Corona Virus: How Are We Doing?

[Smokin Joe]

I'm glad of that, but being 69 this year I'm just wondering when you will start the obituary column as it will happen sooner than later.

How will we know who to put in it? Few of us ever meet, in months to come someone may start to speculate on why so and so hasn't posted for a while, but people come and go all the time.

 

[sleuthey]

So far 35/35 posters inc myself have voted don't have it. If this thread is as reliable as the CC General Election poll then it means we all have the virus.

 

[Joey Shabadoo]

Bloke at my work has it. In his late 40s, gym bunny, super fit. Been told to self-isolate.

My retort of "How would we notice" didn't go down well.

 

[winjim]

Probably that there is not much testing going on.

They're doing alright in Senegal apparently

https://qz.com/africa/1816621/coronavirus-rapid-test-kits-to-be-made-in-senegal-with-uk-help/

Overall they've only testing facilities in Senegal, South Africa, Ghana, Madagascar, Nigeria and Sierra Leone though.

 

[Chris S]

I wouldn't want to infect a vulnerable person so I've started to take my temperature every morning. It should be about 37C, mine's barely been above 36C.

 

[Beebo]

Our daughter has a dry cough so she’ll be off school tomorrow.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

How soon will it be before the deluge of 999 calls because McDonald's are out of nuggets?

Anyone want to touch the McDonalads touch screen to order ? I never did even before this pandemic.

 

[Smokin Joe]

So far 35/35 posters inc myself have voted don't have it. If this thread is as reliable as the CC General Election poll then it means we all have the virus.

"So far" are the operative words. That is likely to change and it will be telling to see by how much and over what time period.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

There have been very few reported cases in Africa so far, don't know what that indicates. So if anyone wants to get away from it here might be a good place to escape.

I suspect same as eastern europe. Not being tested or not being reported. Given it’s infection rate it only needs to land with one person and soon enough it’ll begin to build.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Exactly my situation, my wife is really ill with flu symptoms and respiratory distress but as she's not been in China etc there's apparently no need for a test.
My daughter is also still expected in school since she's reasonably well. (A cough and some cold symptoms but not serious).

This is the problem and why I think we are seeing it jumping so rapidly. Now during the height of my wife’s fever my nose ran for a couple of days. I suspect I would be classed as asymptomatic and a potential super spreader. It was impossible to be self isolated from her as I needed to look after her. So I had plenty of exposure to what she had. But because they won’t test her they certainly won’t test me as I don’t even have symptoms. This will be the case for many thousands upon thousands.

 

[HMS_Dave]

Nope don't know of anybody yet or any in self isolation, but here in the entire of the Midlands there are approximately 50 confirmed cases but there could be hundreds more in self isolation of course but no-one near me as far as im aware...

 

[Nigeyy]

Person in my town (Masschusetts, USA) is confirmed as having it. I know of one person personally who is self isolating but not been tested. They must have been lucky to even get testing as it's a real cluster fudge over here with testing.

A mathematics question: how can 49 votes out of 51 be 100%?

 

[Ming the Merciless]

I wouldn't want to infect a vulnerable person so I've started to take my temperature every morning. It should be about 37C, mine's barely been above 36C.

You should not be using the fridge thermometer whilst it’s still in there.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

I know case uno in this county was a parent at a school 1.5 miles away. The school is not closed. Some of the kids round here almost certainly go to it. It’s almost certainly being transmitted in this local community.

 

[fossyant]

Person in my town (Masschusetts, USA) is confirmed as having it. I know of one person personally who is self isolating but not been tested. They must have been lucky to even get testing as it's a real cluster fudge over here with testing.

A mathematics question: how can 49 votes out of 51 be 100%?

Your President's maths. Good luck.