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South Korea informing people via their mobiles if they have been in a virus affected area and telling them to get tested. Seems very hi tech their approach and it seems they have plenty of testing available. Source BBC News Channel.
 
I'm pretty sure I had this in the States before Christmas...
had most of the listed symptoms, including the breathing difficulties (which I don't normally get, also didn't fee like the normal flu... not that flu is normal - but just saying it did not feel like anything I had had before). I thought actually at the time thought damn! this American virus shit is tough!! Well I was ill for 3 weeks, the first week literally could not get out of bed for more than 5 mins. If I could have afforded to have called a Doctor I would have. Upshot is if you are reasonably fit and healthy you will be OK!! And just to say I am flying home on Wednesday from the US and I plan to offer myself up for testing for antibodies to it... as I believe I have had it so might be of help.?
I saw a few things not that long ago which was suggesting that the spate of unexplained deaths that there being linked to a mysterious vaping illness could have been this. That was late last year, sort of october ish.
 
I saw a few things not that long ago which was suggesting that the spate of unexplained deaths that there being linked to a mysterious vaping illness could have been this. That was late last year, sort of october ish.

This is uninformed ignorant rumourmongering. Please stop quoting “a few things you’ve seen” or similar without sourcing. It’s just irresponsible.

Doctors can tell the difference between viral pneumonia and EVALI (the vape disease) - in particular via CT scan which is part of the management pathway for EVALI inpatients.

Please keep conspiracy theories over on 4chan or wherever. Thank you.
 
The Spanish PM has delivered a particularly grim address today, saying the next seven days will be “extremely hard” and the worst is yet to come.
 
There was an outbreak around that time of a killer vaping illness. (they even named it EVALI)

Getting all hoity toity when all we're all doing is looking for answers, is a bit wanky. I presented nothing as fact. And if you're sitting around waiting for those, you may be in for a hell of a shock. It'll be far too late to do anything about it. I'm sorry that discussion is so offensive to you.
 
Spain is building a hospital in a disused exhibition space, seems like a very good idea.

NEC anyone?

I wont be surprised if its used for something in this pandemic, whether as an actual hospital I couldnt guess.

Military helicopters have already been doing pandemic-related training exercises around Birmingham Airport.

 
There was an outbreak around that time of a killer vaping illness. (they even named it EVALI)

Getting all hoity toity when all we're all doing is looking for answers, is a bit wanky. I presented nothing as fact. And if you're sitting around waiting for those, you may be in for a hell of a shock. It'll be far too late to do anything about it. I'm sorry that discussion is so offensive to you.
Putting a vaping illness in a Covid-19 thread is the worst sort of infantile bollocks. Just stop it. It's as relevant as talking about Mossad and 9/11.
 
There was an outbreak around that time of a killer vaping illness. (they even named it EVALI)

Getting all hoity toity when all we're all doing is looking for answers, is a bit wanky. I presented nothing as fact. And if you're sitting around waiting for those, you may be in for a hell of a shock. It'll be far too late to do anything about it. I'm sorry that discussion is so offensive to you.

I am fully aware of this disease. It is the conflatiion of this and Covid-19 that I am objecting to. This is not ‘looking for answers’. This is conspiralunacy, and has in my opinion no place on at the very least this thread, where people are sharing information, not the half-baked ideas of people who don’t know better.
 
I am fully aware of this disease. It is the conflatiion of this and Covid-19 that I am objecting to. This is not ‘looking for answers’. This is conspiralunacy, and has in my opinion no place on at the very least this thread, where people are sharing information, not the half-baked ideas of people who don’t know better.
Sorry Doctor.
 
For the avoidance of doubt, let's carve that gem here in stone, for all future reference.
And insert it on the end of a massive dildo....

anyway, not the thread for splitting hairs and doing the usual urban75 thing.
 
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Oh for heaven's sake. We already knew that you can be infectious before showing any symptoms. The article just describes a perfectly ordinary scenario. You could write the same thing about having a cold.
Indeed you could - well, without the death part, or the specific effects on your lungs. But the writer conveys the spread of (an) infection beautifully terrifyingly in a way that clearly shows why all the physical distancing and hand washing is important in a way that 'knowing you can be infectious before showing any symptoms' doesn't.
 
Just been out to Intermarche , the nearest supermarket . Didn’t take photos in the store but can safely say no panic buying in that store . Took some photos of the car park though.
 

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The Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Löfven is making a “speech to the nation” later tonight. It’s a rarely invoked constitutional measure, I think last time they used it was when a government minister had been assassinated.

I would imagine he’ll announce the schools are closing (as they haven’t yet), but if he says anything else noteworthy I’ll update later.
 
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