What's weird with coronavirus is loads of top of the tree people have contracted it. Actors, Footballers, Politicians etc. It must be everywhere now in most previously open countries.
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@RR529 It's not any deadlier then any other flu that where the media hype is getting people. The way the media is making it out like cities full of people are falling down dead like some kind of apocalyptic movie it's not. Most of the deaths are like any other flu the elderly/people with compromised immune systems.
@Genrou I think you need to read up on the 1918 to 1920 flu pandemic to get an understanding of why pandemic disease is more dangerous than the same disease would be under normal conditions.
Tom Hanks & his Wife got it, NBA season has been suspended, WHO declares it a pandemic & Trump has issued a European travel ban. 24 hours of insanity.
WrestleMania is likely to be cancelled/delayed as well. So glad I sold all my shares a few months back. The stock market is in absolute free-fall.
I know video games are the least of our worries right now, but do we think Sony may delay TLOU2 given the subject matter?
They basically killed Motorstorm Apocalypse due to the Japan & New Zealand earthquake.
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PS3 Megathread 2019: The Last of Us
Multiplat 2018: Horizon Zero Dawn
Nintendo 2017: Super Mario Bros 3
Playstation 2016: Uncharted 2
Multiplat 2015: Final Fantasy 7
Pneumonia is just a fancy term for a chest infection.Most viruses or bacteria will cause a chest infection or pneumonia if it gains a foothold in your lungs.
Nothing special about COVID-19 except the hysteria
@Rols Two weeks ago there were 10 times many cases as there are today. It spreads exponentially. And with about a week of incubation, it'll take some time before you see the effects of today's contamination. Three weeks ago Italy was fine, now it's pretty much in lockdown. And it will probably get worse over the next few weeks, exponentially worse. Maybe it's currently not as bad where you live, but that doesn't mean everyone is overreacting. Saying ''it's just hysteria'' isn't helping.
I work for a branch of schools, and I am being told through the grape vine that there is a huge chance we get closed before next Monday.
We have students all over Kent come in so it is even harder for us to narrow down sources of potential virus carriers, and the fact we work with SEN students means they lack the maturity to take these situations seriously/calmly.
Many of them are refusing to come in due to anxiety of getting it, some are not caring for their hygiene on purpose, and we are getting pretty low on supplies.
Just have to hope that Boris makes the right decision today.
@Octane there is a lot of hysteria, though. That’s why people are mass buying toilet roll. Totally unnecessary. What’s wrong with saying it as it is. If you’re worried about dying from the illness, good news, it’s extremely unlikely. If you’re worried about being inconvenienced as a result of lock down, yeah you should be worried.
@kyleforrester87 I mean, sure. Like I said before, the mass hoarding is stupid. But saying it's ''nothing special'' is suggesting it's just another seasonal flu, which it isn't. There are plenty of people who think it's just a common flu and it's all the fault of the media, and none of the numbers are real and whatever. There's a fine line in between being ignorant and going full panic mode.
The fact is, a lot is still unknown about this virus, and how it affects different cultures. It's only just started to affect other cultures and races, so it's unknown how big the death toll could really get.
If this becomes something huge, it should not be underestimated in terms of the destruction is can wrought not just in disruption of services, but also the amount of people dying.
The 1-2% death ratio is mostly based on data based on the Chinese people. We still have no idea how this will effect other nations.
@WanderingBullet Nope, that was never the case. I doubt the prem games will be postponed just yet, but they maybe played with limited or no supporters.
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COVID-19? Pfft! Just the flu. No biggie. Papa Trump says there's nothing to worry about, so there's nothing to worry about. You guys will let the media scare you about everything.
Now the Italian College of Anesthesia, Analgesia, Resuscitation and Intensive Care (SIAARTI) has published guidelines for the criteria that doctors and nurses should follow in these extraordinary circumstances. The document begins by likening the moral choices facing Italian doctors to the forms of wartime triage that are required in the field of “catastrophe medicine.” Instead of providing intensive care to all patients who need it, its authors suggest, it may become necessary to follow “the most widely shared criteria regarding distributive justice and the appropriate allocation of limited health resources.”
The principle they settle upon is utilitarian. “Informed by the principle of maximizing benefits for the largest number,” they suggest that “the allocation criteria need to guarantee that those patients with the highest chance of therapeutic success will retain access to intensive care.”
The authors, who are medical doctors, then deduce a set of concrete recommendations for how to manage these impossible choices, including this: “It may become necessary to establish an age limit for access to intensive care.”
Those who are too old to have a high likelihood of recovery, or who have too low a number of “life-years” left even if they should survive, will be left to die. This sounds cruel, but the alternative, the document argues, is no better. “In case of a total saturation of resources, maintaining the criterion of ‘first come, first served’ would amount to a decision to exclude late-arriving patients from access to intensive care.”
In an interview in the Italian daily Corriere della Sera on Monday, the anesthesiologist Christian Salaroli compared the situation in hospitals to wartime.
"We decide based on age, and on health conditions. Just like all war situations," he told the paper. "It's not me that decides but the book manuals we studied."
Salaroli went on to say that if a patient came to the hospital with severe respiratory failure, it's likely that the doctor "won't go ahead" with treatment.
Lombardy, the region around Milan that accounts for more than a fifth of Italy’s economic output, is by far the worst-affected part of the country. ... Finding more acute care beds is a “race against time,” Lombardy’s top health official, Giulio Gallera, said in a phone interview. ... More than 80% of the region’s 1,123 acute-care beds are dedicated to coronavirus, after many other patients have been moved elsewhere and 223 extra places have been opened to cope with the emergency. About half of those are occupied, Gallera said.
For nearly two weeks, Cristina Higgins, an American who lives in Italy, has traveled no farther from her apartment building than the driveway. ... Higgins said she rarely posts to Facebook but felt it was important to convey to those outside of Italy who can't comprehend how bad the situation is that they need to do whatever they can to not pass on the disease. ... "You have a chance to make a difference and stop the spread in your country. Push for the entire office to work at home today, cancel birthday parties, and other gatherings, stay home as much as you can. If you have a fever, any fever, stay home. Push for school closures, now. Anything you can do to stop the spread, because it is spreading in your communities — there is a two week incubation period — and if you do these things now you can buy your medical system time," she wrote.
“Effectively some of the hospitals in Lombardy are under a stress that is much heavier than what this area can support,” Dr. Massimo Galli, head of infectious disease at Milan’s Sacco Hospital, told Sky TG24. “This epidemic is on a scale that is larger than anyone could have thought, imagined or prevented.” ... Some 9% of people diagnosed with the COVID-19 need intensive care, Borrelli said.
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