M Hancock is a dreamer , " if people follow our advice we will be on top of this in 12 weeks " he is in la la land , people still going to gyms , going to restaurants , pubs wake up man 

EDIT - Spoke to a friend of mine who proudly told me he has been to the gym at 05:30 " not too bad though just under a dozen in the room " I asked if he wiped the equipment down after he used it " no time mate , anyway not my job " of course I told him he was being a twit

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Yes they can be especially the new continuous monitoring ones. I did a test before Christmas and it came out as 32. (Normal should have been 5-7). Was a very worried minute before I realised I had just finished icing Christmas cake! 

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Agreed, however, they are all friends so it shoudn't be too bad for them. All the parents are NHS

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Our neighbour (a very healthy woman in her late 40s) has had Covid-19 for the last eight days. She contracted it skiing in Italy. She says (by text) that it is horrendous. The cough and breathing issues are the worst she has ever had and the fatigue means she hasn't got out of bed in almost a week. She says it is the worst illness that she has ever had.

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I have heard accounts from people who have had it ( TV) it really does sound absolutely awful , the breathing issues really must be quite frightening 

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Yes I have been wondering that. When I first heard that coronaviruses are the same family that cause the common cold that worries me because medical science famously “can’t cure the common cold”. 

The only hope must be that it mutates into a strain that causes less serious illness. 

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Luckily had mine last week. Hb was 42 so quite happy with that. 

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He said “IF people follow our advice...”

What you are saying is some people won’t. Your anecdote is just another in a long list of people behaving selfishly; add the panic buyers to the list and those gathering in large numbers in pubs.

You may well be right but it doesn’t make Hancock wrong, does it??

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HR now off with a fever and cough - Finance Manager now Fever and Cough , that's 7 we have now 

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But doesn't it suggest a higher number of younger people are ending up in hospital than expected? I understand the point about not knowing how far the virus has spread, but I still think it is something that needs watching. Birx flagged it up a couple of days ago at the White House conference so I think it is at least causing some concern.

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No but he also said "most are" , well they aren't , not here anyway , it makes the whole government wrong in the fact that they are being too polite , enforce it 

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Last night was meant to be my daughter’s performance night at stage school with parents watching (and would have been the first one I could go to because I was always at work for previous ones). The performance was cancelled, understandably, but the meeting was still on. Based on how upset my daughter was with the anticlimactic nature of the evening, it would have been better to scrap it altogether.

She is going to school today but already yesterday more than half her class were off. My two-year-old had just started going to preschool for two mornings a week, and now that will stop too, of course.

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8am on a Friday morning and not a single car parked at Evesham station (normally almost full with commuters at this time). Quite eerie!

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Gooner am very sorry to hear your struggles. Unfortunately you must prepare for the business you work in to go to wall. This is the very consequence of the actions of a fair few people who being so so selfish as you illustrated in your post earlier.

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Oxfordshire is one of the worst affected counties - wouldn't be that a lot of people from Oxfordshire go skiing would it?

In Worcestershire, we still only have 8 official cases and our hospitals bear that out, whilst Birmingham hospitals are under pressure. Odd how adjacent regions can have such different profiles - you can of course point out that Worcestershire is a largely rural county and the West Midlands conurbation is densely populated, which of course is true - but Oxfordshire is largely rural too, as is Hampshire (which is also a hotspot).

 

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But as someone else who lives in Worcestershire, I would wager that you do not know a single person who has the contagion.

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R4 Today had the mulleted cretin, Tim Martin, on half an hour ago telling us that people should continue to go to pubs because the Govt guidelines were 'an overreaction'.

The BBC's obsession with 'balance' continues long after Brexit: Having a scientist or subject on? Ensure 'balance' by also inviting a retard onto your show to give his view.

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I don't have the big D but was interested to do some tests on myself. All of my results were under 5.9 mmol/L before meals and under 7.8 mmol/L after meals. However, I noted: 

1) If the blood was smeared in the meter could say "too low to measure" 

2) The second drop generally gives a different result to the first, sometimes notable. At the higher range a couple of hours after a sugar orgy I think the readings where 6.4 and 7 from the same sample

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Hi Gooner - how many people are employed by the business and what line of work is it? Can the business still function at the moment?

Is it possible to work at home?

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Madine Dorries, 62, and her 84 year old mum both recovered fully with no trouble. If they can do it, so can we all

This thing is going to rip anyway. No point trying to hide from it. 

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Have you been to the pub, then?

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Tim is one of our most successful businessmen. He is not a retard

 

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If the government had suspended all flights to Italy back when, no doubt she would have complained like mad that the government had over-reacted and stolen her holiday - but now she would fervently wish that the government had done so.

This is human nature unfortunately - since you cannot prove a negative, if people are stopped from doing something they complain and call it an overreaction, without realising that the measure is actually keeping them safe - that is the message to those who still crowd into public places.

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