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Trigger Warning, https://www.oxfordsu.org/resourcehub/guidetotriggerwarnings/ At the moment with coronavirus I often feel like I need to put trigger warnings in front of many posts. I’m not sure if I should. But I’m trying to do it with posts in this topic/thread in particular, as I feel they...

Trigger Warning: may be upsetting for people with ME, especially severe ME, older people, or if you know people with other conditions. About death and if you are entitled to ICU care. Financial Times article: NHS ‘score’ tool to decide which patients receive critical care...

Is the U.K. definitely going to be getting a tracking app? I remember an article about that - but were they just exploring that or is it definitely getting rolled out to everyone?

why are they unreliable?

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/12/virus-hitting-hardest-modern-equivalent-victorian-slums Cramped living conditions may be accelerating UK spread of coronavirus Analysis by the New Policy Institute shows that even after allowing for the much higher infection rates in London, the...

Yes I did get a lupus diagnosis And I also have an ME/CFS diagnosis

I was denied investigations into Lupus at first, despite my GP flagging it up - the rheumatologist I saw first said the blood tests didn’t mean anything, I definitely had CFS and needed to do CBT. He refused to do any further investigations or tests. If I hadn’t gone private after that and seen...

I would hope so, but it doesn’t look like that’s happening :( NHS staff are still being forbidden from speaking out: https://theguardian.com/society/2020/apr/09/nhs-staff-forbidden-speaking-out-publicly-about-coronavirus? Then we have Matt Hancock’s comments yesterday about NHS staff using too...

Edit sorry just saw this has already been posted!

After saying yesterday it would be inappropriate to release the number of deaths of NHS workers, he has said it today: (However this does not as far as I’m aware, include staff in social care):

I found this article from the middle of March: https://www.standard.co.uk/comment/comment/rory-stewart-aggressive-action-comes-at-a-huge-cost-but-it-will-save-lives-immediately-a4391816.html

Sorry, shall edit UK to England and Wales! I think Northern Ireland may be operating also: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-52020326

I’m thinking this could also be contributed to because of the places that have been hit. The area I live in London, with a hospital one of the worst hit hospitals, is 51% BME. I think Northwick Park (Watford), also is like 40% BME. As was said in the talk earlier, many of these areas including...

This has come up in earlier posts, but now the head of the British Medical Association has explicitly called on the govt to urgently investigate why BME people are dying/ in ICU in much greater numbers from coronavirus in the UK (compared to the proportion of the population)...

I think in the UK construction work was never stopped, they’re still going to work because it’s deemed essential work. I can imagine in other countries the rationale might be then, it is “essential” work? Edit: not the UK - it is England, Wales and Northern Ireland. Scotland has closed down...

Same in my block of flats. It’s ridiculous. Our balconies are attached together so if my neighbour (not that he’s actually in the house right now), was to stand at his balcony, and my mum was to stand in hers - def less than 2m distance. But people were doing that last night. Or imagine hundreds...

I wrote this post a while ago on this topic, after some research. https://www.s4me.info/threads/coronavirus-worldwide-spread-and-control.13287/page-67#post-246451 Edit: most (all?) of that - the UK is not doing. Only thing maybe in common is the closing of all shops except food + pharmacies...

Doesn’t it seem far too early to lift lockdown in these countries? What measures are in place to reduce resurgence? China was far far stricter with their lockdown and still had a lockdown of 2 months in Wuhan, and even then, they’ve had to be very careful when re-opening. I haven’t been closely...

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