Main Coronavirus / Covid-19 Discussion Thread

[PILTDOWN MAN]

World Heath Org. briefing now. WOW

Hope BJ listening

 

[Worried Man Blues]

According to the doctor on the Jeremy Vine show today the virus can live for up to 24 hours on card or paper. Advice was to open the envelope/parcel and bin the wrapping. Then wash hands very well and use gel. Alternatively don’t touch the post for 24 hours. Getting scarier by the day

Thanks but shirley the inner will have the same virus! I'll go with leave the post for a couple of weeks

 

[Thunder Bolt]

If your worried and the treatment can wait, phone up the hospital and cancel. I did this for my mum today. They where actually grateful and completely understood the reasons. In a couple of months we might have a much better picture of what is going on.

I'm not worried and would prefer to have the polyp removed and biopsied, if I'm honest. I am fairly sure the doctor is right and it is just a polyp, but would prefer to make sure.

 

[Thunder Bolt]

You conveniently forgot the World Health Organisation in my post.

Sorry to quote myself but thought this is relevant.

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[hans kraay fan club]

Thanks but shirley the inner will have the same virus! I'll go with leave the post for a couple of weeks

Not if it were transferred to the envelope by the postman or someone at the sorting office.

 

[Worried Man Blues]

Sorry to quote myself but thought this is relevant.

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I preferred the one that said over 70s are more at risk!

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

I love our very own experts on experts... I take great comfort from being told I'm going to die by someone who has zero authority, yet a massive sense of their own ability to translate all of the complexities for thick people like me.

God bless all of them.

Shine on [MENTION=494]Kosh[/MENTION] you crazy diamond

 

[Deleted member 22389]

I'm not worried and would prefer to have the polyp removed and biopsied, if I'm honest. I am fairly sure the doctor is right and it is just a polyp, but would prefer to make sure.

Fair enough.

 

[atomised]

The WHO recommendation was very clear.
Be interesting to see our response

 

[Baker lite]

So it was like Christmas then?

No, fifteen stone Chelsea was clutching 3 bottles of strawberries and cream Baileys, she was wearing a minions onesie with a rather large skidmark at the crack...


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[bluenitsuj]

Everyone needs to be tested who has symptoms, or is just those in hospital and footballers.

How the hell do we know if we have had it.

 

[dangull]

No mention of how many UK deaths in the last 24 hours. Is it because it doesn't fit in the we must panic nature of the news?

 

[yxee]

The WHO recommendation was very clear.
Be interesting to see our response

I found that really strange

They said test everyone, and isolate people that test positive

Isn't that what everybody is trying their best to do?!

 

[beorhthelm]

Wow! You really an expert in everything, aren't you

not quite. but i do deal with medical data.

 

[Swansman]

I found that really strange

They said test everyone, and isolate people that test positive

Isn't that what everybody is trying their best to do?!

No unfortunately it isnt.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...il-spring-2021-and-could-see-79m-hospitalised

"The document also states that:

The health service cannot cope with the sheer number of people with symptoms who need to be tested because laboratories are “under significant demand pressures”.
From now on only the very seriously ill who are already in hospital and people in care homes and prisons where the coronavirus has been detected will get tested."

 

[Icy Gull]

Thanks but shirley the inner will have the same virus! I'll go with leave the post for a couple of weeks

Yeah but chances are it will have been put in the envelope more than 24 hours before you receive it. Unless of course it’s Amazon Prime

 

[Icy Gull]

No unfortunately it isnt.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...il-spring-2021-and-could-see-79m-hospitalised

"The document also states that:

The health service cannot cope with the sheer number of people with symptoms who need to be tested because laboratories are “under significant demand pressures”.
From now on only the very seriously ill who are already in hospital and people in care homes and prisons where the coronavirus has been detected will get tested."

That actually makes perfect sense now it’s assumably going rampant

 

[schmunk]

not quite. but i do deal with medical data.

Not all heroes wear capes:

(sorry)

 

[yxee]

No unfortunately it isnt.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...il-spring-2021-and-could-see-79m-hospitalised

"The document also states that:

The health service cannot cope with the sheer number of people with symptoms who need to be tested because laboratories are “under significant demand pressures”.
From now on only the very seriously ill who are already in hospital and people in care homes and prisons where the coronavirus has been detected will get tested."

That's because we don't have enough tests to test everyone with flu symptoms.

(and as the other poster said, makes perfect sense to prioritise like this)

 

[Triggaaar]

People in France apparently ignoring restrictions.

No surprise to me at all

This. If there was one European country where the rules were going to be ignored, it was France. They do what the **** they like.