Coronavirus Pandemic

[gilesgoat]

Last new from my bro in Italy, they arrived at 900 infected about 1/2 of those are in hospitals with more serious sympthoms, 21 deaths, mortality is going to 3% like in China so about 30 times more the usual seasonal flu.

[Whiteball]

We received an internal work briefing today, basically reminding people about performing good & consistent hygiene and considering skipping handshakes .

Which is actually all fair enough really, it wasn't sensational and there are a lot of people that do need to travel & meet up all over the world every week.

We had a similar thing the other day at work. They basically said if you have symptoms and feel unwell to stay home and not come to work.
Only problem is they do not pay 'sick pay' so everyone will go to work as they still have mortgages and bills to pay....

[(o)(o)]

Bought a box of these in December, paid about £6.



£50 now if you can find them.

[Cloudane]

'kinell!

[PFVA]

And in the cafés here all people talked about today was Italy and the virus. The unthinkable happened: Five football games were cancealed including Inter Milano where Cristiano plays. And France just cancealed their games too. And when the virus gets here they may be cancealed too. No football games! Now that's a crisis.

In the meantime this can lead to some good things: i watched on the lunch time news hotels in the capital being throughly cleaned. Restaurants, bars, and cafés are doing it too.

Now in the evening news i finally saw something interesting. They were saying that the virus can in some people cause kidney problems and blood circulation problems. Actually not cause but really aggravate the already existing ones. Apparently that has been what caused the most serious cases, and even the deaths. That makes sense.

[Barney]

I honestly do not think that I have ever seen an act of Terrorism manage to shut down entire communities as effectively or for as long as this virus has.

[gilesgoat]

What makes me think is "ok, now we have this virus .. .. and what about NEXT year ? Will there be another one ?".

[Cloudane]

Could be like the storms where it's just one after the other

[snaff]

Just shows we need to roll back on globalisation. The production and spread of novel diseases will persist until we do.

[Baggypants]

What makes me think is "ok, now we have this virus .. .. and what about NEXT year ? Will there be another one ?".

Next year it'll be the same virus but people will be asking 'Oh, Do you have the flu or the bad flu?'

[(o)(o)]

Could be like the storms where it's just one after the other

Some claims emerging (based on recovered patients, testing positive again) that’s this is a persistent infection.

[PFVA]

We have to be different, it couldn't have been someone no one knows.

The Chilean writer Luis Sepulveda is the first confirmed case in the Asturias (Spain) and he was in Portugal between the 18th and 23rd of February for a writters event in a (beautiful) seaside town north of Porto. Now they are having to check the people he came in contact with which may include a few fellow writers. There is also the question of where did he get it.

He was programmed to come here to my area pretty soon and i was thinking of stopping by.

[Ollie]

Could be like the storms where it's just one after the other

Some claims emerging (based on recovered patients, testing positive again) that’s this is a persistent infection.

"In addition, some of them turned negative when tested again." This surely suggests it's a problem with the reliability of the tests?

[SuperMappy]

[PFVA]

We have the first 2 oficial cases now, both in the North area of the country.