The Corona Virus

[Supersub6]

How is your neighbour super?

In a roundabout way --I have found out that he is slightly better but still is having breathing difficulties. His wife, who is on the very vulnerable list, receives visits daily to check that she is OK but, in these modern times, nobody tells us anything because of data protection. Fortunately, her sister also lives two doors away from us and she has kept us abreast of things, although her husband is also on the vulnerable list. It all keeps your feet firmly on the ground and we do what we can -----lots of grass cutting tomorrow for me so that is always good therapy!

[1959_60]

Sounds positive super.

[Balanbam00]

Here you are BT Just for you

https://youtu.be/7BIZoRIUqs0

[Norder]

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BT, in an average year we lose around 8,000 to flu. That is around 666 per month.

We have lost 684 to the virus IN THE LAST 24 HOURS.

And it hasn't peaked yet.

britain averages around 17,000 flu deaths a year- 59'....and is estimated (each year) to kill between 290,000 and 650,000 wordwide.

...as for Coronovirus deaths.

previously posted article from the BBC - 1 April 2020.

The death figures being reported daily are hospital cases where a person dies with the coronavirus infection in their body - because it is a notifiable disease cases have to be reported.

But what the figures do not tell us is to what extent the virus is causing the death.
It could be the major cause, a contributory factor or simply present when they are dying of something else.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-51979654

which is likely, down to the tests (admitted) Inaccuracy - when "false" positives are considered a reliable result.

[sinkov]

Even Brenda is at it now. We are proper fooooked now!

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/health/cor...cid=spartanntp

Just like your mum, always there when you need her, and you'll get more sense out of Brenda than most of the talking heads currently spouting drivel on't box.

[sinkov]

Perhaps if the Tories had not undergone their full blown austerity package over the last decade the NHS would be better prepared to handle these global "pandemics"?

Seeing as spending on the NHS was ring-fenced in the first Coalition budget in 2010, and has actually increased year on year under both the Coalition and the Tories, the question is sort of meaningless.

[The Bedlington Terrier]

Here you are BT Just for you

https://youtu.be/7BIZoRIUqs0

Thanks Balan. Made me laugh!

[The Bedlington Terrier]

Seeing as spending on the NHS was ring-fenced in the first Coalition budget in 2010, and has actually increased year on year under both the Coalition and the Tories, the question is sort of meaningless.

All I read about is shortage of PPE, ventilators, defibrillators, respirators and vibrators (). If the spending was ring fenced, why the phook do we need to urgently build three 4000 bed hospitals? I suppose you live in a world where austerity never took place?

Well actually you do! The Ribble Valley is rather secluded and immune from the grim realities of real poverty in urban life.

[The Bedlington Terrier]

After a bit of serious thought, admittedly not from a former Accrington Grammar School pupil, I suggest having backed our island nation into a corner the best way forward now for Johnson and Hancock’s Half Hour is to end this unnecessary lockdown and allow the proven scientific concept of “herd immunity” to protect the citizens of the United Kingdom.

The after-effects of this visceral lockdown will ultimately prove to be more damaging than allowing everyone to catch the virus in its mildest form. School closures, shutting down our economy with devastating long-term consequences, a hugely detrimental increase in mental illness, child abuse and domestic violence will make a few thousand deaths as a direct result from COVID-19 seem like a walk in the park.

Let’s get back to “normal” now?

[sinkov]

All I read about is shortage of PPE, ventilators, defibrillators, respirators and vibrators (). If the spending was ring fenced, why the phook do we need to urgently build three 4000 bed hospitals? I suppose you live in a world where austerity never took place?

Well actually you do! The Ribble Valley is rather secluded and immune from the grim realities of real poverty in urban life.

The problem seems more to do with logistics than a lack of funding, and countries the world over are having similar problems.

And as I mentioned to 59 a few days ago, if all governments had taken the threat of a deadly pandemic as seriously as they take the threat of global warming, and they were told often enough about the potential for one, then we wouldn't be running round like headless chickens playing catch up on PPE, ventilators etc. But no, the eco loons run the show now, in every government, in most political parties, and so the emphasis has been on windmills, electric cars, renewable energy, listening to silly schoolgirls, so when the real threat arrives, they are taken completely by surprise and are now running to catch up. Like I keep saying, we live in a lunatic asylum, and this is the result.