Thread: Corona Virus

Originally Posted by BradC

Can't see how that could conceivably be possible. Lockdown gave everyone the ****s.

On a more serious note, given what I've seen around over the last 24 hours (or so) I have serious reservations about keeping a lid on this in Melb. I very much hope people continue to play by the rules and effective contact tracing can contain any spot flare-ups.

Somehow I did get that impression, Brad. I reckon the airspace over Melbourne would have sounded like a Hundred million bees having a go, all at once.

Originally Posted by BradC

Can't see how that could conceivably be possible. Lockdown gave everyone the ****s.

On a more serious note, given what I've seen around over the last 24 hours (or so) I have serious reservations about keeping a lid on this in Melb. I very much hope people continue to play by the rules and effective contact tracing can contain any spot flare-ups.

Targeted restrictions instead of unpopular lockdowns are not working in Europe. Here's hoping our isolation at the bottom of the planet will work in our favour. It would seem our population has played by the rules in the main, so far.

France and Germany re-enter lockdown

Europe has tried for weeks to slow the spread of the virus with targeted restrictions instead of the unpopular nationwide lockdowns that were imposed in the spring. But as a furious second wave pushes hospitalizations, deaths and cases to levels not seen since the beginning of the pandemic, countries have begun to change course.

France today announced a nationwide lockdown until Dec. 1, with just schools and essential businesses allowed to stay open. Germany moved very close to one, closing restaurants, gyms and museums for one month, but exempting schools and shops — “lockdown lite,” as the Germans called it.

Elsewhere on the continent, people were already seeing their lives heavily restricted. Spain went into a state of emergency last week, while the Italian government moved on Sunday to shut restaurants by 6 p.m. Belgium, which currently has the highest infection rate in the region, recently shuttered restaurants, museums and gyms.

The moves are roiling business leaders, who say the lockdowns will undo any hope for an economic recovery. European stocks sank to their lowest levels in months.

But as hospitals fill at an alarming rate, doctors and medical experts say the closures are necessary. In Germany, the number of patients in hospitals has doubled in the past 10 days, and in France, the health care system was two weeks away from reaching the same number of hospitalizations as the peak of the first wave.

Frédéric Valletoux, president of the French Hospital Federation, said that hospitals were in a much more precarious situation than in the spring: staff members were exhausted from the first wave, there was less leeway to defer treatments or surgeries to make room for Covid-19 patients, and other epidemics like the flu would soon be arriving with the start of winter.

Got an email from my brother in Houston today. I'll quote the relevant part with a few bits redacted:-

"....... also said she would be there. But this morning she emailed
to say she had been at a wedding on Saturday, attended by 100
Republicans who think Covid-19 is fake news, and wearing a mask is an
affront to their freedom. As a result, she decided she should stay at
home, just in case she was infected.

This afternoon she emailed us to say that the bride (her niece) and the
bartender had both tested positive."

Originally Posted by JDNSW

Got an email from my brother in Houston today. I'll quote the relevant part with a few bits redacted:-

"....... also said she would be there. But this morning she emailed
to say she had been at a wedding on Saturday, attended by 100
Republicans who think Covid-19 is fake news, and wearing a mask is an
affront to their freedom. As a result, she decided she should stay at
home, just in case she was infected.

This afternoon she emailed us to say that the bride (her niece) and the
bartender had both tested positive."

Good for her for sticking to her guns & bugger a bit of Wedding Cake.

Sounds like the Married couple will remember the Wedding day for the wrong reasons..

Originally Posted by JDNSW

Got an email from my brother in Houston today...

Have daughter now living in Houston. Her view on things in general within the US is "everything is optional"

Originally Posted by Ferret

Have daughter now living in Houston. Her view on things in general within the US is "everything is optional"

Hospital might be optional in Malaysia as well? 1/3 for the people dying there were not in Hospital.


‘One third was brought in dead’ | The Star

Mate in Wales just got boxed in again. He is reasonable happy as they had Covid19 and now are being told they can get it a second time as antibody protection seems to fade a lot faster than most of us would have wished

"Coronavirus antibodies declined rapidly in the British population during summer, according to a study led by Imperial College London. It suggests people may have a waning immunity because antibody protection after a COVID-19 infection may not last long.

The news comes amid a surge in COVID-19 deaths globally, with 367 patients dying in one day in the UK alone.

But experts say the results aren't the "be all and end all" because there are several other immune responses at play."

A study has found coronavirus antibodies have declined rapidly in the UK population. But here'''s why we shouldn'''t be too worried - ABC News

I am just enjoying a little more relaxing post rehab with a sit down cupper in a real cup now allowed outside.

University hosts Dr Anthony Fauci for discussion on COVID-19

Originally Posted by WhiteD3

University hosts Dr Anthony Fauci for discussion on COVID-19

Why on Earth would Australia take any notice of the doctor in charge of the COV19 Disaster that is getting worse every day in the US??