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According to BBC news, has 9am this morning 15 March 2020, coronavirus confirmed numbers in our area, with each population has follows.
Rotherham 2 confirmed out of 264,671 population
Doncaster 2 confirmed out of 310,542 population
Barnsley 3 confirmed out of 245,199 population
Wakefield 1 confirmed out of 345,038 population
Sheffield 13 confirmed out of 582,506 population
Looks insignificant doesn't it but we were in a similar situation a few weeks ago and the situation at the local aged living centre shows what can happen when it takes hold in a confined space of at risk people. 27 dead, 40+ more infected out of a population of ~80 residents. Over 80 staff also showing symptoms with 40_ positive tests.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ericsladkilnhurst
Been to coast for a few days which I always enjoy but still I’m bloody missing football
The one thing about this bug is that it effects all classes . In saying that poor countries with poor health systems will probably get hammered, And yet some little tribe in the Amazon jungle will probably be blissfully unaware of all this and will be fine. Good for them is what I say. Just sort of shows if we had a bug which wiped the human race out these are the human beings who would get the human rece going again. Whether we would learn of the mistakes we have made and not co ck up again is another matter.
One thing is for sure Roly, I bet those remote tribes aren't currently out shopping for bog rolls XDQuote:
Originally Posted by rolymiller
Amazing what you can do with a palm leaf eh?>;)
All pubs in the Irish Republic to shut for two weeks from midnight tonight (GULP!) ...it's the end of the world as we know it....
The virus has claimed 368 lives in Italy in the last 24 hours .
That's a very scary fact .
I'm of the opinion we are all going to lose someone who we know to this virus .
Extremely worrying situation .
I despair too.Quote:
Originally Posted by rolymiller
The opposition parties have largely managed to restrain themselves, but that cannot be said for some of their supporters. It is so sad to see you and others making political points on this, Roly.
If you don’t like the proposal from the government for the over 70s, what would your solution be? I agree with you that it is going to be incredibly hard for anyone to self-isolate in the manner that is suggested, but what do you see as the alternative?
I’m sure that you have picked up that this disease is killing the elderly (I understand that the mortality rate goes into double figures for the over 80s and that the average age of the dead in Italy is 81), but even when the illness does not kill, its effect upon the elderly means that it is far more likely that older people will need critical care. In other words, failing to take measures to reduce the infection rate in the elderly risks the NHS being overwhelmed more quickly and deeply than it will be. That won’t just have an impact upon other Covid19 patients as people will continue to need critical care for the ‘usual’ heart attacks and car accidents etc. So if older people follow your rather selfish argument and decline to self-isolate, they may well be responsible for the deaths of others, if not their own.
2nd best in the world according to the study referred to here:Quote:
Originally Posted by mikemiller
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/...h-emergencies/
I'm concerned about stories of shortages of protective equipment for NHS staff and I think the communications strategy has been poor (I agree with Starmer that we should have a daily five minute update on TV – even though a lot of the Social Media Left will dismiss that out of hand as propaganda), but beyond that, I think the UK response has been sensible and proportionate