Lockdown

[MichelleFox]

To be honest I'm going insane lately

Almost all of us...

Go for walk. So nice finally outside. Or do any kind of activity. As still 2months front of us.

I was up the walls. If you get busy and mainly your mind with smth it helps. And get out for walk. Or just sit on sun.

Stay strong ❤️

[SteveB]

Hard to get concise information but this does seem to put it in perspective.

https://www.bbc.com/news/health-52758024

Quote= "For example, an average person aged 40 has around a one-in-1,000 risk of not making it to their next birthday and an almost identical risk of not surviving a coronavirus infection. "Coronavirus is, in effect, taking any frailties and amplifying them. It is like packing an extra year's worth of risk into a short period of time.If your risk of dying was very low in the first place, it still remains very low."

[Dub Lad]

Hard to get concise information but this does seem to put it in perspective.

https://www.bbc.com/news/health-52758024

Quote= "For example, an average person aged 40 has around a one-in-1,000 risk of not making it to their next birthday and an almost identical risk of not surviving a coronavirus infection. "Coronavirus is, in effect, taking any frailties and amplifying them. It is like packing an extra year's worth of risk into a short period of time.If your risk of dying was very low in the first place, it still remains very low."

but if you over load the healthcare system, wouldn't the risk be even greater, not enough beds, mortality rate shoots up? we have just 441 ICU beds as of april 20th

[SteveB]

but if you over load the healthcare system, wouldn't the risk be even greater, not enough beds, mortality rate shoots up? we have just 441 ICU beds as of april 20th

That is the problem. Individual risk is negligible for most people but if you get the virus and you spread it, the people you spread it to pass it on, and so on the low percentage (but significant actual numbers) may be enough to overload the health system. Even countries with robust health systems are getting it tough.

[Janko]

That is the problem. Individual risk is negligible for most people but if you get the virus and you spread it, the people you spread it to pass it on, and so on the low percentage (but significant actual numbers) may be enough to overload the health system. Even countries with robust health systems are getting it tough.

you say that only because you continued to punt through the pandemic steveb but the truth is its not negligible for most people, people were spreading it and who did not know they had it, reason it got so bad because action was not taken sooner, its a catastrophic really

[Heisenberg30]

No deaths today, light at the end of the tunnel👍

[Meursault]

Will be interesting to see what they do with regards the schools and colleges. Pubs as well.

[Heisenberg30]

Will be interesting to see what they do with regards the schools and colleges. Pubs as well.

All that depends on when they change the 2m distance to 1m, you can’t have a class of 32 kids 2m’s apart unless you plan to teach them outside, same with pubs, wee rural pubs can’t deal with these regulations, the cure is nearly worse than the disease now, time to adapt the plan.
The government should be listening to all advice, it’s their job to make a balanced decision, the health depts main aim is to protect the health service from reaching capacity, which is fair enough but not at the expense of the rest of the economy. It’s possible to be cautious and progressive at the same time, we need strategists now not tacticians

[Floki]

All that depends on when they change the 2m distance to 1m, you can’t have a class of 32 kids 2m’s apart unless you plan to teach them outside, same with pubs, wee rural pubs can’t deal with these regulations, the cure is nearly worse than the disease now, time to adapt the plan.
The government should be listening to all advice, it’s their job to make a balanced decision, the health depts main aim is to protect the health service from reaching capacity, which is fair enough but not at the expense of the rest of the economy. It’s possible to be cautious and progressive at the same time, we need strategists now not tacticians

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/educ...-a4437336.html

Government says parents will not be fined for refusing to send children back to school during coronavirus pandemic

But of course, if the parents have to work, then it will be a tough decision to make.

[jessicabp]

In Hungary the smaller kids went back in classes already ,
max 5 kids can stay in a class.