7.30pm, BBC1, questions regarding the virus, Everything you should know ............
Ironically, China will now impose quarantine on visitors from the following countries...
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All good ideas but there needs to be a balance or people's lives could be seriously disrupted for no reason. Planning is something that can be done in advance but there needs to be a real threat before taking action. If cities had been shut down for SARS, MERS or even every year's new strain of flu, then a real threat wouldn't be taken seriously. For a sense of proportion remember that Tuberculosis is a global pandemic, killing someone approximately every 21 seconds — about 1.5 million in 2018 alone.My thots as an armchair critic...
Track, screen, and quarantine the international inbound passengers that left Wuhan/Hubei/China before the lockdown.
Suspend large social/public gatherings. Encourage social distancing. Stay home if having flu symptoms.
Prep the frontline healthcare providers for infectious disease control.
Limits public visitations at hospitals wards/nursing homes etc where the vulnerable are.
Setup separate consultation area/hotline etc.
Ramp up test kits, test all hospitalized pneumonia/respiratory cases first, then distribute to the frontline primary care provider to improve detection at the community level to enable isolation.
And people should prep up food/essentials for two-four weeks to be ready for extended home quarantine.
If testing is not done at the community level, the spread would be too large to contain by the time it is finally detected...and resources will be quickly overwhelmed.
For some cities in South Korea, Italy, Iran, containment is likely no longer viable...and just over two weeks ago, they were not even on the radar...how many more cities will be caught in such a difficult situation?
Airing on.the side of caution as I am. Better to be safe.....Hopefully at some stage, sooner rather than later, it will burn it's self out.
Tbh, I am not stocked up, but my daughter is getting a little worried, so tomorrow, I will need to get more food in and other provisions, just in case..................... hypo treatments and some gluten free too.
Stay safe
I was in a cafe yesterday writing to my auntie, needed the loo. Washed hands as instructed. Then thought 'now have to touch handle to exit!'. So new plan. Open door first, wash hands, exit.most informative @Bill_St
and that above about the hand to face contact, , does makes you think when you consciously focus on that,
just how surfaces, we currently take for granted, MIGHT be touched by us on our travels...now would seem a good time to review and make a few little adjustment to our old habits i think.
We live 80 miles north of Seattle, Washington. Our country's president, in his efforts to "drain the swamp", set the stage for the problems we're having in the US by not taking this threat seriously initially and moving quickly. He's taking action now, but it's going to take time to get everything needed into place.
This is the insanity we're coping with in the US...
"Seeking to undo everything that his predecessor had done, Trump dismantled the epidemic-fighting infrastructure the Obama administration had built up at the National Security Council and the Department of Homeland Security. One of John Bolton’s first acts upon becoming national security adviser in 2018 was to dismiss the NSC’s global health team led by Rear Adm. Timothy Ziemer, a widely respected public-health expert." https://www.washingtonpost.com/opin...-response-shows-costs-having-chaos-president/
So we're running to catch up with meeting the needs out there.
Here's where we are now in Washington state - (the state and local governments here moved into action quickly and are doing an excellent job)...
https://q13fox.com/2020/03/02/king-county-reports-14-confirmed-coronavirus-cases-including-5-deaths/
It's scary. So long as this virus doesn't mutate, I think we're going to be okay.
My husband and I are following the news reports daily and are gearing up for sheltering in place if we need to. One of our son's is a firefighter just north of Seattle, and one of our grandchildren has asthma, so we're worried about him too. And the two times I've had the flu in recent years, I've almost been hospitalized due to "shortness of breath" issues - (I have reduced lung capacity) - but was determined not to and didn't. Luckily, I turned the corner quickly.
As luck would have it, I developed a mild sore throat early Sunday morning. It's not getting worse, or better. It's weird. Usually, when I get a throat infection, I'm absolutely miserable for three to four days, but not this time. Could be the coronavirus but I'll never know because those who are mildly ill are advised to stay home and not seek medical attention, which makes sense.
That said, my plan is to stay home for a week, longer if the symptoms don't completely remit, to insure there is no possibility of infecting anyone else. But it just feels weird sitting around the house doing nothing when I feel fine, other than having mild symptoms. I'm throwing down shot glasses of vitamin C dissolved in water throughout the day, and my husband is treating me with red light therapy, once in the morning, and once in the evening. Perhaps that's helping. Who knows. My husband is such a geek, and I love him for it.
same here last night @DebandezI was in a cafe yesterday writing to my auntie, needed the loo. Washed hands as instructed. Then thought 'now have to touch handle to exit!'. So new plan. Open door first, wash hands, exit.
same here last night @Debandez
out with daughter and nephew in the pub chewing the fat over this, as ya do.
nephew in loo, comes back says he washed hand to the national anthem..(did not know that )
as instructed..THEN had to open door..Doh.and then like you back in, and redid with door open, with foot..
Those are thing we need to look at , simple methods to help keep us all safe
a hand sanitiser gel dispenser in the bar area somewhere, would doubles up and keep everyone able to be as safe as possible.
Doing nothing is NOT an option. imo.
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Most of these ways of keeping us safe were part and parcel of life for those of us unlucky enough to be going through chemotherapy treatment. This lowers immunity considerably. I bulk bought hand sanitisers, which were dotted about the house including one in the porch for all visitors to use as a condition of entering. I had smaller bottles of it in my handbag for use when out and about, and still do this today. Door handles, light switches and taps were regularly wiped with antibacterial wipes.
Years ago we used to visit Egypt quite a bit. We were told that the paper bank notes were deadly and to wash our hands in alcohol of some sort after touching any bank note to reduce the risk of Pharaohs Revenge . This is something that is now being advised by the Government whenever we handle money.
Interesting times ... I would not want to be working for an intenational airline.
Circuit breaker required ... fast. Imagine what the Spanish flu might have done in these days.
I don't want to sound stupid but could you buy the dust masks to give you a bit of protection at least ?Unfortunately I'm at high risk because of a lung condition. The most annoying part for me is that it's seemingly impossible to buy masks in the expected outlets like pharmacies, at least in my area. All are out and have no idea when they'll be able to source more. Between the bushfires and now this virus, it's making life pretty scary. Would be nice if they'd kept some in reserve for people with conditions that depend on lung protection[/ whinge]
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