O/T:- Self-Isolating

[sidders]

An expert on the BBc has said at the minute it looks like you can't get it again after having it once. Still early days for that assumption

Saying 'it looks like' indemnifies him/her, doesn't it?

[downunderpie]

Decided yesterday to self-isolate,both 75,wife has a few problems,lovely big house can still take walks around the bush parks with no one around.If it takes 3/6 months so be it this is all going to get worse before it gets better IT IS NOT THE FLU and the bit out of the water is not main iceberg.I wish you all the best for whatever decision you make,for me it's a no brainer.....

[GranthamPie]

I live in a small village in Lincolnshire. We’re looking at the idea of the postcard pushed through over 70s doors, so that we can do their shopping, pick up their prescriptions or post items for them.

The level of selfishness and irresponsibility displayed by people stripping shelves of basic items like soap, sanitary products is truly shocking and these people should be ashamed. The irony of denying others the ability to wash their hands and so add fuel to the current crisis is simply laughable.

Anyroad... look after your elderly neighbours... look after each other and don’t lower yourselves to the levels of others.

[downunderpie]

I have booked 10 days in Spain in early June and I have to pay for it by March 31st.
I think I will forfeit my deposit and cancel or should I get the deposit (£120) back? being Spain is in lockdown and jet 2
have stopped flights there.

Hold on get in touch with the agent and see if the 31st can be altered,things are changing by the hour,don't forfeit they may give you a credit anyway but if you cancel that's it wait till the last...

[downunderpie]

The flu jab is only 60-70% effective against a flu virus. There are millions of strains of influenza going around the world at any time.

Most vaccines just isolate one part of a virus and attack that.

As far as I am aware, it is near on impossible to vaccinate against a virus. The best way is just to let it take it's course.

And there I was thinking Harold Shipman was dead....

[drillerpie]

And there I was thinking Harold Shipman was dead....

I don't know if he's just really thick or a deviant who gets his kicks from wilfully giving misinformation at a time of crisis.

There are a few on here who seem to relish a idea of letting the virus rip, and watching everything crash and burn. 'Darwinian fantasies' was how another poster described it.

Most of them seem to be out of the at risk age range, or live in places like New Zealand where there are few cases and it's easier to isolate it. Funny that hey?

[sidders]

The flu jab is only 60-70% effective against a flu virus. There are millions of strains of influenza going around the world at any time.

Most vaccines just isolate one part of a virus and attack that.

As far as I am aware, it is near on impossible to vaccinate against a virus. The best way is just to let it take it's course.

Not only is this last statement poppycock, it is dangerous and misleading. The only fact is that a vaccine is not 100% effective against a virus.
And why do we wash our hands? Because they are likely to the repositories of anything being issued from our lungs / mouths.

[drillerpie]

Not only is this last statement poppycock, it is dangerous and misleading. The only fact is that a vaccine is not 100% effective against a virus.
And why do we wash our hands? Because they are likely to the repositories of anything being issued from our lungs / mouths.

Yeah what he wrote about it being impossible to vaccinate against a virus is wrong. Polio is a virus isn't it? We have a vaccine for that. There are others I'm sure.

He manages to cram 2 or 3 massive factual errors into pretty much every post which pretty hard unless you're doing it on purpose.

[upthemaggies]

Yeah what he wrote about it being impossible to vaccinate against a virus is wrong. Polio is a virus isn't it? We have a vaccine for that. There are others I'm sure.

He manages to cram 2 or 3 massive factual errors into pretty much every post which pretty hard unless you're doing it on purpose.

Still no vaccine for the Corona variant MERS, which has been around since 2012, though perhaps that's because of a lack of urgency as it doesn't spread from person to person quite so easily.

[countygump]

Still no vaccine for the Corona variant MERS, which has been around since 2012, though perhaps that's because of a lack of urgency as it doesn't spread from person to person quite so easily.

Interesting and quite scary as well.



https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/art...56521#covid-19