there were a lot of views that compared to the other nordic countries they'd made a bit of a horlicks of things.
All a bit subjective of course.
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Heard on the radio today that they have the highest per-capita death rate in Europe so I'm not sure that they should be held up as a glowing example of how to deal with the virus.

Found this story which admittedly is just for the last 7 days but doesn't paint a pretty picture.....

https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-h...ths-per-capita-over-last-7-days-idUKKBN22V26V
 
PNWokingham said:
i don't think we will really know for many months. If we have second waves etc, Sweden are llikely to do a lot better thanother nations even though they suffered from covid more than neighbours - but like us a big negative for them has been care homes. But they will likely have done much better than other nations on mental health and other illnesses like cancer
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Sweden was going for herd immunity. Numbers in Stockholm now showing 7% with antibodies. Planned operations has pretty much come to a halt, so the queues for operations is at record levels.

But I agree with you that we won’t know right or wrong and the results from this, but I’d say that it’s more likely to say that we won’t know in a year or two rather than months.
 
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