News Worldwide impact of the novel coronavirus (covid-19)

[Ronin]

Bidets for the win.

Yeah. Friends in the Middle East find the TP thing bit ridiculous, as so many other ways of hygiene part of daily routines / trads years long.

Although the panic seems to have other aspects, culturally, the same impact.

Over there reach to a doctor, unavaibility of doctors even with the very sick, food & if it's safe brought from the outside and, of course, the damn dust / how much is normal respiratory distress and how much is new flus, and how to rule out the difference, especially in medical advice in far distances even locally situations.

 

[DharmaGirl]

Plant some Comfrey, the leaves are a great substitute for TP. I'm with the bidet though.

 

[Chris-duck]

So because I work at a hospital I woke up to three texts today basically saying "Thinking of you. Stay safe xx" It took me a good hour to work out that probs nobody died n it's just this coronavirus shit.

It's spreading quickly because people aren't actually unwell when they have it. Flu spreads slower cos people get sick from it so stay home. The melodrama is the issue. It's like a common cold. Like in old sick people it develops into a chest infection, in healthy people it's a mild sore throat n dry cough. It is basically the common cold. I'm loving the cheap flights but I'm also watching the world freak out like "... ?"

 

[LuckiLee]

And it is now in my neighborhood. People at Burger King and White Castle tested positive. Eeek!!

My nephew is a Police Officer and they are no longer allowed to transport people to the hospital or go there at all. We can not have our police force out sick!!

 

[Chris-duck]

We can not have our police force out sick!!

But medical/nursing staff are still expected to work. Right? It doesn't matter what happens. Hospital staff gotta keep working. So where's the logic?

Rules like that are actually making life harder for hospital staff. Police not being able to escort patients to hospital overworks paramedics. It makes no sense

 

[lostforgottensoul]

Holy f*cking school closures! I work for a nationwide internet service provider (internet and VOP phone repair). No internet, no school (kids and adults). Seems to be more NY then anywhere but f*ck!

And it is now in my neighborhood.

One of the men with it in Florida is in my county.

 

[LuckiLee]

@Chris-duck, it makes sense to me. Do you have any idea what would happen if the police force was out of commission? I live 15 miles from Detroit.

 

[scout86]

It would be bad if the people who work in hospitals were out of commission too, but I'd like to think they have at least SOME kind of potential for minimizing their actual exposure. (Maybe not?)

 

[Chris-duck]

@Chris-duck, it makes sense to me. Do you have any idea what would happen if the police force was out of commission? I live 15 miles from Detroit.

Okay. So are police more important than medical professionals? Cos if so, then sure, they can go ahead n limit their exposure. N if not then they should do their job. As they usually do.

 

[LuckiLee]

No. But they protect the masses without any protection. People in the medical field dealt with AIDS, SARS, Ebola, Zica, and on and on.

Not going to argue my point. ✌

 

[Sideways]

Hospitals in first world countries have pandemic response plans that they can (and some have already) enact when numbers of infected start to go up.

I'm not entirely sure why the police have been used to transport people to hospital in the past, @LuckiLee . Seems to me that the people best equipped to do that safely (which includes keeping staff safe from infection) are paramedics. Police aren't trained, or equipped with PPE, to be transporting people to hospital when we're experiencing a virus pandemic.

Protecting our frontline services right now has to be a priority. So, if masks and gloves are in short supply, then they go to the medical staff (not police). The flip side of that? Is that people who aren't medical staff, and equipped with medical training and medical PPE, aren't being asked to step into medical or paramedic roles.

Asking police, or anyone without adequate training or PPE, to act as frontline medical personnel, during a pandemic, would seem to be pretty irresponsible.

 

[Chris-duck]

I'm not entirely sure why the police have been used to transport people to hospital in the past

Mental health issues mostly. Like if a welfare check was done by police n the person isn't safe.