Bradders - I think my colleague in the office next door who has had pneumonia twice in the last year (and still had a hacking cough), my PHD student with immune deficiency staying away is very sensible behaviour. Not a snowflake. Whatever that horrible term means.
Yes there are some very disturbing threads kicking around on Twitter that paint quite a different picture to how the virus has been reported elsewhere. Obviously fingers crossed the UK doesn't end up in that boat...
You made it sound like people are being given complete license to stop coming to work just because they're nervous about the situation, as opposed to genuinely vulnerable people having a sensible discussion with their line management and deciding on appropriate precautions; which is a very different thing.
Mine will be hanging on to office based staff until the government forces their hand at gunpoint...
I'm simply gobsmacked some here are still saying most of us will be OK,
And are we really getting our news from Twitter now?!
Quote from: BraddersAnd are we really getting our news from Twitter now?!Seriously? I've been getting all my news from Twitter for years now, and so it seems do most of the world's top journalists. Are you confusing it with Facebook or something?
Quote from: Johnny Brown on March 11, 2020, 10:14:41 amQuote from: BraddersAnd are we really getting our news from Twitter now?!Seriously? I've been getting all my news from Twitter for years now, and so it seems do most of the world's top journalists. Are you confusing it with Facebook or something?Plus the person posting is a doctor from a hospitial on the verge of collapse under the pressure.In answer to Ru's qustion I'm gobsmacked people seem to be missing the real problems. I'm little concerned with those who will be OK, I'm very concerned with what looks now like hundreds or thousands in the UK and tens if not hundreds of thousands elsewhere who will not, and how health systems will cope (like the NHS, if we follow the pattern and face the same issues as Italy in 2 weeks) . Imagine the impact of no functionall secondary health system (hospitals) on everything else, let alone on the 'too many' serious coronavirus victims. People need to take this very seriously without panic and try to do all they can to stop infection spreading.
Agreed. It's pretty certain that all elective and non-emergency hospital appointments are going to be cancelled for an untold period when this shit gets really bad.
Why would people stop getting normal flu?