Meningitus and Covid

[Peter911]

With all this fuss about how many are infected with Covid, but without symptoms, I have been amazed at the actions of the government, PHE, media etc.

It is well recognised that around 10% of the population carries the meningococcus in the back of their throat or nose without causing any illness. It is transmitted from person to person by inhaling respiratory secretions.

Why haven't we been told to wear masks for the last however many years that this has been known?

Or more pertinately, why are we now? If the same amount of testing was being for for meningococcus as is for Covid, we would be in lockdown forever.

[poo at Paul's]

I don't know but having had meningitis when i was a nipper, it is no picnic!

[richardxjr]

Ahh, that was back in the good old days of medicine and looking after people.

Now you have to hide away, feel guilty, interact with nobody, cover up, shut up, take the money and get the kids to pay for it.

[bigandclever]

I don’t know, but I’d bet there have been more covid 19 cases in the last 12 months than there have been meningococcal meningitis cases in the last 20 years.

[poo at Paul's]

richardxjr said:

Ahh, that was back in the good old days of medicine and looking after people.

Now you have to hide away, feel guilty, interact with nobody, cover up, shut up, take the money and get the kids to pay for it.

It was the mid 70s i was only about 4 or so. GP sent my mum home with me saying it was "just a bug", thankfully a doctor from another surgery lived in our street and my dad went round to bother him that evening, all apologetic like. Doc came and checked on me and i was quickly bundled into the boot of an MGB and raced to hospital for a lumbar puncture!

Very lucky apparently, a few hours later and it would have been cheerio. Still get wild hallucinations when i have a even a mild fever to this day!!

IN the 70s it was a disease that was not as well known about as it is now. This time of year with students going to uni, it is quite a big problem, but one that is known about much more and advertised thankfully. Every student should have a glass tumbler! lol

[richardxjr]

poo at Paul's said:

richardxjr said:

Ahh, that was back in the good old days of medicine and looking after people.

Now you have to hide away, feel guilty, interact with nobody, cover up, shut up, take the money and get the kids to pay for it.

It was the mid 70s i was only about 4 or so. GP sent my mum home with me saying it was "just a bug", thankfully a doctor from another surgery lived in our street and my dad went round to bother him that evening, all apologetic like. Doc came and checked on me and i was quickly bundled into the boot of an MGB and raced to hospital for a lumbar puncture!

Very lucky apparently, a few hours later and it would have been cheerio. Still get wild hallucinations when i have a even a mild fever to this day!!

IN the 70s it was a disease that was not as well known about as it is now. This time of year with students going to uni, it is quite a big problem, but one that is known about much more and advertised thankfully. Every student should have a glass tumbler! lol

Lets hope the students are allowed out to see their doctors then, eh.

[DeWar]

Meningococcus is much, much less easily transmitted than C19, which is one reason why the incidence of serious meningococcal disease is so relatively low (4 cases per 100,000 people per year) and which is why epidemics of meningitis don’t occur (though small, localised outbreaks can rarely happen). Furthermore there is a national vaccination programme. All this means that causing the disruption that has been invoked for C19 would have yielded an absolutely tiny benefit at best in terms of lives saved versus the costs incurred.

[ThumperMc]

poo at Paul's said:

I don't know but having had meningitis when i was a nipper, it is no picnic!

Yup, lad at my school died from it.

Edited by ThumperMc on Friday 9th October 16:42

[poo at Paul's]

richardxjr said:

Lets hope the students are allowed out to see their doctors then, eh.

I think treatment ad medicine is night and day better now compared to the 70s.
It is amazing sometimes to think anyone born more than 50 years ago is still alive!!

This thread piqued my interest from the title, as back in the summer, i said to my firends with kids, imagine you were sending a kid off to Uni. It's always a bit nervy for parents, first term. meningitis, stds, pregnancies etc!! But add Covid into the mix and i can see a heck of a lot of sleepless nights for mum and dad!!