Seconded. Sadly without a proper testing regime you just can't know :/

Yeah hard to know. Hope it is though as means we'll be free to help out parents and grandparents if they get it or have difficulty getting supplies.

I picked up something horrible mid Feb. Flu type symptoms, not as bad as flu.  Spent a few sleepless night and a couple of days sitting on the sofa.  Cough went from Chesty to dry and still has not fully gone. So no idea what it was.

Ex boss who sits by me at work possibly has it, but she went into self isolation when one of her kids got ill 2.5 weeks ok. So Hoping I am ok

Fingers crossed for you Orcs.

Seconded

Thank you all.  I am perfectly fine so would have been expecting to be showing some symptoms by now.

Of course the boss could just have a dose of something else. with no testing we have no idea. She is a bit self centred so could well be over dramatizing it.

Great news to start off the week.

F1 etc have developed a breathing aid that can be produced at the rate of 1000 per day,

This is the line that we have need to cross to really reduced the potential death toll

Well done all of those who do this sort of thing (developed in just a week apparently).

BBC link
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-52087002

Quote from: Ithoriel on 29 March 2020, 04:30:36 PM
Advice seems to be that we are past the main flu and related illness window so flu-like symptoms are likely to be Covid-19.
If so, I'm glad the symptoms were no worse, mmcv.

Same here, mmcv.....Really not sure what to think, re Mark....(Was it THE virus, in Feb ?)......Sounds very similar to what Von & I caught in January, which we picked up visiting Von's Mum.....Dragged on for well over a couple of months.

Can't really believe that that WAS the dreaded one, and the only place we really could have caught it was the care home. 
As far as the limited contact we've got with the care-home...there have been no 'dramas' with 'bugs'.
In reality, if it got into the care home, that would be the death sentence for......goodness knows, how many.

Take care - All.

Cheers - Phil

Quote from: Norm on 30 March 2020, 05:24:55 AM
Great news to start off the week.

F1 etc have developed a breathing aid that can be produced at the rate of 1000 per day,

This is the line that we have need to cross to really reduced the potential death toll

Well done all of those who do this sort of thing (developed in just a week apparently).

BBC link
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-52087002

Ooo, CPAP machines! What a good lateral thought. Plus afterwards all of us with sleep apnoea might be able to get hold of one  

Just a quick  update on 'shopping'. (From your correspondent in Wales.)

Just back from the hunter-gatherer role.

Tesco's is really getting back to some reasonable semblance of normality....at least in a small/small-medium town.

Nothing missing......Ooodles of loo-roll....Paracetomol....Yep, the shelf was full.....'Meat' aisle.....That's the fullest I've seen for about six weeks.

Got my frozen 'sprouts'......and my Twiglets.....HUZZAH !!!

O.K.....we're still going to have to put up with 'social distancing' for probably months, at this point.
Folk in the store...Pretty relaxed, and calm.

Only 'iffy' bit I 'had to put up with' was someone in front of me at 'the hole in the wall', having a massive coughing fit.
UUURGH !.... When she turned around, she DID have a face mask on....and I was wearing surgeons' gloves anyway, for when I touched the keys.

Having removed gloves, and put them in a bin.....It was hand sanitation time.

Take care, All (Once again).

Cheers - Phil

Went to the local "24-hr" Tesco at 7am this morning only to find that, as of this morning, they aren't opening until 8am!

Spent a chilly hour watching a glorious sun rise and acting as a human notice board on opening times to a steady stream of punters who couldn't find a note of the opening hours for "ordinary" people.

Huge, glossy, corporate colour signs about times set aside for those at risk/ NHS staff/ Tesco staff prominently displayed and a scruffy handwritten sign on a sheet of brown cardboard for general opening hours.

No paracetamol or hand sanitiser and stocks of the other high profile items much reduced but at least they had some.

After visiting the local supermarket and encountering people who have no idea of social distancing, I now understand what these people hear when government guidance is broadcast ...

Mike....You live in/near a big city ! 

The one thing I still haven't noticed in/near the Cardigan Tesco's is the hand sanitisers, that we're supposed to use.....Or clean the handle on the trolley.
Seeing as I use 'surgical gloves' until I've completely finished 'the shop', that doesn't bother me.

Repeating myself.......

(I don't half feel a complete dork wearing gloves....But, hey....they'll hopefully help.....and once I've thrown those gloves in a bin, I go back to the car and use my own hand sanitiser.....So.. what have I missed ?)

Davy....Did you notice the handwriting on the letters in that clip ?.....They looked like the same person had written them !!!
Were they fake !! .....I think we need to be told.

Cheers - Phil

A Virus response we can all get behind.

Especially Orcs.*

Thai king self-isolates in Alpine hotel with harem of 20 women amid pandemic

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/coronavirus-thailand-king-maha-vajiralongkorn-grand-hotel-sonnebichl-germany-a9431936.html

*They'd have someone to talk to 5 minutes later. And they might paint some figures.

Quote from: Last Hussar on 30 March 2020, 04:15:56 PM
A Virus response we can all get behind.

Especially Orcs.*

Thai king self-isolates in Alpine hotel with harem of 20 women amid pandemic

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/coronavirus-thailand-king-maha-vajiralongkorn-grand-hotel-sonnebichl-germany-a9431936.html

*They'd have someone to talk to 5 minutes later. And they might paint some figures.

Sounds like the most sensible approach so far.

And it would be 10 minutes. They get 30 seconds each