Type 2 why not self isolate??

Hi, where does it say that, please?

 

All diabetics have been advised to practice strict social distancing not isolation. No difference between T1 and T2.

 

All diabetics are “strongly advised” to follow “stringent social distancing” in the U.K. That’s different to “self isolation” which is complete quarantine/lockdown in your home. We can still go out, buy food, and work (when we can’t work from home or are key workers) - we’re just supposed to keep a 2m distance from other people where possible.

 

We’re having to learn a lot of new jargon, aren’t we? I’ve done a fair bit of explaining the phrases we’re using in the U.K. to people today!

And if only that book was accurate. Sadly the beaches here have been heaving with people

 

I'm not really familiar with type 2 specifics - is it an autoimmune condition or just hereditary?

 

There are a few causes of type 2, type 1 is an autoimmune condition.

 

And just to complicate tings a little more it's not that uncommon for someone first diagnosed with t2 to find they're actually a T1, I'm maybe wrong but I once read Theresa May was at first diagnosed t2.

 

Where is the information about type 1 isolating and type 2 distancing from?

 

There is no distinction between types of diabetics for this we are all classed as the same, anyone that is offered the flue jag under medical advice. I know some people don't take but that makes no difference. Government website.

https://www.gov.uk/government/publi...protecting-older-people-and-vulnerable-adults

Then there is extremely vurernable adults.

https://www.gov.uk/government/publi...ng-extremely-vulnerable-persons-from-covid-19

 

Which in itself should be a red flag since the aetiology and myriad confounding factors that go along with metabolic syndrome means that conflating the two conditions is patently an erroneous oversimplification that renders the advice meaningless for the sake of neatness.

Even with regard to just the actual diabetes there are endless nuances and distinctions which bring about differences in overall morbidity risk. My avatar is watching anyone who thinks that type 1 and type 2 should be lumped together in this.

 

I've no idea but is a diet-controlled T2 at the same risk as an insulin-dependent T1?
Or indeed T1s or T2s who are poorly controlled?

In another direction I posted this on another thread which may be of interest......
Some thoughts and ideas from Dr Malcom Kendrick

 

In English please

 

China did not publish this information for their deaths, so until there have been many more people dying in the west we will not know.

Age is clearly a large factor, and any other risk factors added to, old age increases the risk.

 

I have mislaid my thesaurus

 

Sorry, can't help as I've eaten mine