International COVID-19 Updates & Discussion 2

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GrootBaas

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Trying to get someone tested who traveled through Londen and Frankfurt over the last 5 days AND she is showing flu symptoms this morning (sore throat and completely stuffed nose), but the Mediclinic nurse says that if you don't have basically all the symptoms (fever, shortness of breath, dry cough, sore throat etc) they are not going to test as they already cannot keep up. She told me just now that the tests should take 12 hours but the backlog is growing and they are up to 72 hours already. The only advice is isolation for 2 weeks.

On Monday they were still testing pretty much everybody that traveled and now they are overwhelmed.
 
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R4ziel said:
So you are one of those people that when your house starts burning will say "Meh, its just a curtains corner, I can still get into the house and everything is fine, no need to worry about it now"
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/yawn
 
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R4ziel said:
So you are one of those people that when your house starts burning will say "Meh, its just a curtains corner, I can still get into the house and everything is fine, no need to worry about it now"
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GrootBaas said:
Trying to get someone tested who traveled through Londen and Frankfurt over the last 5 days AND she is showing flu symptoms this morning (sore throat and completely stuffed nose), but the Mediclinic nurse says that if you don't have basically all the symptoms (fever, shortness of breath, dry cough, sore throat etc) they are not going to test as they already cannot keep up. She told me just now that the tests should take 12 hours but the backlog is growing and they are up to 72 hours already. The only advice is isolation for 2 weeks.

On Monday they were still testing pretty much everybody that traveled and now they are overwhelmed.
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They are already overwhelmed as this virus is already spread among the general populous. Why the need for testing now is beyond me. Treat those who need medical intervention, if not, stay home and get better. The testing itself is now overwhelming the system and just causing more panic. As it stand we'll already never know the true extent of the spread. It's beyond that now.
 
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Pitbull said:
You can quote the same stupid thing all day long.

Does the hospitals have the capacity to serve today's needs? Yes.
Now get back to work and stop crying.
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You must have a sh!tload of debt.

I have enough money for today so I will spend it all today. Who cares how much money I need next week. I have enough for today.
 
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Pitbull said:
You can quote the same stupid thing all day long.

Does the hospitals have the capacity to serve today's needs? Yes.
Now get back to work and stop crying.
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Today you have 2000 infected and 2500 beds. Next week you have 2500 infected. The following week its 3000. And so on.
 
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Pitbull said:
Complains about hospital space then shows me a graph of confirmed cases...

Confirmed cases has nothing to do with the requirement to be hospitalised or even requiring medical intervention.

Maybe educate yourself
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Basic logic entails that as the confirmed cases rise so too will the severe and critical cases, the ones that will require hospitilisation.
 
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