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Yes, I brought this up at a work meeting last week. Was feeling peeved with people saying "Yes, but most people will only be lightly affected, it's only the elderly and those with preexisting medical conditions that are at risk. Pointed out I have close relatives with asthma and diabetes, and...

But do you become contagious as soon as you are infected?

Does anyone know what the time interval is between when a person first becomes contagious, to when they first start to show symptoms?

This is why the spread has to be slowed as early as possible. The more rapidly the number of infected cases ramps up, the more people there will be at any one time not yet recovered.

If they could then presumably there would not be a 80% worst case infection rate? There would be no infection-immune "buffer zone" emerge? The infection rate would limit at 100%?

There is also the other side of the coin though - social responsibility. The point will very soon come - may already be here in fact - where large gatherings might well facilitate faster spreading of the virus, at the very time when slowing down its spread is crucial. We are not going to stop it...

https://diabetesvoice.org/en/news/covid-19-and-diabetes/

And yet there is a lot in the news about people being at higher risk with other health conditions, and they always mention diabetes.

Sorry! I'll correct :oops:.

Yes, the Covid-19 situation will have deteriorated quite significantly even by the 19th I suspect. Would not be surprised to see over a thousand cases in the UK by then. The odds are the event would have to be cancelled at short notice anyway I would think.

As a teenager there was a certain famous actress I took rather a shine to ... until I read she did this. Instant turn off!

Does anyone know how the risks stack up for people with either asthma or type-2 diabetes if they get Covid-19?

Long time ago I heard the 'fatigue' with ME/CFS described as akin to what a marathon runner experiences when they "hit the wall". Except pwME experience it far, far more frequently, triggered by far, far lower levels of everyday activity. This seemed to fit with what I observed in my wife. It...

Yes, it's if the lighted cloth is in proximity to a larger source of meths giving off fumes.

Lost a good friend and colleague to cancer a while ago now, and there came a point where he was not eating anything, yet he was still going to the loo. His specialist explained that a significant component of poo is your own discarded body cells - part of the natural process. In his case of...

You would need some sort of batching strategy, else each time you added something into the store, thereby risking contaminating that already in there, you would then have to restart the quarantine timer. But it's not a bad idea if that were solved. Maybe two stores - one already quarantined, and...

Ah, that's different. People preparing for a nuclear holocaust level catastrophe!

Not quite as simple as it might seem though. We have bought a couple of extra packs of loo rolls. If we had to say indoors for two weeks and not go shopping, the very last thing we would want to run out of would be loo rolls. Just order them online instead? ... hmm, like I believe that is...

If doing this then will have to extremely careful, given meths is highly inflammable and a cloth soaked in it effectively becomes a wick. A sort of Molokov cocktail.

The trouble is this probably means their will likely be other undiagnosed cases, with less severe symptoms, or maybe even no symptoms at all yet. I imagine it will inevitably be the more severely affected who get diagnosed earlier.