Coronavirus Type 1 Diabetic

[atoll]

Some people can't afford not to work.

hopefully your government has a plan for you,expect major changes from monday onwards.

 

[grovesy]

hopefully your government has a plan for you,expect major changes from monday onwards.

I do not work, so it does not affect me. I was speaking about many cant . Unfortunately our government have not got a good track record on this type of thing.

 

[atoll]

I do not work, so it does not affect me. I was speaking about many cant . Unfortunately our government have not got a good track record on this type of thing.

we have an army that can step in ,although the governments plan will no doubt rely on a high degree of public cooperation.
meanwhile stockmarkets are not looking good,but the leader of the free world has suggested that a miracle might happen.

in the short term getting some extra provisions in would be my advice,those MRE meals that have been in storage since the cold war that the army might be handing out,will keep people alive ,but hardly jamie oliver.

 

[grovesy]

Thanks for the advice but I have not got a clue what MRE meals are. I doubt we have enough troops to go around to cover everything people wish them to do.

 

[Stitch147]

I dont think i like the thought of an aeroplane with this 'flying' around at the mo - pun intended 😉 ...... My friend is due to go an a cruise in May!! (her first, ooops) she has been sent an email saying checks will be carried out each time they embark i.e. at every stop on the tour - can you imagine if you get carted off because they 'suspect' something is awry. Rather her than me! Good luck with that one !

I'm due to fly to the Canary Islands on Thursday and I'm not worried at all.

 

[atoll]

Thanks for the advice but I have not got a clue what MRE meals are. I doubt we have enough troops to go around to cover everything people wish them to do.

MRE= meals ready to eat, this is what the armed forces eat whilst on exercises or in combat.

somewhere in underground bunkers in strategic locations around the uk there are depots of supplies,biochem,medical,nuclear decontamination kits etc,along with enough of these MRE to keep the whole country going for a few months in the event of a pandemic or nuclear/bio attack.

 

[Maz2]

I'm due to fly to the Canary Islands on Thursday and I'm not worried at all.

Glad to hear that Stitch. I am getting extremely fed up with the media going on and on and on the whole time about a new case here and new case there. They are causing problems frightening everybody.

My husband works in the public sector and their CEO is having constant updates from PHE. The media keep on about 19 cases (yesterday 28.2.2020) but 11 of those have fully recovered. That leaves 8 which is 8 too many,of course. The media don't bother to tell you about those who have fully recovered or had mild symptoms or none at all. They just keep on about those who die.

My apologies for the rant. I appreciate not everyone will agree but I am sick and tired on the British media in general, not just over this.

I have faith in the Government to do the best they can with this. Hope it goes away soon.

My friend is due to go to Tenerife on 22nd March and Foreign Office is saying it is OK to go so I said to her it is best to do what they say. They are advising at present not to go to Northern Italy where they have the towns and villages in lockdown.

 

[atoll]

I'm due to fly to the Canary Islands on Thursday and I'm not worried at all.

have a nice time,and be sure to purchase some travel insurance,the canary islands still accepts the EHIC card until october,but you may have to pay up front for any treatment if you don't have private insurance.

private insurance should also cover you for about 2 million if you need medical evacuation or flight and hotel cancellation.
be prepared to self isolate if asked to by authorities on your return, should you find yourself in one of the daily growing number of covid clusters in europe.

take enough meds to cover your holiday and enough for a period of quarantine,just in case!
probably also a good idea also to have some spare water and food in your room from when you arrive in case of hotel lock down .

 

[Maz2]

Always have insurance as the European card not enough. I have always had both

 

[GJG99]

It's difficult to know which way to jump on this, as a type 1 over 60 I cant deny I am worried, I do find the news alarmist. It seems to me the Chinese way of strangling the spread works (if you believe the figures) but that wouldn't work here. I wish we could get more information on the progress of a vaccine, I keep reading different data.

 

[AndBreathe]

I thought this was a very interesting article in today's Spectator

Coronavirus and the cycle of panic | The Spectator

It is the latest phenomenon to fulfil our weird and growing appetite for doom

www.spectator.co.uk

 

[Eddy Edson]

I thought this was a very interesting article in today's Spectator

Coronavirus and the cycle of panic | The Spectator

It is the latest phenomenon to fulfil our weird and growing appetite for doom

www.spectator.co.uk

He's just a journalist, so you can't expect much, but what he doesn't seem to know is how fast this thing can spread if it's not controlled.

Eg: Reported cases increased more than 8-fold just over February in Hubei. Of course there was no doubt some catch-up with identifying previously infected people included in that, but nevertheless the WHO calls it "astonishingly" fast.

It's an exponential curve, and you could easily have a several hundred fold increase in just a few months if it weren't controlled.

Suggesting that it's just a beat-up and that if we just ignored it we wouldn't notice anything more than normal winter ailments etc etc is Trump-level cluelessness.

 

[Stitch147]

have a nice time,and be sure to purchase some travel insurance,the canary islands still accepts the EHIC card until october,but you may have to pay up front for any treatment if you don't have private insurance.

private insurance should also cover you for about 2 million if you need medical evacuation or flight and hotel cancellation.
be prepared to self isolate if asked to by authorities on your return, should you find yourself in one of the daily growing number of covid clusters in europe.

take enough meds to cover your holiday and enough for a period of quarantine,just in case!
probably also a good idea also to have some spare water and food in your room from when you arrive in case of hotel lock down .

I have travel insurance, always do. Taking enough meds for a month (I'm there for 10 days) I always do. Won't be stock piling water or food, no need too.

 

[atoll]

I have travel insurance, always do. Taking enough meds for a month (I'm there for 10 days) I always do. Won't be stock piling water or food, no need too.

I was not suggesting stockpiling,just have enough on hand to get you through 24-48 hrs should you suddenly be confined to your room.

 

[Felinia]

I have cancelled my holiday in April. I understand that as a 69 year old diabetic with compromised immune system and multiple other medical issues, I am considered high risk. The BBC travel expert Simon Calder says the greatest danger is actually the airport terminals, then the planes and finally the destination (excluding those already notified about). On my last 2 plane trips I picked up viruses which each wiped me out for a month. I thought long and hard about it, but I'm not prepared to risk it. Had I not done so this week, I would have lost virtually all my money. As it is I've lost almost £1000.

 

[atoll]

I thought this was a very interesting article in today's Spectator

Coronavirus and the cycle of panic | The Spectator

It is the latest phenomenon to fulfil our weird and growing appetite for doom

www.spectator.co.uk

had china not put 5% of the worlds population in isolation,and is still using extremely stringent disease control measures.
i feel that he would be writing a completley different type of article , possibly questioning the governments ability to cope with all the bodies piling up outside A+E from a new and deadly type of pneumonia that our scientists are very worried about.

lets hope the journalist is right,and it is just a fad and the WHO have got it wrong.

 

[grovesy]

had china not put 5% of the worlds population in isolation,and is still using extremely stringent disease control measures.
i feel that he would be writing a completley different type of article , possibly questioning the governments ability to cope with all the bodies piling up outside A+E from a new and deadly type of pneumonia that our scientists are very worried about.

lets hope the journalist is right,and it is just a fad and the WHO have got it wrong.

Well the pictures I have seen of the beds in the Chinese hospitals, are very close.

 

[atoll]

Well the pictures I have seen of the beds in the Chinese hospitals, are very close.

That is what happens when the whole ward /area / floor/ hospital /stadium becomes a quarantine zone for those already infected.
Remember for every 100 infected you need aprox 20 hospital beds if you want to keep the CFR low.
Being able to scale up response and resources very quickly if numbers double exponentially every 24hrs will have a direct impact on CFR.

 

[Maz2]

I thought this was a very interesting article in today's Spectator

Coronavirus and the cycle of panic | The Spectator

It is the latest phenomenon to fulfil our weird and growing appetite for doom

www.spectator.co.uk

Inclined to agree with him. If every case of seasonal flu was reported no-one would go anywhere as it is very frightening. Seasonal flu kills a lot of people but the media don't tell you which is a good thing I suppose. They don't appear to be bothering telling you about the people who are recovering which is most of them. However, I suppose if they did not it would not upset everybody would it.

I am not denying it is a serious illness but so is seasonal flu and also the common cold can be in very vulnerable people depending on the strain and how badly it affects you.

 

[Maz2]

I am taking Foreign Office advice and if they say it is OK to go somewhere I will; if they say it is not then I won't.

Cunard emailed us to say they have cancelled all the cruises to the Far East for Spring and are taking them to Australia and New Zealand instead. That seems sensible at the present time to me.