Coronavirus: Will You Comply With The Government’s Advice?

[naomi24]

Whether you fall into the group classified as ‘at risk’, or are over 70 and advised to remain at home, or younger and fit but requested to abandon your social life, will you comply - and if not why not?

Me? I think we are duty bound.

[jno]

true, sparklykid, you're not going to save the nation by staying home and dying of starvation, and neither am I.

[AuntPollyGrey]

Yes everyone must follow the governments recommendations but this sort of Scaremongering people, without any evidence what so ever, is just as bad as hoarding food in my opinion.

[aelmpvw]

i would comply but as there aren't any home delivery slots available at the supermarkets for a fortnight i'm going to have to venture out to do some shopping for my 92 year old mother

[teacake44]

12.08 Just shows how much notice your taking of the advice with that statement, no one has said that you can't fetch your shopping.

[gness]

Your choice, Chill of course. But I hope your posts stay. If they change the thinking of just one person think of the good that could do. And thank you for what you are doing both at work and on here.....stay safe....Gx

[jackthehat]

I wonder how much time was expended (1918+) arguing whether 'Spanish 'flu ' was correct etymologically?

[jim360]

CD isn't scaremongering -- it's a realistic assessment of where we are to say that the NHS is at (or beyond) capacity, if this gets worse. That's why the government's advice is essential.

Listen to that advice, listen to his warnings, and take the threat seriously.

[teacake44]

What on earth you talking about apg @ 12.12 without EVIDENCE?

[ichkeria]

I didn’t think the current advice was to stay at home unless you were showing symptoms.
And to keep unnecessary social contact to a minimum

[AuntPollyGrey]

why should I listen to the warnings of someone I don't know? The poster could be a retired binman for all I know. I stopped believing everything I hear when someone emailed me last week to say a 'doctor' friend of theirs had told them four kids had died of the Corona virus because they were taking ibuprofen .

[diddlydo]

Sparklykid - if you feel you have to shop every 2 or 3 days to survive, there's something seriously wrong with your housekeeping and organisational skills.

[AuntPollyGrey]

Teacake I have no evidence that chilldoubt works in the NHS. He could be anyone, therefore I will not succumb to scaremongering, nor thank him for all the good work he's doing -my prerogative, others can do and believe what they will.

[ichkeria]

That seems a bit drastic: if we believed the nonsense people email we’d be very badly informed

[AuntPollyGrey]

icheria yes quite. Except this person who emailed me is supposed to be intelligent.

[jim360]

There is evidence that ibuprofen treatment for Covid-19 is harmful rather than helpful. In that, at least, the emailer APG refers to had a point.

[teacake44]

12.21 APG, So you don't see the evidence on TV, you don't see the evidence in Italy, or anywhere else in the world? Doctors in Italy have already said they are having to choose who stands a better chance of living if they treat them, and who their going to let pass away. How much more evidence do you require.?

[AuntPollyGrey]

Teacake 'sigh...'
Of course there is evidence of the corona virus. I have no evidence chilldoubt works in the ITU unit of a NHS hospital, so I will refuse to believe people are going to be unplugged after 72 hours if they show no improvement. Everyone else of course is free to believe what they want.

[AuntPollyGrey]

Teacake, triaging patients as to who has the best chance of survival, and actually pulling the plug on someone already being are two very different scenarios. Morally and Legally.

[naomi24]

//What cobblers, we have to go shopping. //

We do, but the advice is to mix with other people as little as possible. Shopping every two days isn't essential and neither is going to the pub. I wouldn't have thought that was difficult to understand. It's just common sense.

[AuntPollyGrey]

'already being treated'