I wouldn't mind getting Coronavirus. Apparently they put you up in a hotel in Brighton for a couple weeks and they even let you use a Playstation so I hear. Sounds good to me.
Coronavirus in the UK - news, lockdown and discussion
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flypanam
Sausage to fortune
Slight derail but there was this excellent interview in the New Yorker with the Frank M Snowden who has written a book about pandemics
How pandemics change history
with an interesting observations that
How pandemics change history
with an interesting observations that
phillm
Trolling through Life (TM)
StoneRoad
heckling from the back!
Not that I would voluntarily go to this particular hospital (it has a woeful reputation and my personal experience was not good)
Statement from NCIC March 4th 2020:
"The Trust can confirm that member of hospital staff has tested presumptive positive for Covid19 following a trip to northern Italy.
On returning from the trip the member of staff sensibly self-isolated and did not come into work or have any contact with patients.
We can assure the public that the risk remains low. The Trust is operating normally and there is no need to cancel any appointment
So that implies someone is "at home" in the area, probably with the virus.
Lovely. Lots of potential here ...
They could live anywhere within a 50 / 60 mile radius.
Statement from NCIC March 4th 2020:
"The Trust can confirm that member of hospital staff has tested presumptive positive for Covid19 following a trip to northern Italy.
On returning from the trip the member of staff sensibly self-isolated and did not come into work or have any contact with patients.
We can assure the public that the risk remains low. The Trust is operating normally and there is no need to cancel any appointment
So that implies someone is "at home" in the area, probably with the virus.
Lovely. Lots of potential here ...
They could live anywhere within a 50 / 60 mile radius.
phillm
Trolling through Life (TM)
Select committee live now with Professor Chris Whitty.
cupid_stunt
Merry fecking Christmas.
Select committee live now with Professor Chris Whitty.
And, someone in the room is coughing away.
phillm
Trolling through Life (TM)
yes they should be told to leave the room. Being aware of cough/cold type symptoms and the chance of not spreading them should be enough for them to make their excuses and leave.
elbows
Well-Known Member
Good. Havent read about the reversal yet, but the last thing they needed to do was to create suspicion and leave a vacuum where people would fill the info void with made up stuff (or leaked genuine stuff that we cant verify officially).
At one point Chris Whitty coughed into his had whilst speaking. It can't be helped. The important thing is cover your mouth and wash your hands as soon as possible.
cupid_stunt
Merry fecking Christmas.
Here's the link.
Coronavirus UK: U-turn over plan to stop daily geographical updates
Chief medical officer admits ‘communications fumble’ over providing data on virus spread
He did go on to say it would continue to be at county & city level, not specific communities, so not a lot of help.
andysays
Love and solidarity
Thanks for the link.Here's the link.
Coronavirus UK: U-turn over plan to stop daily geographical updates
Chief medical officer admits ‘communications fumble’ over providing data on virus spreadwww.theguardian.com
He did go on to say it would continue to be at county & city level, not specific communities, so not a lot of help.
I think there's a balance to strike between providing info to the public and the risk of identifying individuals. Not sure how useful it would be to know, e.g., what street newly diagnosed cases live on.
elbows
Well-Known Member
Even more generalised location info is of potential help and way better than none. It will be interesting to see if the level of detail changes over time, what the maps are like etc.
The idea that a 24 hour delay is just to ensure they've got the details right is unlikely to be the whole story there. They want a bit of wiggle room, and are likely thinking of the stages where increases in particular areas tend to tell a story the public might respond strongly too, and the authorities want a head-start on that sort of reaction.
The idea that a 24 hour delay is just to ensure they've got the details right is unlikely to be the whole story there. They want a bit of wiggle room, and are likely thinking of the stages where increases in particular areas tend to tell a story the public might respond strongly too, and the authorities want a head-start on that sort of reaction.
elbows
Well-Known Member
Yeah, I think Singapore publicly shared info about where cases worked and where they lived, but thats a surveillance state with a very different level of control over people, and different expectations about what the public might do with that info.
I dont think street level data will be all that useful for us during large outbreaks anyway.
need a thread on the profiteers, name and shame
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
you seem to be taking the lead on this one
How did the 1918 Spanish Flu change society, not sure that it did in that case, the Plague certainly did.
brogdale
Coming to terms with late onset Anarchism
I really hadn't thought go it that context...although I see where you're going with it.
I'd merely made a sort of Portmanteau of coronavirus & prorogue to express Johnson's good fortune in finding an emergency that may 'require' the inconvenient democratic scrutiny of Parliament to be suspended.
brogdale
Coming to terms with late onset Anarchism
I'd imagine that historians would find it very difficult to isolate the societal impacts of the 1918/19 influenza epidemic from the world shattering events that had immediately preceded it.
I will say that It's always shocked me that a good number of the graves in many CWGC sites mark the year of death as 1919, though.
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
flypanam
Sausage to fortune
Spanish flu: the virus that changed the world
In spring 1918 a disease began to sweep around the planet – a lethal virus that infected a third of the world's population and left upwards of 50 million dead. Laura Spinney explores the devastating impact of the Spanish flu pandemic and how it compares to the Coronavirus crisis
www.historyextra.com
elbows
Well-Known Member
One factor is that people saw shortages of toilet rolls in other countries being reported for weeks on end.
Another is they take up a lot of shelf space so their absence is more visually dramatic and there are more obvious limits to how many are on the shelves and taking up store room space.
beesonthewhatnow
going deaf for a living
No idea. My local Tesco was fully stocked as usual this morning.
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