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No it isn't We use buses when we go to town but feel very unsure whether to go or not at the moment, Not only the transport of course but people are so careless when they cough and sneeze. We actually wear gloves when we use the bus, even before this latest virus. But if you have to use public transport for work it must be a nightmare. This latest in the southampton area is a worry for us as we have family in Swaythling.

Not too good for those of us who use public transport :-(

I couldn't find this thread before so I will delete my other one now and add what I said to here.


Does anyone else find it really quite frightening how many people one man has been able to potentially infect with the virus

. And I was also amazed that the virus can live on things like door handles and bus poles etc for 9 days, much longer than the flu virus

This has only reached the local rag so far:

https://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/18224218.st-marys-independent-school-southampton-closed-evacuated-coronavirus-fears/

The school has been evacuated. The children (and parents) potentially with coronavirus are self-isolating - but the other children are being sent home :-S
How many of those children are in the (undetectable) early stages?

Kay .......

yes

Plus there was the H1N1 outbreak in ver recent years.

MERS is another one, that originated in the Middle East (hence the ME), and was a few years after SARS

Havnt we had the Hong Kong Flu or some such name in recent years.?

The Spanish Flu pandemic infected 500 MILLION people between January 1918 and December 1920. It is believed that 50 million, or possibly as many as 100 million, died.

They now know that it was caused by the H1N1 virus, and that it originated in northern China in late 1917 (EDIT to correct Date) before travelling around the world.

EDIT:- it seems that it is still not certain where this virus originated! It is called the Spanish Flu because Spain was not involved in WW1 and therefore newspapers were free to report anything. Media in the countries involved in the war were not permitted to print certain things, including the number of dead and affected by this new flu. Therefore it was assumed that the virus originated in Spain because that was the country reporting it!!


My grandfather was in what is now modern Iraq with his MGC unit when he was hospitalised with "flu" in very late 1917. He was only in hospital for about a week then went back to his unit in the field. I've occasionally wondered if he was one of the lucky ones who got "Spanish flu" and survived, or whether it was "ordinary" flu. He was taken from the Field Hospital to a proper Hospital in Basra.

The Spanish Flu Pandemic of 1918.

a wildfire virus that killed thousands upon thousands worldwide.

During the 1990s we had a visit at the hotel from the men in dark suits. In the case of a pandemic we were designated the operations centre,

The MOD base where my hubby was posted was designated as the morgue!!!

That was the level of preparedness :-0

The third case in Ontario involves a student from China who at first had a negative test for the virus, but here they're doing 2 tests to be sure, the second test came back positive but only just so very mild. She's recovering at home.

I've seen a couple of reports out of China that it is mainly elderly men with other health problems who are dying.

4th case for Canada - 3rd in Ontario. 1st case the man is now home from the hospital and being monitored at home with his wife. Shows that if caught early and treated it can be dealt with if you have no other health problems. Hopefully, that happens for all....highly doubt it though.

Glad I’ve not got any outings planned. Horseman’s is a local company.

Hope the drivers are all ok and don’t bring anything back with them.

I wondered about that. I see all the coaches have to go to be deep cleaned after use. I think the drivers all volunteered for the job. I wondered if there was extra money offered to those who drove. And, I also wondered, will those drivers now have to go into quarantine?

Watching the coaches heading out from Brize Norton, to right of windscreens person in full protective gear, to left and very slightly in front coach driver, not even a face mask. :-(

So many questions!

Is it me or does anyone else think it the height of stupidity, if not worse, that the hotel in York where the people tested positive with Coronovirus were staying, has remained open. Their room has been sealed off but the hotel has remained open. (they were taken ill on Wednesday) what about other visitors out and about sight seeing?
That is what I have read anyway. They have been unable to get any information.

https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/panic-arrowe-park-nurse-describes-17663955


It is just a thought of course ( not being one for conspiracy theories) but the Wirral being a peninsula as such, 'could' be isolated if push came to shove, close the roads out to Cheshire, close the tunnels, stop the ferries......

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7950147/Wirral-residents-react-news-Britons-Wuhan-quarantined-local-hospital.html

All of the 83 people that will be stopping at the Arrowe Hospital will be in STAFF quarters.

So should be comfortable seeing as the nhs management have kicked the staff out of their little hideaways.

It's not Rose, my daughter(in the area) says if the virus doesn't kill them the hospital grime and germs will. :-0

My weekend phone call from 'auntie E' won't be fun! She lives near Arrowe park hospital where the returnees are to be taken. I hope the hygiene will be better than she said it was on the ward when she was last there :-0