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I'm continuing on as normal. Life goes on and apart from more regular hand washing and using sanitizer I'm doing nothing different. We're for Orlando in June and we're going unless Virgin cancels. I'm 48 and would be considered higher risk due to health but sure I could get this thing at my local supermarket or off a work colleague so no point in worrying.
 
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At the moment it is the panic buying that is causing more problems than the virus itself

For those that are buying up all the toilet rolls...please be aware Coronavirus attacks the respiratory system. Not the bowels!
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Go down to Tesco, fill your trolley with dog food and walk around the aisles with it for half an hour. I guarantee that most people that own a dog that see you will then buy as much dogfood as they can carry as they think you know something they don't. People are like sheep.
 
Dave said:
You are either trolling or you have some deeper seated anxiety issues that may benefit from some professional help.

If it’s the former stop it, if it’s the latter then please make sure you seek some.
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No need to be patronising. I honestly do think by the time Alton opens we will be past 1000 cases and I do think we are past the containment phase.
 
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GaryH said:
No need to be patronising. I honestly do think by the time Alton opens we will be past 1000 cases, or we not allowed to say that?
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There are more cases of flu.

Upwards of 13000 people die of flu each day.

Do you also constantly panic about flu?
 
250-300 people on average in UK die every week from alcohol related issues. Quick everyone shut down the pubs shops and bars. It's getting out of control.
 
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You're more likely to die from losing your job and taking your own life from the resultant stress/depression. Concentrate on the things that matter/you can control.

I personally find there to be an ironic link between the biggest voices in the 'Health & Safety Gone Mad' brigade and those most lapping up the hysteria of this virus.
 
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I come to the thread with two new updates. There's good news and there's bad news.

Let's start with the good news; according to worldometers.info, which I did put a link to earlier, 18 people have now recovered from coronavirus in the UK. This is a definite increase on the figure of 8-12 that's been reported in the media over the last couple of days.

Now for the bad news; we have our second coronavirus death in the UK. As with the first one, however, they satisfied many of the risk factors; it was apparently a man in his late 80s with underlying health conditions. My condolences go out to his family.

EDIT: Here's the website I was referring to earlier: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/
 
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Ok to be clear here I'm not worried about it myself in terms of me catching it, I'm not actually that bothered about catching it. What will be will be and I should be able to fight it off.

However, this attitude of i"only affects the old or people with existing health problems" is what worries me. My parents fit in to the old category. My lovely partner fits in to the existing health problems category. It saddens me that people seem to think it's ok because they will be fine and sod the rest of the country, after all, I'm sure if we total up those over 60 and those with existing health concerns we may be taking almost half the country.

As for people who still compare this to flu, let's just say this, if governments around the world thought the same, they wouldn't be taking the extreme measures they are taking to try and contain this. They all know if this spreads at the rate it is doing, then the fatalities will be significantly higher than flu given time.

And no I don't worry about flu personally, it only kills 0.2% of the people who get it, it doesn't land 20% of people it infects in ICU and it doesn't take nearly 6-7 weeks to get over. And hey, if I was worried about it, I'd get the flu vaccine.

I don't know why people keep banging on about China either. China built a 1000 bed hospital in 10 days, and converted lesuire centres into hospitals in weeks. They shut down the ENTIRE country, shut down all transport, welded people inside their homes, left many to die there, even had drones with AI scanning the streets to identify and arrest anyone out not wearing a face mask. If you recall, it was the law to wear a face mask in public.

Parts of China are still shut down even now, so I don't think we can compare our outbreaks in the west to that of China. I'm sure if we took the same measures as China then we too would see a rapid decline in cases.

Anyway, I know this will get much much worse, I know many more will die and will see a lot of suffering in this country and others, but hey, as long and it's not affecting the young ones, or the perfectly healthy ones, then who cares right.

Personally I don't think the victim of this virus is the panic, or the false information, I actually think it's the lack of compassion in people towards those who are most at risk of dying from this and the anger and violence being shown towards those who are from Asian countries, such as the 3 attacks that took place in Exeter only yesterday on Asian students.
 
My god, panic buying has started in my town. A mate of mine who works in retail was told he could not stick the following on the toilet roll shelves.
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People who are old and sick are prone to die in numerous ways not just by this virus. Hate to break the news to you but most of us will get old. We all get sick from time to time and we are all going to die from something eventually.

This isn't something we should casually ignore but the way you're banging on Gary is like it's 28 days later territory. You only make things worse by over dramatising everything.
 
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My god, panic buying has started in my town. A mate of mine who works in retail said he was told he could not stick the following on the toilet roll shelves.
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Yep here too. Did my usual Friday shop tonight and it was like at Christmas. There was no toilet paper or soap.

People really are idiots. Calm the hell down. There's enough for everybody as long as you're not a selfish bar steward.
 
The supermarket I work at has no toilet roll or hand sanitizer left to sell. Regarding the former, do people honestly think coronavirus will give them the runs for three months or something?
 
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Again, there were underlying health conditions. Live UK fatality rate without such underlying conditions remains zero.
 
The BBC's coverage has been appallingly bad at times. By its standards that is, I expect the hysteria from everyone else.
 
Recently I have seen meme posters to remind people to wash their hands including Gordon Ramsay yelling "ALWAYS WASH YOUR HANDS" and Yoda "Wash hands you must, getting sick we don't have time for"
 
Omg Gary with the "the sad part of this is the lack of compassion" argument.

You're a Tory voter ffs. You reep what you sow.
 
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