I looked on the map and one person has died in the area I live in and around.thousands of people live here.one has died which off course is a tragedy.but are we to stay indoors forever terrified? Rural areas seem to be less affected than cities and towns.no one around here dare go out.if we dont get the country moving soon there wont be one.i dont know what the answer is.im totally bewildered.
The Bank of England is very hopeful for a rise next year, the country recovered in 1930,1983,2008, you can recover from a recession, you cant recover from death
So can someone please explain why such a contagious virus has failed to infect me or any of my workmates or any of our families or friends? I accept it’s serious to vulnerable people but it doesn’t appear to be very contagious? I don’t want to argue with people but those are the facts, I don’t know anyone who knows anyone who has died of Covid and I know lots of people. The Nightingale hospitals are closing having hardly been used. What does that mean?
Do you want to take this question @punkdoc? I am too annoyed.
So can someone please explain why such a contagious virus has failed to infect me or any of my workmates or any of our families or friends? I accept it’s serious to vulnerable people but it doesn’t appear to be very contagious?
Perhaps the reason is that the lockdown has been effective?
Before lockdown the infection rate, RO was about 4. Without lockdown the number of deaths per day would have been far more that it actually is now, quadrupling every infection cycle. A month ago it was about 1000 per day. try quadrupling that every few days and see where that gets you. Then multiply by 100 for the people who recover.
Although not necessarily in your direct area.....you can google how many people have died or had Covid in the county. Some main towns are mentioned too. In our county there are 1,224 confirmed cases and 284 deaths
So can someone please explain why such a contagious virus has failed to infect me or any of my workmates or any of our families or friends? I accept it’s serious to vulnerable people but it doesn’t appear to be very contagious? I don’t want to argue with people but those are the facts, I don’t know anyone who knows anyone who has died of Covid and I know lots of people. The Nightingale hospitals are closing having hardly been used. What does that mean?
A. You can be asymptomatic, carrying it around but never knowing you’ve been infected.
B. Maybe not every single person you know tells you all their business. Only a small percentage of the people who know me know that I self isolated with symptoms at the beginning of April
C. Lockdown worked, it’s reduced the rate of transmission significantly
D. It’s a big conspiracy, there is no virus and for some reason that none of us can understand all the governments of the world are conspiring to ruin the global economy
One of these is definitely not true, prizes for the first poster to guess which!
Debs64, During my 40 years in Pharmacy, it seemed that all new staff, myself included got a lot of minor bugs the first year or so, then we all seemed to become more or less immune. During the swine flu, my young assistant got it and was off for weeks even with Tamiflu, I got a bit of a sniffle. I have had proper flu twice in 40 years, both times felled me, but other than that I seemed to have become immune from all the minor bugs that people cough and sneeze all over. I have never had the flu jab. Having watched the figures unfolding in China through January and February, I started slowly stocking up, quite prepared to go into lockdown even if the government didn't impose one. When the fights over toilet rolls started I stayed in. I do not believe the figures that were coming out of China, I believe they were far worse from the moment they admitted there was a problem. I think I have said, I have a friend who is a radiographer, thankfully still safe, but her daughter, a dentist, had it bad but has recovered. My husband, two brothers in law, a cousins husband, a sister in law, my mother and her sister are all classed as vulnerable and stay in. I practise safe shopping once a week.
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Before lockdown the infection rate, RO was about 4. Without lockdown the number of deaths per day would have been far more that it actually is now, quadrupling every infection cycle. A month ago it was about 1000 per day. try quadrupling that every few days and see where that gets you. Then multiply by 100 for the people who recover.
Still feel the virus is not a serious problem?
In our county there are 1,224 confirmed cases and 284 deaths
Time to leave this thread again.
Stay safe.
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
B. Maybe not every single person you know tells you all their business. Only a small percentage of the people who know me know that I self isolated with symptoms at the beginning of April
C. Lockdown worked, it’s reduced the rate of transmission significantly
D. It’s a big conspiracy, there is no virus and for some reason that none of us can understand all the governments of the world are conspiring to ruin the global economy
One of these is definitely not true, prizes for the first poster to guess which!