OFF TOPIC: CORONAVIRUS IN WALES

Coronavirus is spreading all over the world but recently there is a case in Swansea that a patient had been confirmed to have Coronavirus.

It's a rapidly changing situation, people were not taking it that seriously until last week, since then the first death to a UK citizen, the financial markets have gone into freefall, and reports are starting to say that it's 100 times to 1000 times more infectious than SAR's.

I meet a lot of people in my job and many are starting to worry and stop going to event's and holidays, I don't want to be alarmist, but this could be the pandemic they've been talking about for years, let's hope the authorities and ready for it, this looks like a life-changing event!

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I don't think the media help much. One British person has died from this so far. On average, 12,000 people die of seasonal flu in the UK each year, and records say this has been as much as 20,000 in the past. I suppose ordinary flu which kills thousands each years does not sell newspapers or attract advertisers. I remember the swine flu epidemic which had similar coverage by the media. I think eventually that was responsible for around 400 deaths. Hopefully this one won't be any worse. Maybe the youngsters will get some extra school holidays out of it.

I don't think the media help much. One British person has died from this so far. On average, 12,000 people die of seasonal flu in the UK each year, and records say this has been as much as 20,000 in the past. I suppose ordinary flu which kills thousands each years does not sell newspapers or attract advertisers. I remember the swine flu epidemic which had similar coverage by the media. I think eventually that was responsible for around 400 deaths. Hopefully this one won't be any worse. Maybe the youngsters will get some extra school holidays out of it.

Not demeaning the seriousness of this virus and the effects on many people but you are so right that seasonal flu results in thousands of related deaths each year

Coronavirus has taken relatively few to date and is not considered as serious as previous 'new' outbreaks

This year's current media focus; in the New Year it was Harry and Meghan and others will surely follow as the days (and media need for stories to run with) roll on...

It's a rapidly changing situation, people were not taking it that seriously until last week, since then the first death to a UK citizen, the financial markets have gone into freefall, and reports are starting to say that it's 100 times to 1000 times more infectious than SAR's.

I meet a lot of people in my job and many are starting to worry and stop going to event's and holidays, I don't want to be alarmist, but this could be the pandemic they've been talking about for years, let's hope the authorities and ready for it, this looks like a life-changing event!

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/arti ... -warn.html

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/arti ... riend.html

You are correct it is a rapidly changing situation and yes it's likely the virus will be present in regions all over the world and likely in towns and places closer and you'd like. But very few people ever display severe symptoms and the death toll so far from the thousands of infections is miniscule in comparison to other potentially dangerous infections. Realistically in developed countries it will be the economy that takes the brunt of the damage, stock trading is already affected,sports and entertainment events may be cancelled, school closures and local quarantines will likely force many working parents to stay at home with their children instead of turning up to their jobs. At the end of it though things will continue as normal, as they have done with the total death toll effectively being neglible.

The people really facing severe danger from this are those that live in under developed nations where health care systems are underfunded or non existent, or warzones like northern Syria and Yemen where healthcare is again limited and movement of health workers and flow of workers is extremely restricted.

This really isn't going to be the next Spanish Flu of 1918 with it's estimated 50 million deaths so everyone should simply remain calm whilst not undertaking overt risks, if your government tells you to avoid travel to 'area X' it's probably best to listen to them on this occasion. Hopefully I won't be proved wrong and in a few months we'll just be back to worrying about where goals are gonna come from .

I don't think the media help much. One British person has died from this so far. On average, 12,000 people die of seasonal flu in the UK each year, and records say this has been as much as 20,000 in the past. I suppose ordinary flu which kills thousands each years does not sell newspapers or attract advertisers. I remember the swine flu epidemic which had similar coverage by the media. I think eventually that was responsible for around 400 deaths. Hopefully this one won't be any worse. Maybe the youngsters will get some extra school holidays out of it.

seems to be most peoples take on it mate.. the numbers do not correspond with the media coverage..
so they are either over reacting or hiding the truth ?

There could be a halt to the football league if things develop which would help clubs with injured players, but not looking good for the euros.

I don't think the media help much. One British person has died from this so far. On average, 12,000 people die of seasonal flu in the UK each year, and records say this has been as much as 20,000 in the past. I suppose ordinary flu which kills thousands each years does not sell newspapers or attract advertisers. I remember the swine flu epidemic which had similar coverage by the media. I think eventually that was responsible for around 400 deaths. Hopefully this one won't be any worse. Maybe the youngsters will get some extra school holidays out of it.

seems to be most peoples take on it mate.. the numbers do not correspond with the media coverage..
so they are either over reacting or hiding the truth ?

Well let's hope it's the former eh?

I don't think the media help much. One British person has died from this so far. On average, 12,000 people die of seasonal flu in the UK each year, and records say this has been as much as 20,000 in the past. I suppose ordinary flu which kills thousands each years does not sell newspapers or attract advertisers. I remember the swine flu epidemic which had similar coverage by the media. I think eventually that was responsible for around 400 deaths. Hopefully this one won't be any worse. Maybe the youngsters will get some extra school holidays out of it.

seems to be most peoples take on it mate.. the numbers do not correspond with the media coverage..
so they are either over reacting or hiding the truth ?

Well let's hope it's the former eh?

I have a friend who is from Hong Kong originally and returned from a visit back from Hong Kong about 3 weeks ago and she said the people out their adament it's a lot worse in China than is being reported which would surprise no one.

I don't think the media help much. One British person has died from this so far. On average, 12,000 people die of seasonal flu in the UK each year, and records say this has been as much as 20,000 in the past. I suppose ordinary flu which kills thousands each years does not sell newspapers or attract advertisers. I remember the swine flu epidemic which had similar coverage by the media. I think eventually that was responsible for around 400 deaths. Hopefully this one won't be any worse. Maybe the youngsters will get some extra school holidays out of it.

seems to be most peoples take on it mate.. the numbers do not correspond with the media coverage..
so they are either over reacting or hiding the truth ?

Well let's hope it's the former eh?

indeed. just seems really odd..

No saying where I work but there is a huge interaction with staff and customers. Arrived for work today and all free canteen vending machines out of commission to prevent and contamination

I think this is going to escalate here shortly and things are going to change quite rapidly sports events are going to be effected lets hope the isis terrorists don' t deliberatly try catching it to spread this virus everywhere.

Twelve more patients in England have tested positive for coronavirus, taking the total number of UK cases to 35.

Three patients were confirmed as close contacts of a man from Surrey, who was the first to be infected within the UK.

One person from Essex had "no relevant travel" and it was unclear how they had got the virus, while the remaining eight had visited affected areas.

It comes after Health Secretary Matt Hancock said the UK was still in the "containment" phase of the outbreak.

He said the government contingency plans, which will be published this week, included banning big events.

I think this is going to escalate here shortly and things are going to change quite rapidly sports events are going to be effected lets hope the isis terrorists don' t deliberatly try catching it to spread this virus everywhere.

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no doubt the English are equally concerned about some mad nationalist catching it and then pissing in the resovoirs.

DOGFOUND

passionate nationalist not mad although the missus thinks like you,my missus is acutally worse, she said the other day that the english have been demanding more water from wales recently, well there you go i will remember to wash my hands in the water after my ablutions.
Seriously i really think this could scare the sh.te out of a lot of people including myself , happy st davids day, stay safe.

DOGFOUND

passionate nationalist not mad although the missus thinks like you,my missus is acutally worse, she said the other day that the english have been demanding more water from wales recently, well there you go i will remember to wash my hands in the water after my ablutions.
Seriously i really think this could scare the sh.te out of a lot of people including myself , happy st davids day, stay safe.

yes passionate sounds better.... feel sorry for those English people..such a dry arid land and now a drought..

I am just waiting for a Jehovah witness to knock on my door to tell me the end is coming rainning for 40 days and nights fires in auz land now the new plague
Across the world,
If the main man is going to make an appearance i am going to mention and see if anything can be done about the shocking reffereeing decisions lately.

60 million people on this island we live on.

35 cases.

Deadly threat to us all or massive media led over reaction?

Only time will tell I suppose.

DAVID'S

nothing in south korea about a fornight ago now nearly 4,000 it seems when it does start it grows rapidly yes at the moment 35 in 60 mill but the effect on every day life will change quickly when the powers that be start cancelling events sports, Concerts travel airports trains etc.

DAVIDS

The worse thing about this virus there will be no vacine for at least 12 months and nobody has a immune system to battle against this
unlike flu we have all had a dose of flu in our lives and have built in immunity to some degree.

I think we are right to be concerned about it but lets not get to over the top about it.

In china 80,000 have caught it and 2000 have died. Thats 1 in 40

1 in 40

Or to put it another way....... within your lifetime there is a 1 in 40 chance of developing cancer (which in itself is survivable in many instances)

The people who have died are often those in the 80+ age braked (14% have died) where as the younger groups only 0.2% have actually died and the majority are because those individuals have underlying illnesses.

I think we are right to be concerned about it but lets not get to over the top about it.

In china 80,000 have caught it and 2000 have died. Thats 1 in 40

1 in 40

Or to put it another way....... within your lifetime there is a 1 in 40 chance of developing cancer (which in itself is survivable in many instances)

The people who have died are often those in the 80+ age braked (14% have died) where as the younger groups only 0.2% have actually died and the majority are because those individuals have underlying illnesses.

So what your saying is as a 62yo diabetic I should now be shitting myself.

I think we are right to be concerned about it but lets not get to over the top about it.

In china 80,000 have caught it and 2000 have died. Thats 1 in 40

1 in 40

Or to put it another way....... within your lifetime there is a 1 in 40 chance of developing cancer (which in itself is survivable in many instances)

The people who have died are often those in the 80+ age braked (14% have died) where as the younger groups only 0.2% have actually died and the majority are because those individuals have underlying illnesses.

So what your saying is as a 62yo diabetic I should now be shitting myself.

I cant get my head around the coverage ...
250k people a year die in China { the most infected country } in road traffic accidents and 2k have died in about 3 months from this …
so at the moment id be more afraid of driving to tescos mate..

I think we are right to be concerned about it but lets not get to over the top about it.

In china 80,000 have caught it and 2000 have died. Thats 1 in 40

1 in 40

Or to put it another way....... within your lifetime there is a 1 in 40 chance of developing cancer (which in itself is survivable in many instances)

The people who have died are often those in the 80+ age braked (14% have died) where as the younger groups only 0.2% have actually died and the majority are because those individuals have underlying illnesses.

So what your saying is as a 62yo diabetic I should now be shitting myself.

I cant get my head around the coverage ...
250k people a year die in China { the most infected country } in road traffic accidents and 2k have died in about 3 months from this …
so at the moment id be more afraid of driving to tescos mate..

Love that statistic!

I wonder if it's man made?
So that the drug companies can make even more money!

Aids back in the 80's was also rumoured to be man made.

Or a Chinese biological weapon, tested on their own people first?

I'm only kidding.

But the truth is out there for all you conspiracy theorist's.

I’m over in Tenerife at the moment,you would nt know there was a problem,straight through airport no signs,no restriction and no checks

I’m over in Tenerife at the moment,you would nt know there was a problem,straight through airport no signs,no restriction and no checks

think its the same at our airports.. arrivals are not being screened..

60 million people on this island we live on.

35 cases.

Deadly threat to us all or massive media led over reaction?

Only time will tell I suppose.

It only takes one, and it's 35 we know of, with thousands of people returning from and going skiing in Italy, and traveling around the rest of the World.

We'll have a big increase in March and even bigger in April, let's see where we are after that?

BA and Ryan air have started cancelling flights….

DOGFOUND

red crosses on the doors next.