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Coronavirus - how is it/has it affected you?

I will be interested to see what is put on my father in law's death certificate as he had severe dementia and was admitted to hospital with a urinary infection and sepsis. He caught Covid in the last few days of his life but would have died anyway from his other conditions. Perhaps they list all three?
 
arnieboy said:
I will be interested to see what is put on my father in law's death certificate as he had severe dementia and was admitted to hospital with a urinary infection and sepsis. He caught Covid in the last few days of his life but would have died anyway from his other conditions. Perhaps they list all three?
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Sorry for the family loss, My understanding is he will be added to the daily COVID figures due to that. What's on his cert, I don't know.
 
SwingsitlikeHogan said:
Quarantine to start 15th Feb to give hotels time to prepare...well that's what I heard. I may have misheard.

Disclaimer - I make no personal comment or observation on what I have heard on that matter.
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It is over a year too late, in my opinion. Those skiers coming back from Italy last winter gave the virus a racing start in the UK.
 
Ethan said:
It is over a year too late, in my opinion. Those skiers coming back from Italy last winter gave the virus a racing start in the UK.
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Yup. I look back to the chat I had with my brother when he was on a skiing holiday in north Italy last February (I mentioned this when I opened a thread on Feb 26 about coping with isolation...makes interesting ready today). I think at the time there was an outbreak among brits in an Italian resort and I contacted him to check he was ok and what his hotel or air carrier were asking of him...nothing...no checks...and nothing on his return to uk.
 
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SwingsitlikeHogan said:
Yup. I look back to the chat I had with my brother when he was on a skiing holiday in north Italy last February. I think at the time there was an outbreak among brits in an Italian resort and I contacted him to check he was ok and what his hotel or air carrier were asking of him...nothing...no checks...and nothing on his return to uk.
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Funny that, no checks in and out of mainland Europe during that time either.
 
arnieboy said:
I will be interested to see what is put on my father in law's death certificate as he had severe dementia and was admitted to hospital with a urinary infection and sepsis. He caught Covid in the last few days of his life but would have died anyway from his other conditions. Perhaps they list all three?
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Virtually the same as my aunt and my mate's wife. Both advanced dementia. Both had stopped eating and drinking. Both taken to hospital where they caught Covid. Both "Covid related deaths" :cry:
 
Old Skier said:
Funny that, no checks in and out of mainland Europe during that time either.
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I mentioned it in a thread I opened on Feb 26 reflecting the forward thinking and planning I had to do when looking at risk, risk mitigation and contingency measures in the context of business continuity planning for a major government service my company provided. I had had the ‘pleasure’ of putting BCP in place to cover the risk of a bird flue pandemic when such was real. I had to work out what it might mean and what measures would be required to maintain business continuity in the event of some or all of the operations team being ill.
 
SwingsitlikeHogan said:
I mentioned it in a thread I opened on Feb 26 reflecting the forward thinking and planning I had to do when looking at risk, risk mitigation and contingency measures in the context of business continuity planning for a major government service my company provided. I had had the ‘pleasure’ of putting BCP in place to cover the risk of a bird flue pandemic when such was real. I had to work out what it might mean and what measures would be required to maintain business continuity in the event of some or all of the operations team being ill.
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So are you pointing a finger at all countries in Europe for not acting soon enough.
 
DanFST said:
There's been nothing stopping someone landing at Heathrow and getting on the tube. Still isn't as far as I'm aware?

Italy has had mandatory PCR tests before departure and on arrival since June.
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The post was about last February. at present traveling into UK you need a negative PCR test a completed passenger location form and self isolate for 10 days. I have no idea on the quarantines like in Italy.

Edited to add you self isolate for 14 days in Italy and self certify that your journey was necessary.
 
DanFST said:
Still nothing stopping you jumping on the tube tho.
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For a lot of people public transport is the only way to get to and from the airport.

We travelled once last year, we took a car to Heathrow but still had to take a shuttle bus there. And on the other end we got collected by family which was a 2 hour drive. I will not hopefully be travelling by plane until we can safely use public transport on both sides again.
 
Some of the garbage being printed in the papers is starting to get annoying, along with those who perpetuate it.

Apparently there is an article in one of the tabloids that there have been 140 deaths in people who have recently had the jab, and it is being circulated by our resident conspiracy theorist Trump lover at the club. Simple maths will tell you that out of a population of about 66 million, 110,000 have sadly died, out of nearly 11 million who have had the jab, 140 have died so there is no doubt which is the bigger issue. Add a bit of logic to that and say that this currently getting the jab are generally much nearer end of life anyway, so they are much more likely to die than the general population who have not had the jab. And apparently there is no direct evidence to link the jab as a cause of death. Yet the paper printed it & it gets perpetuated.

I've said it before, but when this is over & the enquiry takes place, the press deserve as close scrutiny as any other body, if not closer.
 
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Blue in Munich said:
Some of the garbage being printed in the papers is starting to get annoying, along with those who perpetuate it.

Apparently there is an article in one of the tabloids that there have been 140 deaths in people who have recently had the jab, and it is being circulated by our president conspiracy theorist Trump lover at the club. Simple maths will tell you that out of a population of about 66 million, 110,000 have sadly died, out of nearly 11 million who have had the jab, 140 have died so there is no doubt which is the bigger issue. Add a bit of logic to that and say that this currently getting the jab are generally much nearer end of life anyway, so they are much more likely to die than the general population who have not had the jab. And apparently there is no direct evidence to link the jab as a cause of death. Yet the paper printed it & it gets perpetuated.

I've said it before, but when this is over & the enquiry takes place, the press deserve as close scrutiny as any other body, if not closer.
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Old people have died? Nah, not having that...:rolleyes:
 
larmen said:
For a lot of people public transport is the only way to get to and from the airport.

We travelled once last year, we took a car to Heathrow but still had to take a shuttle bus there. And on the other end we got collected by family which was a 2 hour drive. I will not hopefully be travelling by plane until we can safely use public transport on both sides again.
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I'm hoping this could be a good opportunity to get the coach industry back on its feet, an industry which has been absolutely shafted during the pandemic. You get off the plane, and on a coach to a hotel. No passing go no collecting £200
 
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