kent_white Posted March 27, 2020 Posted March 27, 2020 Chris Whitty self isolating too now. I'm going to end up doing the press conference by next week! 🙂 Quote
kent_white Posted March 27, 2020 Posted March 27, 2020 8 minutes ago, Mounts Kipper said: Bad news is that. Good luck and thanks for all you and the NHS staff do. 👏👏👏 Thanks Mounts - I'm just a pen pusher at the moment though. Pretty sure I'll get asked to but my blues on again soon (I've already volunteered like) 🙂 Quote
Escobarp Posted March 27, 2020 Posted March 27, 2020 6 minutes ago, kent_white said: Chris Whitty self isolating too now. I'm going to end up doing the press conference by next week! 🙂 Fanny5 before you pal he’s just letting witty have a bash as his junior/work experience Quote
peelyfeet Posted March 27, 2020 Posted March 27, 2020 Birmingham is now the Local authority with highest cases - 366 Round here are still some of the lowest Bury 30 Bolton 27 Blackburn 7 Wigan 21 Lincolnshire and Hull lowest with 5 Quote
Leyther_Matt Posted March 27, 2020 Posted March 27, 2020 On 24/03/2020 at 22:13, Leyther_Matt said: Would have thought GMex would have been more suitable on that front. Fully expect more hotels to be turned over for medical use as well. Think you’ll find you read it on here first, love. Quote
Rudy Posted March 27, 2020 Author Posted March 27, 2020 Does anywhere deliver alcohol to homes? Quote
Spider Posted March 27, 2020 Posted March 27, 2020 4 minutes ago, Rudy’s Message said: Does anywhere deliver alcohol to homes? Me but it’ll cost Quote
Smiley Posted March 27, 2020 Posted March 27, 2020 Sorry if this has been posted. Just received it.... Just got this from a nurse friend Sharon. This is a full and frank message. Please forward to the rest of the family, and your loved ones if you choose. I had a meeting today with our Medical Director, who has been in touch with government. The following therefore has some authority. By the weekend, London will be in full lockdown, with Army manned checkpoints. Only key workers, NHS staff, police, ambulance, fire, delivery drivers, and teachers looking after the children of the above, will be allowed to move around the city. By next week, those restrictions will apply to the country. Tonight Lewisham Hospital is overwhelmed, ambulances on divert, and only a few ventilators left. QEH is close behind. My Trust is in the frontline of this epidemic, mainly due to local demographics. The rest of the NHS is probably little more than a week behind. We have denied critical care to four patients today, who will die as a result. I must now be clear. Anyone over 75 years old will be denied critical care; anyone over 65 with diseases, eg diabetes, COPD, will be denied critical care. We are ramping up palliative care services. If an elderly patient falls sick, and requires hospital care, there will be an immediate DNAR order on them. They will be palliated, and they will live or die. The government forecast of 250,000 deaths is, we believe, hopelessly optimistic. The mortality rate is very high in the elderly. The ICU stay on a ventilator even in survivors is about three weeks. We will run out of ventilators in a week. The Army is setting up field hospitals, no doubt with squaddies manually bagging patients. You will not hear this from Boris Johnson for a few days. But please be assured it is coming. We are two weeks behind Italy. For the family therefore, anyone over 65 is to self isolate, possibly for many weeks. Maintain contact through frequent video calls. If they need food or supplies, take them over and leave the bags on the doorstep, and wave at them from at least a six foot distance. They are not to touch the bags for 15 minutes. Do not visit for 14 days if you or anyone in your household is unwell with and fever, cough or 'flu like symptoms. If you are unwell, stay indoors, along with your whole family. Have a neighbour or a friend drop off supplies, with no social contact. We need to blunt the curve, which is right now exponentially rising. For myself, you cannot imagine the stress we are under. The awful decisions we will have to make. We will be taking otherise healthy 60 year olds off a ventilator to die so we can save a 30 year old. Please stay safe. I'll email when I can with news from the frontline. With much love to you all, Quote
jmjhb Posted March 27, 2020 Posted March 27, 2020 (edited) 7 minutes ago, Rudy’s Message said: Does anywhere deliver alcohol to homes? Most of the local breweries are Bunbury's too possibly Edited March 27, 2020 by jmjhb Quote
boogs Posted March 27, 2020 Posted March 27, 2020 5 minutes ago, Rudy’s Message said: Does anywhere deliver alcohol to homes? Bunburys I believe. I know I'm only a lurker but we need to come together for such issues 😊 Quote
Mounts Kipper Posted March 27, 2020 Posted March 27, 2020 (edited) 11 minutes ago, Smiley said: Sorry if this has been posted. Just received it.... Just got this from a nurse friend Sharon. This is a full and frank message. Please forward to the rest of the family, and your loved ones if you choose. I had a meeting today with our Medical Director, who has been in touch with government. The following therefore has some authority. By the weekend, London will be in full lockdown, with Army manned checkpoints. Only key workers, NHS staff, police, ambulance, fire, delivery drivers, and teachers looking after the children of the above, will be allowed to move around the city. By next week, those restrictions will apply to the country. Tonight Lewisham Hospital is overwhelmed, ambulances on divert, and only a few ventilators left. QEH is close behind. My Trust is in the frontline of this epidemic, mainly due to local demographics. The rest of the NHS is probably little more than a week behind. We have denied critical care to four patients today, who will die as a result. I must now be clear. Anyone over 75 years old will be denied critical care; anyone over 65 with diseases, eg diabetes, COPD, will be denied critical care. We are ramping up palliative care services. If an elderly patient falls sick, and requires hospital care, there will be an immediate DNAR order on them. They will be palliated, and they will live or die. The government forecast of 250,000 deaths is, we believe, hopelessly optimistic. The mortality rate is very high in the elderly. The ICU stay on a ventilator even in survivors is about three weeks. We will run out of ventilators in a week. The Army is setting up field hospitals, no doubt with squaddies manually bagging patients. You will not hear this from Boris Johnson for a few days. But please be assured it is coming. We are two weeks behind Italy. For the family therefore, anyone over 65 is to self isolate, possibly for many weeks. Maintain contact through frequent video calls. If they need food or supplies, take them over and leave the bags on the doorstep, and wave at them from at least a six foot distance. They are not to touch the bags for 15 minutes. Do not visit for 14 days if you or anyone in your household is unwell with and fever, cough or 'flu like symptoms. If you are unwell, stay indoors, along with your whole family. Have a neighbour or a friend drop off supplies, with no social contact. We need to blunt the curve, which is right now exponentially rising. For myself, you cannot imagine the stress we are under. The awful decisions we will have to make. We will be taking otherise healthy 60 year olds off a ventilator to die so we can save a 30 year old. Please stay safe. I'll email when I can with news from the frontline. With much love to you all, 250k? Is that worldwide? If that’s UK only I honestly am struggling to believe those figures Edited March 27, 2020 by Mounts Kipper Quote
RONNIE PHILLIPS Posted March 27, 2020 Posted March 27, 2020 Dianne Abbott has announced she has tested positive for Covid 11.25 Quote
Lt. Aldo Raine Posted March 27, 2020 Posted March 27, 2020 8 minutes ago, Smiley said: Sorry if this has been posted. Just received it.... Just got this from a nurse friend Sharon. This is a full and frank message. Please forward to the rest of the family, and your loved ones if you choose. I had a meeting today with our Medical Director, who has been in touch with government. The following therefore has some authority. By the weekend, London will be in full lockdown, with Army manned checkpoints. Only key workers, NHS staff, police, ambulance, fire, delivery drivers, and teachers looking after the children of the above, will be allowed to move around the city. By next week, those restrictions will apply to the country. Tonight Lewisham Hospital is overwhelmed, ambulances on divert, and only a few ventilators left. QEH is close behind. My Trust is in the frontline of this epidemic, mainly due to local demographics. The rest of the NHS is probably little more than a week behind. We have denied critical care to four patients today, who will die as a result. I must now be clear. Anyone over 75 years old will be denied critical care; anyone over 65 with diseases, eg diabetes, COPD, will be denied critical care. We are ramping up palliative care services. If an elderly patient falls sick, and requires hospital care, there will be an immediate DNAR order on them. They will be palliated, and they will live or die. The government forecast of 250,000 deaths is, we believe, hopelessly optimistic. The mortality rate is very high in the elderly. The ICU stay on a ventilator even in survivors is about three weeks. We will run out of ventilators in a week. The Army is setting up field hospitals, no doubt with squaddies manually bagging patients. You will not hear this from Boris Johnson for a few days. But please be assured it is coming. We are two weeks behind Italy. For the family therefore, anyone over 65 is to self isolate, possibly for many weeks. Maintain contact through frequent video calls. If they need food or supplies, take them over and leave the bags on the doorstep, and wave at them from at least a six foot distance. They are not to touch the bags for 15 minutes. Do not visit for 14 days if you or anyone in your household is unwell with and fever, cough or 'flu like symptoms. If you are unwell, stay indoors, along with your whole family. Have a neighbour or a friend drop off supplies, with no social contact. We need to blunt the curve, which is right now exponentially rising. For myself, you cannot imagine the stress we are under. The awful decisions we will have to make. We will be taking otherise healthy 60 year olds off a ventilator to die so we can save a 30 year old. Please stay safe. I'll email when I can with news from the frontline. With much love to you all, I'm not sure it's wise to post these kinds of thing. They can't be properly verified and I doubt that someone trusted with such knowledge would be irresponsible enough to leak it. Quote
Escobarp Posted March 27, 2020 Posted March 27, 2020 3 minutes ago, Lt. Aldo Raine said: I'm not sure it's wise to post these kinds of thing. They can't be properly verified and I doubt that someone trusted with such knowledge would be irresponsible enough to leak it. I would rather read it actually. I’m not going to panic but it just reinforces what is ACTUALLY happening in Italy right now so it’s better we get prepared for what is coming in the next week or so Quote
ErnestTurnip Posted March 27, 2020 Posted March 27, 2020 Anything that starts "please forward to ......" is definitely legit, seen loads of them on Facebook and can't see any reason why someone would just make something up like that. Quote
Lt. Aldo Raine Posted March 27, 2020 Posted March 27, 2020 3 minutes ago, Escobarp said: I would rather read it actually. I’m not going to panic but it just reinforces what is ACTUALLY happening in Italy right now so it’s better we get prepared for what is coming in the next week or so But surely it's only worth reading credible, verifiable information? It reads just like one of those viral (no pun intended) emails that go round. Quote
Marc505 Posted March 27, 2020 Posted March 27, 2020 Just can't see a glimmer of a positive spin from any of that, so sad. Quote
MancWanderer Posted March 27, 2020 Posted March 27, 2020 Don’t know what it’s like at Royal Bolton but it’s ramped up at Royal Oldham Hospital. No visitors at all now. MiL seriously ill but no idea on her current state. Up til today FiL was only one allowed to visit. He’s only allowed up now if he gets a phone call to say it’s end of life. No-one’s answering the phones because staff numbers are so stretched so can’t get any update. Dread to think what it will be like when the numbers inevitably increase Quote
kent_white Posted March 27, 2020 Posted March 27, 2020 21 minutes ago, Mounts Kipper said: 250k? Is that worldwide? If that’s UK only I honestly am struggling to believe those figures That's UK - we've been talking about it for weeks. Without a vaccine or antivirals it's just maths. Quote
Mounts Kipper Posted March 27, 2020 Posted March 27, 2020 33 minutes ago, Lt. Aldo Raine said: I'm not sure it's wise to post these kinds of thing. They can't be properly verified and I doubt that someone trusted with such knowledge would be irresponsible enough to leak it. 100% agree. 👍 Quote
Tonge moor green jacket Posted March 27, 2020 Posted March 27, 2020 3 hours ago, kent_white said: I've just been for a shower and realised I literally can't smell anything. It's weird as fuck! Could you smell something before your shower? If yes, perhaps you should have had one earlier... Quote
Spider Posted March 27, 2020 Posted March 27, 2020 My 6 year old daughter has been fairly subdued today. Slept most of the afternoon. Just given her some food and she’s saying she can’t taste anything. I’ve just utterly shat myself. What do we do? Quote
Morizio Posted March 27, 2020 Posted March 27, 2020 2 minutes ago, Spider said: My 6 year old daughter has been fairly subdued today. Slept most of the afternoon. Just given her some food and she’s saying she can’t taste anything. I’ve just utterly shat myself. What do we do? Keep a cool head Quote
Tonge moor green jacket Posted March 27, 2020 Posted March 27, 2020 5 minutes ago, Spider said: My 6 year old daughter has been fairly subdued today. Slept most of the afternoon. Just given her some food and she’s saying she can’t taste anything. I’ve just utterly shat myself. What do we do? Isolate and look after yourselves. Wife has heard there's also a chesty bug doing the rounds, which isn't obviously covid, but might share some symptoms. Quote
Morizio Posted March 27, 2020 Posted March 27, 2020 2 minutes ago, Tonge moor green jacket said: Isolate and look after yourselves. Wife has heard there's also a chesty bug doing the rounds, which isn't obviously covid, but might share some symptoms. I'm hoping that's what I've got Quote
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