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1 hour ago, Rompho Ray said:

So they don't see a doctor until they get to the hospital, at which point I assume they get tested.  Not sure how this means that everyone in hospital is COVID+, but I'm not inclined to argue with you mate   Other people maybe.  🙂 

Every practice now has an online message advising to only make an appointment with a doctor for anything but symptoms of covid 19. In fact I am now unable to make an appointment online to prevent me turning up with a covid related issue.

I must call ahead to the doctor surgery for unrelated covid 19 issues and call 111 if I have any symptoms that could point to covid 19. If the 111 service suspect you have covid 19 or similar symptoms you will be asked to self isolate and call 999 only if an emergency situation arises.

All non essential appointments and procedures in hospitals have been cancelled, pharmacists are still open to allow prescriptions to be collected.

I read that visits to A and E departments were down by over 40 percent presently. Those that do require hospitalization will add to the total beds taken up but the amount of covid 19 patients is growing such that new hospitals and front line staff has also grown.

Not an ideal situation but everything is done to assist the NHS in their herculean task of taking care of all patients.

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1 minute ago, Horizondave said:

Every practice now has an online message advising to only make an appointment with a doctor for anything but symptoms of covid 19.

Symptoms of, not positive tests for.  Lots of things look like COVID, at least partially because COVID has a fairly broad set of symptoms that most people only get a subset of.  This doesn't contradict anything I've posted mate, with the greatest of respect.

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2 minutes ago, Rompho Ray said:

Symptoms of, not positive tests for.  Lots of things look like COVID, at least partially because COVID has a fairly broad set of symptoms that most people only get a subset of.  This doesn't contradict anything I've posted mate, with the greatest of respect.

Not disagreeing with you Ray, just telling you the state of affairs. 

Kataleya had a urinary infection characterized by pain when she peed yet calling 111 on a Sunday night led them to assume she had covid 19 and to stay home from school and Porn and I to self isolate. 

Due to the fact Kataleya was stressed (and a 5 year old) Porn took her to A and E where she was found to have, what I suspected, was a urinary infection.

We are not testing people here, only frontline staff are getting that done or those in patients suspected of covid 19 or those with money to self test

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26 minutes ago, Homor said:

Over 10600 dead in uk now but only 3339 dead in China . Wtf is going on with these numbers? Is this virus getting stronger or is there someone telling lies ?? 

 

24 minutes ago, Rompho Ray said:

The Chinese are lying, and western countries are inflating the numbers by counting everyone who dies WITH the virus as having died OF the virus.  That is, if you turn up at a hospital with terminal cancer and a bullet in your head, and you test positive for the virus before or after death, they count you as a COVID death.

But Ray, he gave the UK figures, that's what he asked about, which you know, so you answering and giving what the US is doing is irrelevant to what he said/asked.

Also, I take daily  medication for high pressure and high cholesterol, so would be classed as having underlying health issues. If I get covid and die from it, then I die from covid, whether complications from my other conditions or not. I wouldn't have died if I hadn't caught covid. Well, I would have died some time, as we all will, i'm sure you understand what i'm saying.

If someone has terminal cancer and dies in a car crash, then they died of a car crash. 

 

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1 minute ago, Horizondave said:

We are not testing people here, only frontline staff are getting that done or those in patients suspected of covid 19 or those with money to self test

Sorry to hear about the baby.

With all due respect, I still don't see how any of this contradicts anything I've posted.  The process is slightly different than I suggested, but it doesn't change the ~85% negative testing rate.

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Just now, Krapow said:

I take it I missed something when I was typing out that large post, dham!

Yes you did, he posted that he was angry that his posts were getting deleted, I assume they were US related,

He said he was out of here.

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1 hour ago, alias said:

Firearms are a Constitutional right as well, but ya still have to have ID to buy one.

Good point. I did not know that. I've only read about the US voter ID debate.

Regarding the original post that I commented about -- concerning Americans in the future possibly having to prove their COVID-19 status (positive or negative) -- via a mobile phone app, a micro chip on their ID, or spot checks. From what I've read (e.g., Bill Gates & epidemiologists) testing and tracking is the best way to move forward with fighting the virus until a vaccine is implemented.

There should not be a problem for Americans as they are already used to it for guns and voting?

 

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10 minutes ago, lazarus said:

Good point. I did not know that. I've only read about the US voter ID debate.

Regarding the original post that I commented about -- concerning Americans in the future possibly having to prove their COVID-19 status (positive or negative) -- via a mobile phone app, a micro chip on their ID, or spot checks. From what I've read (e.g., Bill Gates & epidemiologists) testing and tracking is the best way to move forward with fighting the virus until a vaccine is implemented.

There should not be a problem for Americans as they are already used to it for guns and voting?

 

LOL, if that becomes a "thing" people here are gonna FREAK OUT because "muh freedumbs"

 

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10 minutes ago, Starshine said:

O NO...this has turned into an American political thread🤨

Did I miss something?
This thread is entitled...
"COVID 19 GLOBAL (non Thailand) Posts"

Why is posting about the US considered political in the context of the virus?

They are getting hit the worst.

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"There are now more than over 13,000 confirmed cases of coronavirus across the continent, with a number of African countries imposing a range of prevention and containment measures against the spread of the pandemic.
https://www.africanews.com/2020/04/12/coronavirus-in-africa-breakdown-of-infected-virus-free-countries/

"South Africa Reports First COVID-19 Deaths, Goes Into 3-Week Lockdown"

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6 minutes ago, lazarus said:

Did I miss something?
This thread is entitled...
"COVID 19 GLOBAL (non Thailand) Posts"

Why is posting about the US considered political in the context of the virus?

They are getting hit the worst.

In reality just about everything seems to boil down to some sort of political point of view.

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1 minute ago, lazarus said:

 

"There are now more than over 13,000 confirmed cases of coronavirus across the continent, with a number of African countries imposing a range of prevention and containment measures against the spread of the pandemic.
https://www.africanews.com/2020/04/12/coronavirus-in-africa-breakdown-of-infected-virus-free-countries/

"South Africa Reports First COVID-19 Deaths, Goes Into 3-Week Lockdown"

Seen them trying to enforce it in the Joburg townships, no chance. Then again, maybe 5 or 6 to a room, they're like, what's the point!

Surprised it hasn't really took hold in Africa yet, will be utterly devastating if it does.

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1 minute ago, thumper63 said:

In reality just about everything seems to boil down to some sort of political point of view.

Agreed, though this forum was doing quite well in keeping it to the 'Political Section' until this Covid started. 

It's a forum destroyer, and the less it's on this forum except in the said section, the better IMO!

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