Main Coronavirus / Covid-19 Discussion Thread

[Dick Head]

False dawn.

We're going to Hell in a ham biscuit.

 

[Dick Swiveller]

Sodastream

Surely that is what a Toilet Duck was invented for?

 

[Driver8]

The government needs to impose strict curfews effective immediately

I see you are still panicking. Calm down mate!

 

[Psychobilly freakout]

I didn't go upstairs to use them to find out I'm afraid.

You went in the "beer garden" like evey one else didn't you

 

[Dick Swiveller]

In all seriousness, this "Phone 111 if you have any concerns" thing is laughable. Has anyone every tried that? I have had two experiences - the first one was when my MiL asked to go to the Walk In surgery in Eastbourne with pain in the chest area after a chest infection. This is a 78 year old woman with angina. The surgery said they had no doctor appointments left so in lieu of A&E, I phoned 111 at around 7pm on a Sunday night. After 15 minutes on hold, we were promised a call from a doctor within 2 hours. At 3am, I received a call (We called from my mobile although left her details as the contact details) from the doctor - 8 hours later.

Then last summer, my girlfriend had been up all night with crippling stomach pains. I phoned 111 at around 4:45am and after chasing them on their 2 hour promise, got a call from a doctor at 7:30am - telling her to go to her own GP.

I have no idea what the waiting time will be when a whole host of people who had a Chow Mein a year ago start phoning up.

 

[BLOCK F]

In all seriousness, this "Phone 111 if you have any concerns" thing is laughable. Has anyone every tried that? I have had two experiences - the first one was when my MiL asked to go to the Walk In surgery in Eastbourne with pain in the chest area after a chest infection. This is a 78 year old woman with angina. The surgery said they had no doctor appointments left so in lieu of A&E, I phoned 111 at around 7pm on a Sunday night. After 15 minutes on hold, we were promised a call from a doctor within 2 hours. At 3am, I received a call (We called from my mobile although left her details as the contact details) from the doctor - 8 hours later.

Then last summer, my girlfriend had been up all night with crippling stomach pains. I phoned 111 at around 4:45am and after chasing them on their 2 hour promise, got a call from a doctor at 7:30am - telling her to go to her own GP.

I have no idea what the waiting time will be when a whole host of people who had a Chow Mein a year ago start phoning up.

My views and experience of 111 are basically unprintable!

 

[Dick Swiveller]

My views and experience of 111 are basically unprintable!

The eventual diagnoses justified calling them rather than 999 or A&E - Broken rib from the coughing for the first and Gastroenteritis for the second - so the general idea is sound but they appear to be woefully understaffed and just there to ask questions to rule to the need for a 999 call.

 

[Gazwag]

In all seriousness, this "Phone 111 if you have any concerns" thing is laughable. Has anyone every tried that? I have had two experiences - the first one was when my MiL asked to go to the Walk In surgery in Eastbourne with pain in the chest area after a chest infection. This is a 78 year old woman with angina. The surgery said they had no doctor appointments left so in lieu of A&E, I phoned 111 at around 7pm on a Sunday night. After 15 minutes on hold, we were promised a call from a doctor within 2 hours. At 3am, I received a call (We called from my mobile although left her details as the contact details) from the doctor - 8 hours later.

Then last summer, my girlfriend had been up all night with crippling stomach pains. I phoned 111 at around 4:45am and after chasing them on their 2 hour promise, got a call from a doctor at 7:30am - telling her to go to her own GP.

I have no idea what the waiting time will be when a whole host of people who had a Chow Mein a year ago start phoning up.

I believe the reasoning behind it is because when you eventually get through you will either be:

1. Dead
2. No longer contentious
3. Not infected and no longer require quarantine

 

[spanish flair]

My wife was taken Ill on Friday and called 111 at 10:30 pm. After explaining her symptoms I was informed she must not self medicate until speaking to the doctor, who would call within the next two hours. She finally got a call from the doctor at 11:30 am next day, only after me calling 111 throughout the night

 

[beorhthelm]

the point of 111 is for people with minor medical issues to log their issue with the NHS, feel better about it and not block up A&E. if anything is remotely serious they'll defer to a doctor or simply send to GP/A&E to avoid liability.

 

[ManOfSussex]

Sussex Uni student being tested - https://www.theargus.co.uk/news/18225137.coronavirus-latest-university-sussex-student-tested/

 

[A mex eyecan]

anyone remember Terry Nations The Survivors?

 

[Publius Ovidius]

Some wag on twitter reckons we have a new song...

We’re Brighton and hove albion, we’re ending the world.

 

[Jimmy Grimble]

National news reporting from outside the County Oak Medical Centre.

 

[Triggaaar]

suggested by who though?

Whom!

anyone with a reliable insight to death rates in China, or anyone interested in drumming up the latest doom?

The example I'm thinking of was a Chinese lady in Wuhan talking to the news, saying that her uncle had died from the disease, but that the death certificate didn't (or wasn't going to) say it was due to the Coronavirus. I don't know whether she was correct or not.

 

[Triggaaar]

I could understand the number of people having the virus being understated but not how many have died. The WHO are in China at the moment so should be keeping the Chinese on their toes regards reporting deaths.

Some people are dying without going to hospital, and there's no sure way of making sure all deaths are correctly reported, particularly in a country like China, where the government control information.

 

[Triggaaar]

The mortality rate is at 1% at the moment which is on par with seasonal flu.

40,000 infected, 900 deaths. That's over 2%, where's the 1% from?

 

[Triggaaar]

It's getting closer.

Graham Potter and family are renting a house in Hove while work is done to their new home. The owners of the house they're renting have contracted Coronavirus

 

[Deportivo Seagull]

40,000 infected, 900 deaths. That's over 2%, where's the 1% from?

Some prof on the bbc news .... i must admit to thinking it was 2-3% but took it at face value.


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[Driver8]

Sussex Uni student being tested - https://www.theargus.co.uk/news/18225137.coronavirus-latest-university-sussex-student-tested/

Hope he didn’t work part time for Sodexo.