Off Topic Corona virus - non football

I'm not normally the one to lick the arses of governments - or airline companies! - but it's also a question of how many of these flights are essential and how many people are on them.

My son was working in a restaurant in Florida - you can imagine how that turned out! Anyway, eventually he can get back today/tomorrow, Miami>New York, New York>Rome, Rome>Venice. He's in Miami airport at the moment and says it's empty.

Here I agree completely. My son reckons it'll take him an extra hour to get out of Venice airport due to health checks, then he'll have to self-isolate for a fortnight - and you can be damn sure the plod will be around to make sure he's not out of the house.

 

A great philosopher once wrote naughty, naughty, very naughty

 

E's not wrong either .....

 

667 deaths from 710 yesterday

Slowly but surely

 

I hope you're right mate ...

"On Sunday China’s national health commission reported 108 new infections, the highest number in more than five weeks."

 

That's not even a ripple marra out of a country with owa a billion people

 

It could be the start all over again Jerry, we cannot relax just yet, the government would really be crucified if we went too soon and the virus reappeared just when people were beginning to think we'd cracked it..

 

I reckon our government will be watching the Chinese figures closely. If there’s a second wave, we’ve got no chance of getting freed from lockdown for the foreseeable.

 

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That's the conundrum isn't it.

Because it takes a while for the virus to be confirmed you could lift the lockdown and find you're back to a crisis a fortnight later.

 

What has to be implemented if this lock-down carries on long term is a Universal Income for all, it'll be the only sensible way forward IMHO there's families on the breadline now and was always a few cheques away from being destitute - I'm starting to worry as a self employed earner.

 

Most of the 108 chinese infections are from people coming into the country

 

Doesn't make you keen on air travel tbh.

 

I read somewhere that they are coming into a province on the Russian border via a route that had been overlooked, so if they close that entry point and contact trace the ones that got back in it should not be too bad - hopefully. That said, this info is coming from a country where the local authories suppressed a doctor from warning the world so it may be bull.

Found it on BBC;
The usually obscure land crossing between Russia and China in the northern province of Heilongjiang has seen a persistent cluster of travellers bringing the virus with them. New ‘imported’ cases there are almost all Chinese coming home, and they appear to be spreading it. The latest official figures reveal 10 new domestic cases, seven of which are in Heilongjiang, home to that land crossing.

 

What gets me is why there reporting deaths as daily deaths when the victims died from the virus a few days if not weeks ago




It takes days or even weeks for a fatality to be put on record, so if the country is in the peak of its outbreak now - as was predicted in the lead-up to Easter - death numbers are unlikely to drop significantly for at least another week.

 

They are reporting a number of deaths in a Care Home in Stanley

My mum is in a Care Home in Jarrow

 

I meant as part of the official figures, I'm sure unfortunately it's only hospital cases. You have to add on the care homes

Although I hope to god I am wrong

 

https://www.bing.com/videos/search?...66E723A65842D63EB9BB66E&view=detail&FORM=VIRE

Shocking

 

If a person dies, even in hospital, of Covid-19 and is declared as such and is entered on the death certificateas being due to the virus.
. . . but the patient had not actually been tested in time. . . . it is NOT counted in the daily death totals given out.
Add this to people dying outside of hospital, care homes, respite homes etc then the real totals may be horrendous.
I sincerely hope we peak soon and can see some light at the end of the tunnel.
Stay well everyone snd stay home if you can. KTF

 

I guess the impostion of the lockdown (although later than it should have been) is working in that the spread is probably slowing and deaths decreasing?

However unless good testing can be introduced ( I do not blame the govt for hoping the 3.5m useless tests would work, they need to try evetything), I cannot see how the lockdown can be lifted until a vaccine is obtained.