Topic: Corona Virus Panic/Discussion Thread

@Fight_Teza_Fight “you feel social distancing is working” see that’s interesting because that’s what a lot of the battle will be against this virus once we’re out of lockdown, it will be how people feel about the risk of exposure, not necessarily the reality of the situation. I feel much less anxious about it this week than I did the past 2 weeks, but in reality the cases are at their highest right now, more people are dying and we are heading toward the peak.

Like I said before I think ultimately we’ll all just get used to living with with the idea that we might pick up this potentially deadly bug, in the same way you get used to living with certain chronic illnesses.

you know what i'm a retail worker that works nights/really early mornings so the lockdown hasn't actually affected me at all because my hours were unsociable anyway

either that or i'm just a miserable git

@FullbringIchigo probably a bit of both 😉

@kyleforrester87 Yep that’s probably the case. I’ve accepted the fact that there is a high chance of me getting it.
I think the majority will get it, but the NHS isn’t equipped with dealing with everyone at once, so in that case social distancing is helping.
A lot of people won’t even realise they have it, unless they get checked. Idris Elba has very mild symptoms, but he’s still able to pass it on.
I’m just hoping we get to some level of normality soon- although I enjoy the traffic of late😁.

@kyleforrester87 probably

@RogerRoger, that's true, i have had more contact with my sister this past few weeks than i had over the past few months

@Fight_Teza_Fight yeah London’s roads are like my old hometown up north, it’s great.

Yea @Heavyarms55 i was sick for 10 days then started to feel better. I wasn't 100% for about 14 days.

I hope the whole work thing works out for ya @Rudy_Manchego. And now i'm in the mood for some pancakes.

Yes i was on a ventilator @themcnoisy. For 5 days total.

@RogerRoger Same here. I've got less time than I did before. I bought a few games and books with the idea of reading/playing those during the quarantine, but with uni closed, we're moving entire courses to a digital platform. A lot of things have to be digitalised, lectures need to be available in written format, so many translation work because only the English material is available online. And additional revisions of students' (home)work to make sure they're able to keep up.

The United States is above 200k now. We're nearly double Italy's numbers. Just NY has more cases than almost every other country on Earth.

lol We're doomed.

@CurryPowderKeg79 Jesus, that sounds awful. I'm glad you pulled through.

@Ralizah Good thing it's all over by Easter. Imagine if this lasted another month or two...

@Octane or 12-18+...

@Octane @kyleforrester87 Our "optimistic" estimates now are 200,000K Americans dying from this.

If we continue to screw around, apparently millions of Americans dying is possible.

@Ralizah yeah that’s not great, but just look after you and yours, that’s all you can do

The governor of my state refuses to issue a shelter in place order, instead opting for a "safer at home" suggestion. Apparently a shelter in place order violates our civil liberties.

If I die because he refused to do anything to prevent the spread of this, I'm haunting him for the rest of his days.

@LaJettatura we have an estimated 600,000 infected in the uk using modelling from a few of days ago. We have only just started proper testing yesterday and the initial and arguably wrong strategy was to build up herd immunity. So yeah the UKs stats are going to be wildly out.

Only 2000 NHS staff have been tested. People with symptoms were told to stay at home. The reality is we didn't have enough tests and the wrong people were being tested with the few we had(celebrities as an example).

At the end of the day, no economy in the world can pause for 6 months in various forms of lockDown, the very proposition the big testers like South Korea and Germany are facing. The Who are still saying to contact trace and isolate when appropriate. The UK is way passed that point now, I don't think you can stop this coronavirus. The next 3 weeks are going to be hairy, scary and filled with covid 19. Then it will tail off.

@LaJettatura We keep seeing numbers like the 200k dead estimate or your suggestion of as many as 2 million. What's the estimate of the timeframe? Are we thinking that number by the end of the year? Sooner? Later? Is there a general estimate on when the peak might be?

There's lots of stories and information about what the virus does and estimates on how many infected and how many many die. But very little I can find about a suggested timeline.

@LaJettatura @themcnoisy The UK government decided for quality control reasons to only do the PCR testing in seven public-health England labs and only use reagents produced by the PCR machine manufacturers.

The result is we have a reagent shortage despite having a chemical industry capable of synthesising everything we need. A lab capacity shortage despite having 130 unused University labs perfectly capable of carrying out PCR testing.

@Ralizah @Arugula That's the worst. The people that are more concerned with their next election chances than with public health.