Doc I fear tomorrow this school closure will turn into a farce.
Originally Posted by: Heavy Weather 2013
It will be - but kudos to the Scots for closing entirely. Exams can, after all, always be taken at a later date, however stressful that may be - whereas we only get one go at slowing the spread of this thing. (Interesting how social distancing has yet again been emphasised by the PM; I'd bet there are tens of thousands of people in schools in England tomorrow not following that advice).
Meanwhile to counter the "OMG, someone in their 30s is seriously ill!!!" stories doing the rounds, here's one about the head of BT's experience. I think for people's mental wellbeing it's good to see these stories too. He's 53, for what it's worth.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2020/03/22/bt-boss-philip-jansen-first-felt-like-mild-cold-had-virus/?li_source=LI&li_medium=li-recommendation-widget
Philip Jansen has been lucky. “I actually had relatively mild symptoms,” says the BT boss down the line from his home in Devon. “I had a cough, a few aches and pains, a bit of a headache and even a few chills. But I never had a temperature. So I never felt at any stage that I was really unwell. I just felt that I was a little bit under the weather. I assumed I had a mild cold.”
Since the truth was revealed, Jansen has been self-isolating alongside his wife and three of their children. All have caught coronavirus, he believes, and all are recovering. The origin of the family outbreak is a mystery. Jansen, 53, had been on a ski trip with friends, “but not to a place where it existed”.
He was the first big business figure to publicly reveal he had tested positive, on Thursday March 12, after a few days of symptoms and meetings including one with the Culture Secretary and several of his industry rivals.
A week later he is on the mend, with a note of fatigue in his voice but no cough. Jansen has been working throughout his illness, he says, and plans to be back at BT headquarters in London on Monday.