QOTW: Has the coronavirus affected your daily life?

[ik9000]

It was reported if you looked hard enough but wasnt front page add it didn't involve sensationalism like empty toilet roll shelves in the supermarket

[aqua1955]

France is from tonight at lockdown

[TooNice]

Good to know - I assume we will also get a refund, but you never know - with all these refunds, some, if not most of the travel companies are going to suffer.

Travel companies, yes but more broadly any compant that relies on tourisms as a big part of their revenue. Airlines, restaurant, hotels etc. etc.

And.. speaking of skiing. A small resort where I first started to snowboard in Japan closed down for good. It was a hard season for them in the first place as Japan is experiencing a very dry season, reducing the number of customers early on, but it was the Coronavirus that finished the job.

[3dcandy]

Travel companies, yes but more broadly any compant that relies on tourisms as a big part of their revenue. Airlines, restaurant, hotels etc. etc.

And.. speaking of skiing. A small resort where I first started to snowboard in Japan closed down for good. It was a hard season for them in the first place as Japan is experiencing a very dry season, reducing the number of customers early on, but it was the Coronavirus that finished the job.

My missus works for a recruitment firm. 3 day working from now on because it was either that or shut as they have had ALL of their contracts cut or are about to be cut...

[3dcandy]

Travel companies, yes but more broadly any compant that relies on tourisms as a big part of their revenue. Airlines, restaurant, hotels etc. etc.

And.. speaking of skiing. A small resort where I first started to snowboard in Japan closed down for good. It was a hard season for them in the first place as Japan is experiencing a very dry season, reducing the number of customers early on, but it was the Coronavirus that finished the job.

Sod airlines... I'm hearing whispers Boing commercial side might go in all of this. Hearing rumours that the 737 max's are being cancelled left right and centre and they're not looking like getting approval anytime soon

[MrJim]

So, I've been affected by Coronavirus quite a bit more since my first comment in here. I've just spent the last 3 days in bed and still feel like death warmed up, just on the computer instead.

I went to bed at 10pm on Tuesday and woke up at 1:30am on Wednesday violently shivering, with a horrible fever and a sore throat. I had gone to bed with no symptoms at all, I felt completely fine, but woke up with the worst fever I've ever experienced.
Then throughout the night and most of Wednesday my symptoms worsened a lot, ended up with the aches and pains, the tight chest and breathlessness, really sore eyes, bad headache at the front of my head.
At this point I rang the NHS number and they said because I didn't have the cough and hadn't travelled from an at-risk area, they weren't testing me.

The next the day the cough arrived, so I was 90% certain I had the coronavirus at this point. I have contacted my doctor since to get a sick line for SSP, but they've advised that because I'm otherwise fit and healthy, I won't be tested. I wish they would so I could know for definite though.

Currently in self-isolation, avoiding my girlfriend in the house. Lying in bed 24/7 occasionally getting up to shower, get water/tablets and generally just existing.

Today is the first day I've felt somewhat human since Wednesday morning.

This is, without a shadow of a doubt, the worst illness I've ever experienced, to the point that I can absolutely understand how it's killing people with health issues/the elderly.

I'm so sorry to hear that you've had the virus, but really happy to hear you're feeling a little better. Your description of the illness genuinely terrifies me. I'm currently self-isolating, as I am in a high-risk category, having impaired breathing. I don't rate my chances if I am unfortunate enough to contract the illness.

[TeePee]

Follow government guidance on isolation, and try to mitigate the spread of the virus. Know where your towel is.

But don't panic too quickly. The latest report from Italy is that up to 75% of infected people experience no symptoms at all. The people experiencing significant complications from this, are people who would also have complications from the Flu. It's bad, because people dying is bad, but it's not an instant death sentence. The doomsayers on the internet are out in force.

[Hoonigan]

I'm so sorry to hear that you've had the virus, but really happy to hear you're feeling a little better. Your description of the illness genuinely terrifies me. I'm currently self-isolating, as I am in a high-risk category, having impaired breathing. I don't rate my chances if I am unfortunate enough to contract the illness.

If it helps at all, I've heard some people have had symptoms so mild that they'd rather have a cold. I'm definitely through the other side now, just super tired at this point.

I've got to self-isolate until the weekend still, in the hope that we can limit infections as much as possible, particularly for people like yourself who it might affect in a worse way.

[TeePee]

If it helps at all, I've heard some people have had symptoms so mild that they'd rather have a cold. I'm definitely through the other side now, just super tired at this point.

I've got to self-isolate until the weekend still, in the hope that we can limit infections as much as possible, particularly for people like yourself who it might affect in a worse way.

Good to hear you're on your way back to full health. I share your pain on the isolation. I'm trying to line up overtime at work, as going home is essentially pointless, and I like money. But isolation in a foreign country is almost as bad...

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

Amazon is going to start restricting non-essential items in April:
https://www.vox.com/recode/2020/3/17...r-restrictions

[MrJim]

If it helps at all, I've heard some people have had symptoms so mild that they'd rather have a cold. I'm definitely through the other side now, just super tired at this point.

I've got to self-isolate until the weekend still, in the hope that we can limit infections as much as possible, particularly for people like yourself who it might affect in a worse way.

Yes it's true the severity of symptoms varies greatly from person to person. It's the additional complications like pneumonia & ARDS (Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome) that seem to be the most dangerous conditions.

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

Fujifilm drug appears to work:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...rus-says-china

Medical authorities in China have said a drug used in Japan to treat new strains of influenza appeared to be effective in coronavirus patients, Japanese media said on Wednesday.

Zhang Xinmin, an official at China’s science and technology ministry, said favipiravir, developed by a subsidiary of Fujifilm, had produced encouraging outcomes in clinical trials in Wuhan and Shenzhen involving 340 patients.

“It has a high degree of safety and is clearly effective in treatment,” Zhang told reporters on Tuesday.
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Patients who were given the medicine in Shenzhen turned negative for the virus after a median of four days after becoming positive, compared with a median of 11 days for those who were not treated with the drug, public broadcaster NHK said.

In addition, X-rays confirmed improvements in lung condition in about 91% of the patients who were treated with favipiravir, compared to 62% or those without the drug.

Fujifilm Toyama Chemical, which developed the drug – also known as Avigan – in 2014, has declined to comment on the claims.

Shares in the firm surged on Wednesday following Zhang’s comments, closing the morning up 14.7% at 5,207 yen, having briefly hit their daily limit high of 5,238 yen.

Doctors in Japan are using the same drug in clinical studies on coronavirus patients with mild to moderate symptoms, hoping it will prevent the virus from multiplying in patients.

But a Japanese health ministry source suggested the drug was not as effective in people with more severe symptoms. “We’ve given Avigan to 70 to 80 people, but it doesn’t seem to work that well when the virus has already multiplied,” the source told the Mainichi Shimbun.

The same limitations had been identified in studies involving coronavirus patients using a combination of the HIV antiretrovirals lopinavir and ritonavir, the source added.

In 2016, the Japanese government supplied favipiravir as an emergency aid to counter the Ebola virus outbreak in Guinea.

Favipiravir would need government approval for full-scale use on Covid-19 patients, since it was originally intended to treat flu.

A health official told the Mainichi the drug could be approved as early as May. “But if the results of clinical research are delayed, approval could also be delayed.”

[Jonj1611]

That would be good if it did as I expect it's already passed all trials etc and is ready to go

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

That would be good if it did as I expect it's already passed all trials etc and is ready to go

We will see,but the amount of progress medical and biological science is making in only a few months is astounding.

[Jonj1611]

I agree, its incredibly quick