I am worrying about all the battered wives who are shut up in flats with their violent husbands, people with depression who are living alone, businesses going bust and people running out of money, losing their businesses, homes etc, suicides. Is the cure worse than the disease? I think someone said that earlier. Will all those who have isolated be vulnerable when we all come out of isolation? No immunity.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
A rather worrying statistic for those of us in Scotland which is not a densely populated country - we basically have a tenth of the pop of England. And so one might think our death rate would be lower. However the rate overnight from yesterday is the same percentage as England. That is food for thought...….older population, not as many ICU units, ?
'Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement' - Helen Keller
Hogweed, it will be interesting to see if those who succumb in Scotland, are in the major populated areas such as Glasgow and Edinburgh. It will probably have been circulating in those areas for some time. Transmission is obviously higher in crowded areas such as pubs, clubs, and racecourses. I suspect that those who naturally live more secluded lives will be less likely to meet someone who passes it on. A funeral in Spain led to 70 infected people. Presumably they were all hugging and kissing and in close proximity to each other. Today I read that if you get to the stage where you are hooked up to a ventilator, 66% die. Until we have testing to see how many people had had it, and now have immunity, we can only speculate. The death rate looks awful, but many more people have had it and recovered. If they only test people who get as far as hospital, the death rate is going to look terrible. Stay safe, stay away from other people as far as possible. I am only shopping at quiet times, even though there is less choice, because it is easier to avoid people that way. I am not doing a mid week shopping top up. If we run out of something, we will manage with what we have got.
I think testing will help get a better idea of things I know of 4 young healthy people who have had some or all of the symptoms and recovered fairly quickly, less than a week in total. Described by all as no big deal, unpleasant but not unbearable. Have they had it? We need testing to establish if they are now immune then life can get back to normality for most of us.
’ Immunity certificates for people who have recovered from coronavirus would be “dangerous” and give people a “sense of false security”, a health expert has warned, after health secretary Matt Hancock suggested the documents could allow people to get back to normal life as soon as possible.
Eleanor Riley, a professor of immunology and infectious disease at the University of Edinburgh, said scientists did not know yet if people with antibodies for Covid-19 were immune to the virus.’
Did everyone see the reporter who used a testing kit to show how it's done, only for it to say he had already had it, without symptoms. He was shocked, but did qualify that the kits were yet to be proved accurate.
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’ Immunity certificates for people who have recovered from coronavirus would be “dangerous” and give people a “sense of false security”, a health expert has warned, after health secretary Matt Hancock suggested the documents could allow people to get back to normal life as soon as possible.
Eleanor Riley, a professor of immunology and infectious disease at the University of Edinburgh, said scientists did not know yet if people with antibodies for Covid-19 were immune to the virus.’
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/coronavirus-news-live-update-uk-cases-death-toll-press-conference-nhs-a9444606.html
Maybe he put second class stamps on them ...
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.