Coronavirus (Non-Politics)

[Mad Cyril]

It is over a week since I tested positive and I feel worse than I did then.

Cold symptoms and loss of sense of taste/smell but no high temperature or trouble breathing.

 

[londonblue]

It is over a week since I tested positive and I feel worse than I did then.

Cold symptoms and loss of sense of taste/smell but no high temperature or trouble breathing.

Think of it like this: the symptoms will (hopefully) only last a finite length of time, so you're a week closer to getting through it than you were a week ago, regardless of how you feel.

 

[Member]

It is over a week since I tested positive and I feel worse than I did then.

Cold symptoms and loss of sense of taste/smell but no high temperature or trouble breathing.

There’s a lot of reports similar to this, where it gets worse in the second week. Hope you recover quickly mate

 

[Tinks]

It is over a week since I tested positive and I feel worse than I did then.

Cold symptoms and loss of sense of taste/smell but no high temperature or trouble breathing.

I had mine back in late March/Early April and I still don’t have all of my taste and smell back

 

[Sandbach Shrimper]

I don't want to sound all tin hat, but the track and trace thingy doesn't sit well with me. I'm not happy the government knows my movements. Added to this pub curfews for 10 o'clock and not meeting up in large groups. Cant help worry where is all this going?

'Health passports' and compulsory vaccines, that's where we're heading. That's why the government need to keep the fear and the lie going. If you still think all these ridiculous rules are just about 'controlling the virus', you're naive. Too much has been invested in vaccine programmes now.

Virtually no risk to them doesn't stop them spreading the virus to those that are at risk from it. Nobody wants to curtail kids having a good time, we all yearn for that, but ignoring the risk to others as you suggest, is more than selfish. Thankfully a lot of the young of this country do recognise their social responsibilities.

People who are at risk (predominantly the elderly with serious underlying conditions) can protect themselves and stay at home if they want to while the rest of us get on with life, although I'm sure a lot of them probably feel life isn't worth living at the moment. Life is full of risks. At the end of the day, only a tiny fraction of the people who get this virus die from it or even need hospital treatment.

 

[GrumpyBlue]

For all you conspiracy theorists out there. Here's in interesting article from Forbes magazine:

Click here

Did you know that the Russian Flu of the 1890s was blamed on the newly invented electric lightbulb? The difference was that we didn't have mass communication in those days so not as many people were exposed to that ridiculous notion. Today we would laugh at that, but that was the conspiracy theory of the day. Roll on 100 years and we'll all be laughing at people burning down 5G masts.

Even more funny is that some people advocated taking quinine to ward off the flu. Quinine is an antimalarial drug, which meant people that who were actually suffering from malaria couldn't get hold of the drug, and that the price had been inflated. Quinine is also the antecedent of chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine!

I wonder if humanity will ever learn from its mistakes.

(As an aside, it was also that flu that led to the extremely famous law case of Carlill v. Carbolic Smoke Ball Company.)

Blimey - I remember that from my contract law studies almost 50 years ago

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

'Health passports' and compulsory vaccines, that's where we're heading. That's why1. the government need to keep the fear and the lie going. If you still think all these ridiculous rules are just about 'controlling the virus', you're naive. Too much has been invested in vaccine programmes now.



2.People who are at risk (predominantly the elderly with serious underlying conditions) can protect themselves and stay at home if they want to while the rest of us get on with life, although I'm sure a lot of them probably feel life isn't worth living at the moment. Life is full of risks. At the end of the day, 3.only a tiny fraction of the people who get this virus die from it or even need hospital treatment.

1.What is "the lie" here exacly in your opinion?

2.What about those of pension age (like myself) who choose to go out and earn a little extra cash?

3.According to figures I saw on C4 news yesterday over 42,000 people have now died from the virus in the UK.(the figure is similar though slighly higher in Spain.France which has a similar size population to the UK is a much better basis for comparison.The death rate there is much lower.

 

[rigsby]

1.What is the lie here exacly in your opinion?

2.What about those of pension age (like myself) who choose to go out and earn a little extra cash?

3.According to figures I saw on C4 news yesterday over 42,000 people have now died from the virus in the UK.(the figure is similar though slighly higher in Spain.France which has a similar size population to the UK is a much better basis for comparison.The death rate there is much lower.

Saying someones death is linked to corona is not the same thing a died from the virus.

Portugal have had less than 2,000 deaths. Greece only count actually Covid deaths and not those that are linked, currently just 391. In certain areas, where the super wealthy have their summer houses.....All the night clubs and tavernas were open to full capacity in July/August, yet they all seem fine.

 

[kaymac]

“Seem” being the operative word. Actually, you don’t know, do you. Unless been on a fact-finding trip to Greece in recent times perchance?

 

[rigsby]

“Seem” being the operative word. Actually, you don’t know, do you. Unless been on a fact-finding trip to Greece in recent times perchance?

Or your friend lives in Greece and his family, friends and extended business contacts were all at the party this summer.

 

[kaymac]

The party? Thought you said parties....and full tavernas in July/Aug? Where they in attendance at all of those establishments and each and every night ?

I have friends who live and work in Greece too....

 

[rigsby]

The party? Thought you said parties....and full tavernas in July/Aug? Where they in attendance at all of those establishments and each and every night ?

I have friends who live and work in Greece too....

So why is the official death toll only 391 since March?

 

[Napster]

So why is the official death toll only 391 since March?

Because they contained it better.

Current state of Covid-19 outbreak in Greece and timeline of key containment events - NPHO

The first COVID-19 case was diagnosed in Greece on February 26th. Contact tracing was initiated on the first and all subsequent confirmed cases, with all contacts being tested and isolated. On February 27th, the annual carnival in Patra (an event which draws big crowds from all over the...

eody.gov.gr

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

1.Saying someones death is linked to corona is not the same thing a died from the virus.

Portugal have had less than 2,000 deaths. 2.Greece only count actually Covid deaths and not those that are linked, currently just 391. In certain areas, where the super wealthy have their summer houses.....All the night clubs and tavernas were open to full capacity in July/August, yet they all seem fine.

1.I think (we both know) the excess deaths figure is the most useful number here.Unfortunately,C4 news don't usually quote this in their headline figures.

2.It so happens that our younger daugher (and her boyfriend) were in Zante in early August, at the same time as there were a lot of scare stories in the British media banging on about young Brits getting the virus in the capital there.Granted our daughter was staying in the north of the Island (at a college mate's parent's villa-don't think he qualifies as "super weathly " btw but he is Greek).Fortunately, (and perhaps not suprisingly), they didn't catch the virus.Since they both live in Paris they know they have to be careful when out and about.

 

[rigsby]

Because they contained it better.

Current state of Covid-19 outbreak in Greece and timeline of key containment events - NPHO

The first COVID-19 case was diagnosed in Greece on February 26th. Contact tracing was initiated on the first and all subsequent confirmed cases, with all contacts being tested and isolated. On February 27th, the annual carnival in Patra (an event which draws big crowds from all over the...

eody.gov.gr

So why Greece stopped their carnivals we were allowing BLM and climate change protests....do you think they should have been stopped?

 

[rigsby]

The party? Thought you said parties....and full tavernas in July/Aug? Where they in attendance at all of those establishments and each and every night ?

I have friends who live and work in Greece too....

In Porto Cheli and Spetses its one big party in the hight of summer. Plenty of Europe's elite and the Greek 0.001% return from all over Europe with their children, friends and security crews.

Those strict lockdown rules seem to work even if they were London based.

 

[Napster]

Trump has the virus

 

[OldBlueLady]

Trump has the virus

Sometimes Twitter is great!

https://twitter.com/x/status/1311893145441898496

 

[Benfleet A1]

Trump has the virus

Fingers crossed.

 

[Supernaut]

Trump has the virus

Couldn't have happened to a nicer bloke.