Coronavirus - Is this the killer flu that will wipe us out?

[magpie215]

Crumpet said:

Anyone started ‘prepping’?

[nigelpugh7]

simonpieman said:

Why would the PE teachers come into school with a fever, just back from Italy. Haven’t they been reading the news?

We have no idea, but it seems ill adviced doesn’t it.
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The new self isolation advice came from public health England .

To us it seems a little too late with advice.

[Gregmitchell]

magpie215 said:

Crumpet said:

Anyone started ‘prepping’?

haha yeah I've got tonnes of bog roll too!!

[nigelpugh7]

Also as a frame of reference re potential risks.

Tomorrow we were due to attend a workshop in Pershore for drone related Agri tech.

It’s been cancelled because the presenters have a fever and have been quarantineed.

[m3jappa]

nigelpugh7 said:

We have no idea, but it seems ill adviced doesn’t it.
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The new self isolation advice came from public health England .

To us it seems a little too late with advice.

Is the advice for family members to isolate as well? Surely if relatives have contracted it then picking them up in the car at the airport gives possibility for family etc to get it?

[nigelpugh7]

We also had a start up funding show in Luxembourg for the 1st and 2nd of April.

It’s been cancelled due to virus fears.

[nigelpugh7]

And today we have had another trade show on the 4th of March cancelling to due to presenters with fevers being forced into quarantine!

[Gregmitchell]

Hmmm we've got Security & Policing next week.... wonder if it will be canned...

https://www.securityandpolicing.co.uk/

[nigelpugh7]

And finally, one of our team of mentors and coaches was due to fly at the weekend to do a tour of Japan.

The whole trip has now been cancelled due to cornonaviris related fears.

[CustardOnChips]

nigelpugh7 said:

simonpieman said:

Why would the PE teachers come into school with a fever, just back from Italy. Haven’t they been reading the news?

We have no idea, but it seems ill adviced doesn’t it.
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The new self isolation advice came from public health England .

To us it seems a little too late with advice.

It does appear that this is now about to explode all over Europe.

The chances of containment or minimising the spread are long gone.

I wouldn't normally worry about this sort of thing. But having only just recovered from another illness I am slightly worried.

[schmalex]

p1stonhead said:

Today’s update here.

That looks anything but scary to me.

The doom mongers really do need to have a word with themselves...

[mcelliott]

nigelpugh7 said:

mcelliott said:

nigelpugh7 said:

So I’m not a tin foil hat type, but I have to say I’m now really scared.

This has now affected us personally.

My sons school is one of the schools on enforced self quarantine.

They spent the last week in Northern ITALY for a school skiing trip.

Now 47 students and 12 staff have been forced in to two weeks of self quarantine.

I have to say I am now very very worried.

Any confirmed infections then?

We are waiting for the results tomorrow.

Ok that"s the exact same situation with my daughters school, on top of that it turns out that one of the teachers has just returned from China, without telling anyone.

[anxious_ant]

Looks like it's getting very serious now?
Getting very worried here.
Anyone making preparations?

[anonymous-user]

schmalex said:

That looks anything but scary to me.

The doom mongers really do need to have a word with themselves...

I think you need to wise up a bit.

[Gregmitchell]

anxious_ant said:

Looks like it's getting very serious now?
Getting very worried here.
Anyone making preparations?

haha that's brilliant!

[nigelpugh7]

nigelpugh7 said:

The immigration queue was huge for us as european passport holders, but nothing compared to the others, ie Easterners etc.

We were right next to them, but 90% of them had face masks on.

Our queue was mental, took maybe over an hour and a half.

The back up was mental, perhaps 1000+ people.

That queue of people were mostly from the east,,so lots of flights from Singapore and Japan.

There was a group of people in hazmat suits with equipment taking people’s readings, which we assumed was temperature etc.

Some of them were led off by several people in hazmat suits.

It was really scary to see, and even more so to try and explain to my young chidren what was actually going on.

[scottydoesntknow]

Case confirmed in Germany. He’d recently been to Milan.

[Jim on the hill]

anxious_ant said:

Looks like it's getting very serious now?
Getting very worried here.
Anyone making preparations?

What are the Mignon things at the front? They look tasty.

[schmalex]

V6 Pushfit said:

schmalex said:

That looks anything but scary to me.

The doom mongers really do need to have a word with themselves...

I think you need to wise up a bit.

6,000 odd tested. 13 positive. 0 deaths. Not even your cockeyed maths can make that look anythjngnother than the square root of FA

[Jim on the hill]

nigelpugh7 said:

It was really scary to see, and even more so to try and explain to my young chidren what was actually going on.

Surely you just tell them the truth? They might be sick so they are off for treatment? It's not like they will be executed or turn into Zombies.