Are you worried yet.

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allandwf

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I'm a bit confused. Reports Prince Charles out of self isolation, after testing positive, does it just go away then?
 

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Perhaps we should be shown more figures of people who have tested positive and walked away a week later to balance up media coverage.
Agreed, I did write quite a long reply to the above about certain people’s negative attitudes, but realised I would regret it later, so I deleted it. Therefore let’s all be a bit more positive, it really will help a lot of people in the long run. We all know what’s happening so let’s not make people feel worse. There are other forums where you can do that.
 

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Well this has finally hit home, found out yesterday that my friend Pauls (some of you will know him from Llandow) wife has CV19 and is on a ventilator in a very poorly condition. My thoughts go out to them and hope that Kath pulls through
Sorry to hear that Andy.....send our best wishes and hope she pulls through this OK.
 

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Agreed, I did write quite a long reply to the above about certain people’s negative attitudes, but realised I would regret it later, so I deleted it. Therefore let’s all be a bit more positive, it really will help a lot of people in the long run. We all know what’s happening so let’s not make people feel worse. There are other forums where you can do that.
I agree with the sentiment here- it’s always nice to hear people recover, and to focus on the numbers of people getting it and those not getting it. The fact is that people who self isolate are likely not to get it- as they are being responsible citizens. Some are hiding as they are scared, some are desperate to help but can’t , some are volunteering to increase their personal risk to help others and the majority are just doing what they are told. It’s no news to say front line NHS staff are 30x more likely to get infected, with a reasonable number of deaths. As the cases pile up in my hospital - what I can’t work out about this disease - is any sense of predictability of who gets it and how it affects them. It seems like Russian roulette. With the first 14 year old dying in Italy and multiple people of 20-40 being ventilated- I am left scratching my head as to the demographics of this.
 

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Sadly true.

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More worrying is a trend towards herd admonishment. At the moment it’s fairly understandable, both in response and what they’re into response to (breaching government guidelines) but the venom I’ve seen is like something I’ve never seen before. I can’t quite articulate it now, but it sets a worrying precedent, one I’ve not seen or heard of on a mass scale in my life time and one I’ve only read about in books from a long time ago, or in foreign regimes. And we thought the people who uploaded dash cam videos were bad; it wouldn’t take much for things to become more violent.
I can’t help but wonder how many of the individual rights that were removed and the extra police/government rights given will stay in place when the world resorts to normal. Some might argue this isn’t the time to be having these thoughts, or expressing them out loud, but when we realise there’s been a collective mistake, it might already be too late.
 

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More worrying is a trend towards herd admonishment. At the moment it’s fairly understandable, both in response and what they’re into response to (breaching government guidelines) but the venom I’ve seen is like something I’ve never seen before. I can’t quite articulate it now, but it sets a worrying precedent, one I’ve not seen or heard of on a mass scale in my life time and one I’ve only read about in books from a long time ago, or in foreign regimes. And we thought the people who uploaded dash cam videos were bad; it wouldn’t take much for things to become more violent.
I can’t help but wonder how many of the individual rights that were removed and the extra police/government rights given will stay in place when the world resorts to normal. Some might argue this isn’t the time to be having these thoughts, or expressing them out loud, but when we realise there’s been a collective mistake, it might already be too late.
Look what's happening in Puglia. Away from the most affected bits of Italy but it's only going to get worse over there. Riots. guns etc.
 

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Look what's happening in Puglia. Away from the most affected bits of Italy but it's only going to get worse over there. Riots. guns etc.
There seems to be a clamouring call for a full on military lockdown. In some ways that seems inevitable - there were estimates of 40 per cent of frontline police succumbing to the virus in a few weeks time, which leaves the army. But for people to ask for a lockdown now, because some youths who they’d never get into contact with anyway, are sitting on some park benches?
Then there’s the anger about going to a national park. On the face of it, rightly infuriating. But some built up areas do not have ready or easy access to open spaces. It’s a tricky one...

edit: I was expecting more looting by now. Some dealerships have been done over already I hear
 
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