Coronavirus (COVID-19) Discussion Thread

[Pyro as Bill]

Barozi said:

Pyro as Bill said:

Why? If you have symptoms you should be isolating regardless.

If you're a key worker then obviously knowing whether or not you can continue doing your essential job is important and that's why they had priority testing if they showed symptoms.

Everyone else can chill the fuck out and take the antibody test in 21 days which will give them a more accurate result than the covid test.

My brother just wasted a test because he was offered one and took it because he felt a bit dehydrated. It came back negative.

We need to save them so we have as many as possible available for track n trace.

What's the point of saving tests when you can only process a limited amount? You can save millions of tests for later but when your testing capacity is only (e.g.) 50k a day you will have a huge amount of unused testing kits at the end of the crisis.

Labs are continually increasing capacity and new mega labs are coming online. The target is now 200-250k/day.

Ka-pi96 said:

Pyro as Bill said:

Teenagers and kids are fine. I read that there is only a single confirmed case of someone catching it directly from another person outdoors.It's the vulnerable who need to be protected and make the biggest changes to their way of life. Nobody under 9 has died from Covid in the UK. Two have died from domestic abuse. I think the schools need to open.

5 is under 9...

https://metro.co.uk/2020/04/04/child-five-becomes-uks-youngest-victim-coronavirus-12508801/

Testing positive for CV =/= dying of CV

John2290 said:

Pyro as Bill said:

Have you guys seen any good explanations as to why Northern Ireland is faring better than the Republic even though they locked down later along with the rest of the UK?

Be interesting to know how each country tried to protect the most vulnerable and how successful they were.

The population is much smaller we also hold larger cities, our airports are a hub for Europe, we had rich kids going skiing with their schools early on which seeded us before NI and we've more nursing homes where most of the inital outbreaks occurred as well as populated areas. Our government also fucked up pretty badly and I expect this missed a lot of wild cases by letting people of planes early on who were in contact with a symptomatic passanger but so did Belfast, so, eh. If you want to compare anything in Ireland compare the provinces, NI is the provenve of Ulster and a decent comparison would be with Leinster at least as long as there is no hard border. Also, from my understanding, both our border counties are getting battered with cases bleeding over on both sides and sense noone has the balls to close the border incase it ignites fighting, both the Republic and NI need to be taken as one in terms of the pandemic. It's not as if their is some magical barrier there that stops people from crossing it in their tracks and even if the border were to be closed it's too late now. My thoughts are, the border needs to stay open, no point in bringing back pre 21st century troubles no matter the cost.

209 deaths/M v 258 is still a lot given Ireland locked down 11 days before NI.

I have to admit I chuckled hearing some of the people who were demanding no hard border last year suddenly change their tune.