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There is too much talk of 'only a few folk will die- more die of flu' on this forum. It needs to cease now.
I am less than 40 years old, have no underlying health conditions and generally consider myself in reasonable nick if the blood test 18 months ago was anyting to go by.
This does not mean any Doctor in the land can guarantee I am at zero risk from corona virus. The same is true of anyone on this forum.
Suppose I did catch it and ended up in respiratory distress. An ambulance is called, I get taken to hospital and put on oxygen. Might not be enough. If you can't breathe for yourself a machine does it for you. There is not an unlimited supply of them.
We must not engage in any activity that creates more cases in short order which will invariably increase the number of cases which do deteriorate into needing intensive care.
Every man Jack of us has a reasonable chance of surviving infection by this thing. What I'm not so confident of are my chances if I desperately require a ventilator and there is not one available- won't be many sides on that dice as far as I can see.
On this forum we have one nutter claiming we are Italy number 2 and they won't be able to bury the bodies fast enough. Another spanner reckons this 'flu' is less worrying than the threat of closing livestock marts and the terrible blow this would have on the pishing beef industry ffs.
There is no way you can justify farm inspections in the circumstances. The idea they should continue is a joke. The risk to the inspector is far greater than the reverse.
What a load of bollox you write Ollie.
Millions of people will lose their jobs/ homes and everything they have if the country is shut down for months on end, I appreciate someone like yourself who hasn't worked in what 1/2 years now wouldn't care about this but millions of people are really worried about their jobs/ businesses etc.
Over 10,0000 people in the UK are infected, has been what 55 deaths of elderly people of which many got it overseas and nearly all off then had very serious underlying health conditions.
NHS is a basket case and long overdue for reform, far too many bone lazy/ incompetent managers/ nurses and consultants working in the NHS that do more damage than good.
If you are so concerned about the NHS Ollie then go and volunteer for them tomorrow, but of course you will have a list of excuse's as long as your arm why you cannot!
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