Corona Virus Treatment

We got groceries for our 92 year old cousin who is totally all there ,a little unstable on her feet.
She is devastated she can’t have her hair done at the hairdressers tomorrow as she does every Saturday.
Even more devastated that we couldn’t go in for tea......I said Boris said no.......She said bugger Boris lol.
She is on her own with good neighbours but it’s already taking it’s toll.

 

Bless her lovely heart..I just love the spirit of our older generation,many should take a leaf out of their book

 

Mr Corbin would be shouting, free broadband for everyone.

 

I have to say I agree with both of you here, being a labour voter (which is not the topic) I don't think Corbyn would have the capacity to be decisive, that said I've always felt Johnson is a buffoon but I honestly feel he is doing what he can in a such a difficult situation, I wouldn't like to question his decisions because I haven't got a clue what to do,
he is acting on advice of the people who are most qualified to advise, i think he has looked worn out this last week but i have to say when your
Prime minister
Secretary of state for health and social care both have the virus and the Chief medical officer is now self isolating because he is showing symptoms, there must be loads of people thinking "bloody hell and they're telling me how to look after myself"

 

8

I think you could say the same about everyone who has caught it, why has anyone got it?

It's out there and if you are doing your still doing your job I think there is a very good chance anyone could pick it up.
Apart from NHS workers I think delivery people and post office staff are at risk, but some things have to go on, we can't all hide.

 

Hi @wiseowl , he didn't know he had the virus until midnight last night long after he was outside clapping.

 

The point I was trying to make was not whether TV was essential or not but that the 900 or so employees are not even involved in the technical side of it and are sitting close to one another, the technical side is small and could remain open as essential but all staff are being included as essential even those at high risk with underlying issues, and most of these could operate from home.

 

Jeepers, that's a tough one to answer tactfully and I mean no disrespect to anyone.
Bearing in mind that I am a socialist it surprised me that I feel that the damage done to the economy is too high a price to have paid. Sadly the financial cost will be paid by our young and it will be paid for many years to come by them. But there will be a hidden cost too as discussed (very eloquently) by Matthew Paris in The Times last week and reproduced in the link below................
Matthew Paris: Crashing The Economy Will Also Cost Lives - The Global Warming Policy Forum (GWPF)

I accept that it is not a popular, or even palatable, point of view but it is not to be shirked. The harsh fact is that the cutbacks post 2008 in all walks of public spending (education, healthcare, welfare, law and order etc) will seem small compared to what is coming to pay for this. Money makes the world go around I'm afraid and never is that more true than when it comes to opening the public purse up for those in need.
So was BoJo right? My gut feeling is that he has gone about it wrong. But is it right to leave a portion of society vulnerable, even if that percentage is estimated to be less than one percent? Not really. And that in a nutshell is why we need a more competent, and cooler, hand on the wheel at a time such as this than Boris.
For perspective I should state that my former partner tested positive ten days ago. She had been self isolating since a member of staff in her office went down with the virus. I last saw her on the 16th February which was theoretically before the infection arrived in her (New York) office but as I am still listed as her partner on her file I have been able to take advantage of the course of four weekly tests that her employer is paying for. This is a comfort for my new partner and I but I also accept that my comments above are made with a relative sense of security about our own current status re the virus.