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AlienALX said:
Oxford Uni reckon that if it started in January 60% of us could have already had it. Even as high as 68%.

So we need the tests asap.
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Ah yeah sorry that was the research I was referring too, I got the wrong oxbridge. So that 68% figure is still an un-achievable, theoretical figure, based on an assumption that only 1 in 1000 people develop symptoms (And we know that the real figure must be higher bc of Lombardy), but yeah I think that research was more meant to push the govt. into widespread testing ASAP, and fortunately it seems to have worked, because the reality still might not be a world away from that.
 
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I had something in January. I've not had any chest complaint for 8 years since I gave up smoking, on contrast to getting bronchitis every winter. I had it for two weeks, thought I was better then got a second wave. My aunt was sick with a bad chest for a month.

So who knows? The rate it spreads and passes around it can't have just started in February.
 
Have to admit I've had a consistent minor chest pain into my third week now, but for all I know until there's testing that could just be my anxiety.
 
tgrech said:
Have to admit I've had a consistent minor chest pain into my third week now, but for all I know until there's testing that could just be my anxiety.
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I've had phantom symptoms too dude. I started coughing a bit then realised that it was just my new eliquid. Happens when I change flavours.

Fear is the mindkiller.
 
Warchild said:
What do you mean not been tested? Are you saying everyone in the UK has to get tested regardless of symptoms or not?
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She said she had actually been tested in the ambulance, I now know this to be a lie as paramedics in my area do not have testing kits and patients are only being tested if admitted to hospital. So she will have been told to isolate for 7 days which means the rest of the house would have to also isolate but for 14 days.
She is certainly well enough to be shouting at her kids today and the man of the house decided it was ok to take the dog out to the local park.
Its one thing to be poorly but to actually lie and tell others you have been swab tested is deplorable.
Makes a mockery of those who have died or are genuinely suffering.
I have a close friend who has been declared suspected via 111 and is now in isolation

tgrech said:
A few days ago he said his neighbour was confirmed to have corona, which understandably would have caused him concern. But I will point out Rob, over here you can be "confirmed" to have coronavirus without being tested at the moment, due to the small number of tests available here during the last 2 weeks most people diagnosed had not been tested yet, so they might not be lying.
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Yes I was worried, as a veteran of the gulf conflict in 90/91 I am still ill from the cocktail of experimental they gave us and catch even the slightest of colds with ease.

AlienALX said:
So we need the tests asap.
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indeed we do
 
So around 100 people in my neighbourhood just opened their windows and started cheering, Clapping and everyone was shouting "f**k you corona !" out of their windows :D
 
Well my replacement chair arrived, Brand new, Thank fully no more wooden kitchen stool, My butt no longer feels like it's being pounded by harambe.
 
AlienALX said:
Oxford Uni reckon that if it started in January 60% of us could have already had it. Even as high as 68%.

So we need the tests asap.
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It wouldn't surprise me if this is actually the case.
I work in Pharmacy at the moment and the amount of people I've had buying dry cough mixtures the past few months is astounding. Was all the same story too: "Been to the doctor, they had a look, said it was viral and would be gone within a few weeks."

None of the pharmacists I've worked with have experienced any winter like the last one with all these viral infections going around.

All being said, this panic is killing me at work, we've just had someone go on 12 week isolation so I'm pulling 50-60 hour weeks at the moment with at least triple the workload
 
It's silent, so we had it longer than we realised I reckon.

I had something in January that wouldn't shift. Which was unusual, because since giving up smoking cigs I can shift any cold pretty darn quick now.

Either way I self isolate any way, and have for ten years. I mean yeah, I can't go hopping taxis atm and my mother needs help but not much has changed for me.

I will miss going out on my bike, but I have plenty that need full restoration and the garden is still within limits :)
 
Eating pizza-pasta now. It is surprisingly good. I was going to make pizza, but for the love or money, I couldn't find yeast in any shape or form anywhere. There was plenty of flour of all the different kinds like people weren't stockpiling everything, but no yeast. No yeast in 4 different stores. Wtf???

Also, there were only 2 bottles of ketchup left in the supermarket. Why da fck do you need 15 liters of ketchup? Toilet paper I can understand, but man people are going dumber by the second, and they weren't that much bright to start with.
 
AlienALX said:
People are making bread. Just think, all of those unused lonely breadmakers are now out in force lmao.
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It must be that they stockpiled flour, sugar, oil, toothpaste and of course toilet paper in the first stampede. Just grab everything that you can carry. Now everything is sort of calm, there are no shortages. Yes, there is still a police curfew, and you should minimize outside time, but stores don't look like in Walking Dead. And suddenly they realized after 3 weeks: "OMG I have 36 kg of flour and no yeast OMG! OMG! PANIC!!! I must stockpile yeast now."

I really don't understand why can't you buy food for a week or two just like in normal weekend shopping?
 
And thousands of tons of food end up in the ground.

There's a name for it you know. Survival of the thickest.
 
AlienALX said:
And thousands of tons of food end up in the ground.

There's a name for it you know. Survival of the thickest.
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No, it is not. It is blatant stupidity. There is no apocalypse. There is no food shortage. Many regions of the World are recovering. Stampeding like Americans on Black Friday can only infect more people.

Most of them would probably die out in the case of the actual apocalypse as soon as their stocks run out because they wouldn't know how to make more yeast from the one that they already have.

Give the man a fish he will eat for a day. Teach him fishing and he will eat for the rest of his life.
 
The yeast shortage is widely reported to be because of people turning to baking out of boredom/having lots of free time. I don't think anyone is stockpiling yeast as a survival tactic.
 
Avet said:
No, it is not. It is blatant stupidity. There is no apocalypse. There is no food shortage. Many regions of the World are recovering. Stampeding like Americans on Black Friday can only infect more people.

Most of them would probably die out in the case of the actual apocalypse as soon as their stocks run out because they wouldn't know how to make more yeast from the one that they already have.

Give the man a fish he will eat for a day. Teach him fishing and he will eat for the rest of his life.
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I don't think you understood what I said. Thick in the UK means stupid.
 
AlienALX said:
Thick in the UK means stupid.
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Well it's now being reported that some provinces in China are reopening/have already reopened the very same wet markets responsible for the current COVID-19 crisis.

Now I'm not an unintelligent person and I'm told I have an above average creative use of expletives but IF true...

It beggars both words and belief!?!


(Maybe machine gunning the persons responsible in front of their families might bring home the f*cking message somewhat??)
 
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23RO_UK said:
Well it's now being reported that some provinces in China are reopening/have already reopened the very same wet markets responsible for the current COVID-19 crisis.

Now I'm not an unintelligent person and I'm told I have an above average creative use of expletives but IF true...

It beggars both words and belief!?!

(Maybe machine gunning the persons responsible in front of their families might bring home the f*cking message somewhat??)
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My aunt worked in China a few decades ago for a fair while and she learned that life in China doesn't carry anywhere near as much value as it does in western countries, It has nothing to do with population size, It's the mindset, Life doesn't mean much so machine gunning down the people responsible wouldn't do a thing, They'd still carry on doing it afterwards.
 
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