Coronavirus Disease Outbreak COVID-19 #18

[Oohthedrama]

Really don’t want to try and moderate the thread but someone call me when the fucking China market conversation stops again.....

 

[50sGirl]

I meant that in my view it's important that individuals don't attempt to direct or moderate the thread, regardless of our personal view of how interesting the content might be. There are often elements of the conversation that personally I find less pertinent/relevant but thats life i guess

To be fair to Oohthedrama, she is a Staff Member so is allowed to moderate.
I think we’ve been very lucky on this thread not to be moderated for going off topic as much as we do.
Perhaps it is because of the seriousness of the subject that more leniency has been given when posts invariably go off topic.

Oh and for those wanting some Irish crap...
Edit: Eek, sorry that pic is huge!!

 

[monga]

Completely off topic.. human remains have been found on the Yorkshire moors ,hopefully some of Brady and Hindley's victims can be laid to rest at last

 

[Delia Smith]

I also feel sorry for truck drivers in all this. A lot of them are saying how coffee shops , toilets etc at service stations are closed and this is affecting them on top of working longer hours. They can’t get a hot meal due to their hours / places being shut.
A few have said that NHS workers can get coffees etc from service stations but not truckers.
It’s a shame something isn’t put in place for them too.

 

[Oohthedrama]

I know all deaths are awful but the 5 year old, that’s heartbreaking.

the poor family. Nobody should ever, ever have to experience this in their lifetime.

just to add, I hate saying it, but they need to release details like this, stupid people still believe it will only kill the old folk, like that’s some consolation.
and I give it a week before people get bored and start breaking rules.

Put her face and every child who’s lost their life on every paper and website for weeks.

 

[monga]

Makes you think ?

 

[Jg182]

Iv just seen on my Facebook, someone planning a street bbq for Sunday!!! Surely there’s no way they can do this safety, with kids mixing!!

 

[idk2]

I’m not feeling well...

I’m finding myself attracted to a poorly Boris Johnson with a husky voice

We cant stoop this low people!!

 

[carebear123]

I really wish people would listen on how serious its getting. a family member of mine has sadly passed from this I got the phone call this morning its hit home with all our family

 

[JoeBloggs]

That’s my biggest fear in all this. If a loved one gets it, they will most likely die alone.

A neighbour of mines husband passed last week, he had cancer and died of a chest infection not covid but because of covid his wife had to say goodbye at the ambulance. It’s not just covid patients dying alone. Also people are finding out diagnosis alone, an instagrammer found she had womb cancer yesterday, her husband wasn’t allowed to be with her in the hospital.

It’s needed measures but so hard!

 

[Hopping12]

People honestly baffle me.

My partner is a fitter for a big company fitting bathrooms and kitchens. He was meant to finish last Friday, he’s self employed we was willing to take the hit- we’ve still got a few more payments from jobs coming in and also tax rebate for this year (19/20) fingers crossed. And just manage till June when the help for the self employed comes in.

Anyway a customer who was told their kitchen was gonna be put back a few weeks due to this. Has now kicked off ripped his own kitchen out so no he HAS to have a kitchen put in just the minimal for health and safety so now my partner is back at work again.

Another one, someone I know has a little boy born prematurely... he’s doing amazing and is now 18 months old. His mum is a nurse in a hospital. Was anxious of going to work because her little one still has problems with his chest and has been rushed to hospital many times. So she’s been signed off work due to stress and anxiety which I 100% understand and backed her up on it.
However yesterday she was out all day with him... in various shops visiting family members. I can’t understand that!

 

[JoeBloggs]

Okay am I completely missing something? Why do people think things will begin to open up in a few weeks?! Where are they getting this from?

My husbands just been issued with a letter explaining why he’s travelling as he’s a key worker. To me that screams harder lockdown!

Are we talking about people in the UK going back to school and work in less than a fortnight?

The 3 week review was to see if what we were doing was enough. If we all go back to normal this lockdown would be a complete waste of time and we might as well have just carried on

 

[bubbletea123]

That is awful. They won’t ventilate her if needed? I really hope her symptoms don’t get any worse and she gets better. Let us know xx

Here in Canada, they're considering not ventilating anyone that is 60+. Not old at all

 

[Jerseymiss]

It is wonderful. I am childfree by choice and this situation has confirmed my decision. Even our friends with well behaved kids say they are frazzled, miserable and nostalgic for childless times.

My husband is wfh and gets to do it in peace. I got laid off.

My day
- get up around 7 am
- have a coffee
- exercise for an hour
- shower and have breakfast
- walk the dog
- video call my parents
- eat lunch with husband
- watch something on netflix, read, housework, tattle
- start cooking dinner
- eat with husband
- self care
- bed

Someone said it seems dull and they'd rather have kids but it's perfect for me. I am an introvert and honestly couldn't imagine anything worse than having a kid around 24/7. At least my dog, I can close in a room if he's annoying me and he doesn't talk back or cry

This is like parent porn

 

[WilmaHun]

Where are people getting this from? No where has the government said restrictions will be lifted.

Though I know a lot of window cleaners and gardeners are still working as they cannot do it from home and can practice social distancing so legally there is no issue.

This is what I was going to say, our window cleaner is still working because he has 0 contact with us. Turns up, does his job, puts the receipt through the door and we bank transfer the money over. I can't see any issue personally but maybe I'm too relaxed.

 

[rainbowlemon]

My brother is working at a London hospital, just helping out even though he's still a third year medical student. Today Gordon Ramsey sent lunch for everyone.

The Love cocoa ( from the Cadbury family ) also pledged to match and donate every chocolate bar sold between the weekend of the 21st of march.

Also seen the Shortbread house of Edinburgh donate biscuits too.

 

[Oohthedrama]

@Oohthedrama I’m intrigued to see your response to this

I plead the fifth.....
remember.... I’m just here to post the Irish crap #iWantThatInMyBio

I will however be “washing my hair” anytime there is a group clap, a group hug, a group anything.

but if you’re asking right now

 

[grumpycat]

Found out today that one of the consultants I work with on a regular basis is now covid positive and being ventilated.

It’s all so surreal. I remember back in February in ED when we were testing based on foreign travel and a panicked public and there was an abundance (it seemed) of PPE and complete complacency that of course this patient or that didn’t have Covid (and they didn’t).

And then we got our first covid positive and there was just trepidation in how to approach the patient and manage them. They were stable and manageable but back then just the word was enough to scare us.

And then the first “young” patient in respiratory distress. I remember looking through his lung imaging of bilateral pneumonia with mouth and eyes wide open I’d never seen lungs that looked as bad as that.

Now ‘CQ’ (maybe covid) and ‘CP’ (confirmed covid) are everyday, every hour terms. Could this be Covid? is asked for almost every patient. There’s daily debate over PPE, what type is safe, when it should be worn and a realistic concern it will run out. But our hospital has more free beds than it ever has done. Specialty teams are pulling together like never before. And we can be confident that for now at least patients are getting the best care possible. It’s the calm before the storm.

And then the news a colleague has succumbed. Now I’m just sat here with my fingers crossed for everyone in this horrible situation and hoping with all my might we can get through the coming storm of the next few months. Really reminded of the post I read on social media from an Italian doctor at the start of all this:

Spoiler

Dr Daniele Macchini's post (ICU doctor, Bergamo Italy)


I still remember my night call a week ago when I was waiting for the results of a swab. When I think about it, my anxiety over one possible case seems almost ridiculous and unjustified, now that I've seen what's happening. Well, the situation now is dramatic to say the least.
"The war has literally exploded and battles are uninterrupted day and night. But now that need for beds has arrived in all its drama. One after the other the departments that had been emptied fill up at an impressive pace.
"The boards with the names of the patients, of different colours depending on the operating unit, are now all red and instead of surgery you see the diagnosis, which is always the damned same: bilateral interstitial pneumonia.

Sorry for the long post. Just needed to debrief to an anonymous friend after a bad day.

we’re all here for you. A socially distanced, and internet hug for you.
I can’t comprehend the weight you must feel and the things you must see

please know we are all, so very grateful for the work you have done and will continue to do.
you and your colleagues are amazing heroes. without you we are nothing.
Each day that passes we are closer to the end than the start

 

[EmilyChambers]

Also now using her NHS card to get in supermarkets before everyone else so she doesn’t need to que not even buying food buying toys for the back garden.

That’s just morally all kinds of wrong for me. She’s not at work hasn’t been in work for nearly 6 weeks. That’s for the those that are helping to make a difference not for people to abuse.

It’s really pissed me off to be honest

I've got a friend on Facebook whose pissing me off massively.

She filmed herself in her garden with the clap for carers turning round in a circle and crying saying oh my god, I'm so touched, can't believe this is for little old me and doing hand waves to people you can't see and holding her hand to her chest. She did it Thursday just gone too.

She's using her NHS pass to early shop, daughter still going to school, and she shares videos on how she's a frontline NHS worker and never been more proud.

She's been fucking furloughed as her job is literally filing old files away for mental health cases and retrieving old files when needed yet she thinks she's frontline saving the fucking world

I'm going to start yoga and mindfulness this week, I need it before I'm let out back amongst people like this.

 

[bubbletea123]

I just removed myself from the neighbourhood Facebook group. It has been way too negative recently and annoying me. There is a man who is going grocery shopping for families who are quarantined (nice) but he live-streams it every time and I find that annoying. If I gave food to a homeless person, I wouldn't post it on social media. It seems it is more about the head pats now than the good deed. He is also going to grocery stores every day which I find idiotic as he could be spreading the virus himself. The other day at a grocery store, they wouldn't allow him to buy 15 containers of Lysol cleaner, even though he told them it was for other families. Well, he live-streamed this to the community page and apparently people called the Walmart inc death threats for the manager, WTF. People should be absolutely ashamed of that behaviour and charged for uttering threats. Utter madness. It is all too much and pissing me off so I left, lol.