O/T:- Are we over-reacting to COVD19?

[ncfcog]

own toothbrushes!! Soft southern pansy, when i were a lad we had one toothbrush per street and we could only use it on sundays and it had no bristles but if it were good enough for me grandad it were good enough for the fourtean of us in our hovel.

xd xd

[sidders]

Up to you Sidders....

Perhaps we could switch to 'Is COVID-19 all it's cracked up to be?'

[the_anticlough]

Read this from the chair of global public health at the University of Edinburgh.

A damning analysis of how the Government has fcuked this up. It's dithering and negligence will lead to thousands and thousands of extra deaths. This is what you get when you vote for politicians that care nothing for ordinary people.

https://www.theguardian.com/commenti...art-squandered

[i961pie]

Over 250 died in Italy yesterday, flu doesn't kill that many people in one day. Nothing good can come of this virus, my only hope is that goverments around the world sit up and take notice to protect future generations..........instead of spending money on weapons of mass destruction, spend it on research.

Between October 2019 and January 2020 240 people died of flu in Italy. How many thousand has died there in only 6 weeks or so.

[drillerpie]

Between October 2019 and January 2020 240 people died of flu in Italy. How many thousand has died there in only 6 weeks or so.

600 dead in Italy in the last 24 hours. The day before was 650, the day before that was almost 800.

Today is day 15 of the lockdown so that might be starting to kick in. I certainly can't remember two consecutive days with the number of deaths falling recently.

Hopefully the tide is turning.

[i961pie]

600 dead in Italy in the last 24 hours. The day before was 650, the day before that was almost 800.

Today is day 15 of the lockdown so that might be starting to kick in. I certainly can't remember two consecutive days with the number of deaths falling recently.

Hopefully the tide is turning.

Let's hope so.

[forwardmagpie]

600 dead in Italy in the last 24 hours. The day before was 650, the day before that was almost 800.

Today is day 15 of the lockdown so that might be starting to kick in. I certainly can't remember two consecutive days with the number of deaths falling recently.

Hopefully the tide is turning.

I hope and pray that the terrible scenes in Italy start to reduce and eventually end 🤞🤞🙏🙏

[Old_pie]

I'm not convinced we are being told the truth of how this spreads. The story was that it was from touching something then touching your face and it getting in your eyes, mouth or nose. That was why the mantra was "wash your hands". Now it's "stay 2m apart". ok, so if you cough, sneeze, the droplets can go 2m before hitting the ground, or so they say but with the rate this is spreading I suspect there's more of it hanging around in the air than is being admitted.

Our death rate curve is going to show the same rise next week as other countries. It is criminal that doctors and nurses are catching and dying from it yet there will still be a crowd at the supermarket when I next go to look at empty shelves.

[upthemaggies]

I suspect there's more of it hanging around in the air than is being admitted.

"Researchers from the National Institutes of Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, UCLA and Princeton University examined how long COVID-19 survives in the air...... They found that COVID-19 was detectable in aerosols for up to three hours"

This is at room temperature, so it will survive longer in the cold. Outdoors it will disperse, but indoors it will hang around which is why going to pubs is such a bad idea.

[Old_pie]

"Researchers from the National Institutes of Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, UCLA and Princeton University examined how long COVID-19 survives in the air...... They found that COVID-19 was detectable in aerosols for up to three hours"

This is at room temperature, so it will survive longer in the cold. Outdoors it will disperse, but indoors it will hang around which is why going to pubs is such a bad idea.

There is online documentation of studies of Aerosol transmission in hospitals going back 40-50yrs. I had however taken these to mean from equipment used that create sprays, eg ventilators, but it seems that it's formal use is simply suspended in air. And even as recently as a few days ago the picture doesn't seem clear:

https://www.statnews.com/2020/03/16/...t-mean-doomed/

So how about shops, buses, etc etc. Well to be honest I'm not going anywhere by bus but I have to go to the shops unless there is a change there. Probably should have signed up for on-line shopping.

Maybe need to dig out my chainsaw protective gear and sanding masks.

All might change again after 8.30pm, PM's next broadcast. And to think Notts were playing just a week ago and there was divided opinion as to whether the Torquay game should go ahead.