[News] The Coronavirus Good News thread

[pearl]

With the schools closing children are being encouraged to be creative!!!!

A young parent recently told me that her twins get ONE hour of Art per TERM

 

[RossyG]

 

[dazzer6666]

Just had a VC with one of my gang in Hong Kong...........things are starting to relax a bit, virtually all the (small number of) new cases are people coming in to HK from Europe........small steps but a bit of normality starting to return.

 

[RossyG]

Mixed news but hopefully a mere blip and definitely a noticeable improvement.

 

[bhafc99]

Dave Beasant's son (who, randomly enough, is my FX trader) just got me an incredible deal on my monthly AED to GBP transfer. Several hundred £ better than usual. Top man!

 

[Perfidious Albion]

Jehovah’s Witnesses will be chuffed everyone’s at home.

I have it on good , inside, authority that they have cancelled their activities until further notice, due to “Pestilence of the Last Days”

 

[East Staffs Gull]

I’m hoping after all this is over that we can have celebrations like VE Day. We can call it CV Day.

With plenty of toilet roll luzzing.

 

[Is it PotG?]

It's still possible to go about your normal, daily life.

Just a little more thought in being safe.

 

[Guinness Boy]

With plenty of toilet roll luzzing.

Exactly!

In fact I think when the football does eventually return we need to round up the horders, nick their bogroll and have a good old fashioned bogroll "display" from the stands. Followed by luzzing the actual horders from the top of the WSU, obvs.

 

[Seagull27]

If anyone's missing club-related stuff and has a free 25 mins, I'd highly recommend listening to this bbc podcast with Glenn Murray from yesterday, really interesting insight to how everything has affected the club and players, and confirmation of what a top man our Glenn is!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p086wxp3

 

[LamieRobertson]

If anyone's missing club-related stuff and has a free 25 mins, I'd highly recommend listening to this bbc podcast with Glenn Murray from yesterday, really interesting insight to how everything has affected the club and players, and confirmation of what a top man our Glenn is!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p086wxp3

Aye...on Albion Unlimited..listened to it earlier

 

[piersa]

The mortality rate is far less than reported, because the mortality rate being reported appears to only be only based on those with confirmed virus. 80% of people have nearly no or mild symptoms and thus barely any of them will report to a medical professional.

This is a good thread. We need to be positive in order to get through this or you will end up driving yourself mad. Best advice is to turn off twitter and facebook. They are an abyss of nonsense.

 

[Bozza]

A new epidemiological paper on Wuhan has been released. It's not considered "live" yet, as it's not been peer reviewed. However, if it passes this review and is accepted, the numbers are very promising, eg:

The total number of infections (i.e. cumulative infections) estimated at 1905526 (95%CrI: 1350283-2655936) in Wuhan City, raising the proportion of infected individuals to 19.1% (95%CrI: 13.5-26.6%). We also found that most recent crude infection fatality ratio (IFR) and time-delay adjusted IFR is estimated to be 0.04% (95% CrI: 0.03-0.06%) and 0.12% (95%CrI: 0.08-0.17%), which is several orders of magnitude smaller than the crude CFR estimated at 4.19%.​

In short, the death rate for this could potentially be far, far lower than previously estimated.

Source >>> https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.02.12.20022434v2

(However, that's still no grounds for complacency since it still has the potential to overwhelm health services with those who do require hospitalisation.)

 

[LamieRobertson]

My Amazon order of loo rolls March arrived today ...relief

 

[hart's shirt]

Crystal Palace have confirmed that none of their players have tested positive for coronavirus.

It didn't come as a surprise to supporters as they're used to negative results.

 

[vegster]

A new epidemiological paper on Wuhan has been released. It's not considered "live" yet, as it's not been peer reviewed. However, if it passes this review and is accepted, the numbers are very promising, eg:

The total number of infections (i.e. cumulative infections) estimated at 1905526 (95%CrI: 1350283-2655936) in Wuhan City, raising the proportion of infected individuals to 19.1% (95%CrI: 13.5-26.6%). We also found that most recent crude infection fatality ratio (IFR) and time-delay adjusted IFR is estimated to be 0.04% (95% CrI: 0.03-0.06%) and 0.12% (95%CrI: 0.08-0.17%), which is several orders of magnitude smaller than the crude CFR estimated at 4.19%.​

In short, the death rate for this could potentially be far, far lower than previously estimated.

Source >>> https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.02.12.20022434v2

(However, that's still no grounds for complacency since it still has the potential to overwhelm health services with those who do require hospitalisation.)

That does sound hopeful but we still need to be scrupulous about hygiene and contacts.

 

[LamieRobertson]

That does sound hopeful but we still need to be scrupulous about hygiene and contacts.

Hence the last sentence in his post

 

[Mellotron]

The mortality rate is far less than reported, because the mortality rate being reported appears to only be only based on those with confirmed virus. 80% of people have nearly no or mild symptoms and thus barely any of them will report to a medical professional.

This is a good thread. We need to be positive in order to get through this or you will end up driving yourself mad. Best advice is to turn off twitter and facebook. They are an abyss of nonsense.

Absolutely. I’m only going on the Gov updates and this thread, basically. The vast majority of twitter (or my Twitter feed, anyway...) and Facebook is really unhelpful.

 

[Mellotron]

A new epidemiological paper on Wuhan has been released. It's not considered "live" yet, as it's not been peer reviewed. However, if it passes this review and is accepted, the numbers are very promising, eg:

The total number of infections (i.e. cumulative infections) estimated at 1905526 (95%CrI: 1350283-2655936) in Wuhan City, raising the proportion of infected individuals to 19.1% (95%CrI: 13.5-26.6%). We also found that most recent crude infection fatality ratio (IFR) and time-delay adjusted IFR is estimated to be 0.04% (95% CrI: 0.03-0.06%) and 0.12% (95%CrI: 0.08-0.17%), which is several orders of magnitude smaller than the crude CFR estimated at 4.19%.​

In short, the death rate for this could potentially be far, far lower than previously estimated.

Source >>> https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.02.12.20022434v2

(However, that's still no grounds for complacency since it still has the potential to overwhelm health services with those who do require hospitalisation.)

Excellent.

Unfounded, I know, but I still suspect far, far, far more than 55,000 have it or have had it already in the UK. Does this paper potentially support that hypothesis?

 

[Guinness Boy]

Absolutely. I’m only going on the Gov updates and this thread, basically. The vast majority of twitter (or my Twitter feed, anyway...) and Facebook is really unhelpful.

If the country gets locked down then Twitter and Facebook should be blocked (won't be possible of course, despite every other business taking a massive twatting). And, preferably, never brought back up.