Coronavirus: Please use this thread for all COVID19 talk!

Doing what exactly? All this talk of the virus becoming a defining point of the generation is comical.

 

Of course I have. What you said is actually wrong, and I didn’t like the way you apparently wrote off those over 70.

 

Anyone that has elderly relatives should be very concerned that the virus does not get out of control and should follow any expert advise given. The vaccination for this is still a way off while the elderly and vunerable have a flu jab in the autumn to help them through normal influenza.

 

I am 72 and feeling very vulnerable, I have a horrible feeling that I have seen my last live Premier game. Being confined to home is going to be hard to cope with, but if that is what it takes, so be it.

 

I wasn't writing them off, I just said they were more at risk.

 

So doesn’t that worry you then?

 

Practising social distancing, washing your hands more frequently etc etc. Hopefully it won't be a defining point of a generation, and that will be in part to what we do now.

 

US President Donald Trump is trying to 'buy' away German researchers working on a vaccine against the new corona virus. Trump would like to obtain exclusive rights to that vaccine, Welt am Sonntag reports from sources in government circles.
https://www.ad.nl/buitenland/trump-...TaUbgxcviIfl6A20tReuh07Vxkr4cJ_SoY2tYc3kW-sq8

 

Surely the US and UK experts are conducting their own research.

 

St Badger posted this earlier...

https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/n...oronavirus-vaccine-after-tests-on-mice/14/03/

 

I have been down with a dose of what the NHS think is seasonal flu for the past week but I have had all the symptoms of Coronavirus with the most horrid sore throat, a raging fever and a chronic chest infection that is still hanging around. I called 111 but was just told to self-isolate. No offer of help and it took 5 attempts to even get through. I decided to stay in bed until the worst of it was over and stopped anyone coming to the house.

I have now decided that I will suspend my business until further notice because there's no way of knowing whether I have had the Coronavirus. I am not taking the risk of passing this on to anyone, and I am not chancing catching it if what I had wasn't the virus. The 111 system at the NHS is a disaster with the woman I spoke to clearly reading out the questions from a crib sheet.

I would advise anyone who is over 60 to take great care out there and avoid close contact with people as much as possible because what I have had the past week is enough to knock anyone over. I have used 4 Ventolin and a bucket of pain killers in a week just trying to subdue this and some might well not get through it. I feel for anyone who is hit with what I have had so go careful, very careful.

Be safe everyone, and wishing all of you the very safest journey over the coming months.

 

German and Dutch research ahead by some distance. The European Medicines Agency has relocated in Amsterdam from London thanks to another brexit triumph. https://www.ema.europa.eu/en

 

Where are you based Kaito and if it's not a rude question how old are you?..glad the see that you are over the worst of it...
Also are you a registered asthmatic and how did you manage to get 4 Ventolin inhalers (I have just the one) will a preventative inhaler work?
Edit: Sorry mate another query did you have a flu jab?

 

All the best Kaits, take care mate.

 

Surely coordinated research world wide is needed, pooled knowledge and access. It's certainly happening in the EU https://www.ema.europa.eu/en

 

Yes you are correct of course StJ, Brexit and Trump couldn't have happened at a worse time...thanks to who voted that way.

 

Take care !

 

Yep. And it’s that last one that has governments around the world running scared. Even well resourced, adequately staffed health services are potentially going to get overwhelmed, then it’s a case of prioritising who gets treatment and who doesn’t; not just for the virus, for anything. That’s why they don’t want people visiting their GPs or local hospitals for anything non life threatening.

 

Mate, I’m pretty confident you and I, and hopefully my 89 year old dad, will all live to see Saints win a game of football again at some point

Could be a long wait come to think of it, but that might have been the case without the virus...

 

This is not a time to be flippant or to joke for we are facing a monumental crisis with potentially a great many deaths. For the first time in my life I realise what it is like for a soldier going into action and wondering whether he will survive. Then there are those who lived through the blitz in Southampton not knowing when they went to bed whether they would be alive in the morning and the feared invasion following the fall of Dunkirk. My mother lost a great many of her family in WW1 and to the flu epidemic that followed it.

I will admit to a certain degree of fear at this time which is why the very lovely Mrs Godders and I are being careful and have self isolated. We have very good friends and neighbours and also our daughters to keep an eye on us. There are lots of very elderly people who don't so if you are young and fit and are able to support an elderly neighbour, especially someone living alone, please do. Remember these are the very people who won't be able to order on line as they are least likely to be on the internet or have a car to nip to the shops in or the money to stockpile or a credit card.

I am just hoping that the very lovely Mrs Godders and my friends and family survive this awful pandemic.