Corona Virus Treatment

Well really just having a go at the TV companies, a new scientist every morning, I think they must be real ones because most look like they have been dragged through a hedge backwards.

Yes Britain does have some good scientists, but the best usually go abroad to do their work, or so it seems.
I think it used to be called the "brain drain".

 

"circuit breaker" another new term to add to the list.

What would it achieve other than another few weeks before we then need another circuit breaker and then another one.
Personally I dont have a clue, but it appears neither do they if that is the best they can come up with.
Other European countries seem to be doing exactly the same.
Its all a matter of not overrunning the NHS I dont think its really about saving lives, it wont do that.
The final death toll will be the same at the end of the day, its just this way it will take longer to get there.

 

Well done Mark:

People in parts of the UK with high rates of Covid-19 will be banned from travelling to Wales under plans announced by Wales' first minister.

The rules are planned to come into force on Friday at 18:00 BST.

Enforcement details have not been confirmed but it is likely breaking the law could attract a fixed penalty notice, or a fine if it goes to court.

Boris is not happy apparently...

 

[QUOTE if you have a different view, then you are just plain disregarded as a tinfoil hat wearing eejit. Now, whilst I accept fully that there will definitely be views that are just plain wrong, or can be proven wrong, to have their views simply disregarded out of hand is NOT how science works.[/QUOTE]

I have some time for this point.

 

[QUOTE
Its all a matter of not overrunning the NHS I dont think its really about saving lives, it wont do that.
The final death toll will be the same at the end of the day, its just this way it will take longer to get there.[/QUOTE]

I feel it is too early to say whether it will be effective. There are many drawbacks to a circuit breaker, but one advantage is that it at least buys time - taking some weight off the hospitals while we try to come up with better alternatives in the interim.

 

Well, at what point will it be possible to say?
We are not being told the ultimate aim, bearing in mind this is just playing for time.

 

I was watching the FA Cup on the BBC Red button last night, where supporters were huddled together, no social distancing at all, this is why I won't be going to a local match anytime soon.

 

Comment just seen now on twitter - "I don’t know how the ‘learn to live with the virus’ brigade think the NHS will cope. I would make them all do a shift on a COVID ward." Food for thought?

 

I get where you're coming from but the mop joke is a cheap shot, to be honest. Even amid the worst horrors of the two World Wars, troops serving on the front line had "time" to have breaks from duty and watch entertainment, and so on. I haven't seen the TikTok thing you refer to, but I know it won't have been done at the expense of patient care. Hospital staff have breaks and time off. I worked in a hospital for 3 years and I can tell you those breaks are well needed, and you would be surprised at some of the zany stuff that can go on - in that sort of work you need it as a kind of gallows humour or just to chill out, otherwise you would end up permanently stressed. Yes, I am fully aware it is what they signed up for, and no, I am not suggesting they are saints. My mother is currently residing at the mercy of the NHS and I've nothing but admiration for how they are looking after her. If the nurses taking care of her want to spend the odd break time pratting about with mops then go for it, is what I say. At the very least, a few TikTok videos shouldn't affect our overall view of what they do, or how deserving they may or may not be of public support.

 

Somewhere between a nano second and a hundred years.