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Are you worried about contracting coronavirus?

  • Yes, I am absolutely terrified

    Votes: 12 15.6%

  • Yes, I am slightly concerned

    Votes: 35 45.5%

  • I am neither concerned or unconcerned

    Votes: 7 9.1%

  • No, I am slightly unconcerned

    Votes: 6 7.8%

  • No, I am totally unconcerned

    Votes: 6 7.8%

  • Bring back the old poll

    Votes: 3 3.9%

  • Charlotte Awbrey tits out doing the Macarena

    Votes: 2 2.6%

  • I believe VoR is evil

    Votes: 11 14.3%
  • Total voters
    77
Has anyone’s original answer to the poll changed? I think I’m leaning more towards “absolutely terrified” now than “slightly concerned”. Or rather I’m concerned, not just slightly concerned.
 
I think when the poll was originally posted the main worry was whether or not we caught the virus ourselves. So in that sense my answer of neither concerned nor unconcerned is probably unchanged.

But obviously there’s SO much more of a bigger picture now and in terms of coronavirus as a whole, I’d definitely be somewhere in between significantly concerned and terrified.
 
I'm visiting my parents in a few days for the first time since lockdown. I have a 4 hours train journey, and even when everyone should be wearing a mask it's risky. My father wouldn't survive the virus, so that's a good reason to keep my "absolutely terrified" vote. I understood from day 1 that getting the virus isn't just about my own health.
 
I think what terrifies me is the unknown. I agree about not being overly concerned if I contract it myself but the affect it will have on my life, and how long will this actually go on for are worries. And, of course, the concern that it will wipe out thousands more in a few months down the road is something i'm concerned about.
 
I think I'm probably LESS worried about catching it.

More concerned about members of my family catching it, how I'm meant to pay my rent and my career prospects in ~the new normal~
 
What are the UK numbers like now? Or more specifically England really, I’m finding it a lot harder to keep track... and increasingly question how accurate any of them are any way
 
David_5000 said:
I've found this site quite useful.
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Same. That little tick in cases is slightly concerning but obviously of no concern whatsoever to the government. I assume they’ll consider it a success to keep the numbers floating around that region without any major surges for the foreseeable.

Interesting that the case numbers are staying level / increasing again, but the number of hospitalisations has gone down pretty consistently since April. I wonder if it just means they’re getting better at finding the actual cases through testing.

Or is that giving them too much credit?
 
Pingu said:
Interesting that the case numbers are staying level / increasing again, but the number of hospitalisations has gone down pretty consistently since April. I wonder if it just means they’re getting better at finding the actual cases through testing.

Or is that giving them too much credit?
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There'll always be a lag with that, I think we have to wait a couple of weeks to judge it.
 
I get to shove a swab up my nose sometime in the next couple of weeks FOR SCIENCE (well, for the ONS)

Apocalypt Flyer said:
Has anyone’s original answer to the poll changed? I think I’m leaning more towards “absolutely terrified” now than “slightly concerned”. Or rather I’m concerned, not just slightly concerned.
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I've never answered it as I've never really known. Early on I'd have been maybe slightly concerned, back when I thought it was just some flu type thing that would only nudge people off the edge if they were about to die anyway. Then all the info came out. Now I'd be absolutely terrified knowing that I live with my parents and the rather uncomfortable level of likelihood I'd end up killing one or both of them with it. If it was just me on my own, I'd still be concerned but less so.

Meanwhile I go between "slightly concerned" and "absolutely terrified" regarding the implications in the economy, everyday life, poverty, mental health and so on.
 
I'm back in London for a bit and the streets around my house are EMPTY

I didn't think it was second home territory but I guess it MUST BE

I mean, I've only just pitched up myself for the first time since February (bar a medically required few days in May), so maybe I'm answering my own question :D
 
I’m off to the gum clinic in the morning. Sadly I think they’ll make me take the kit home with me, which almost seems a bit pointless going other than to get my bloods taken. Obvs.
 
Dark Carnival said:
Why now Apoca?
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I haven’t been particularly well since late November (Thrombosis in Nov 2019 and now likely Morbus Chron) and COVID came along when I should have started stuff like physiotherapy for the thrombosis leg (which was then shelved), dropped quite a bit of weight and now I’m looking at cortisone treatment for the foreseeable future (not great for the immune system), going to the physio, more doctor’s appointments again but also returning to the office in September and my job contains traveling all across Europe in the winter months. And I’m struggling to piece it all together because so many more variables than sheltering in place.
 
Christian said:
I'm back in London for a bit and the streets around my house are EMPTY

I didn't think it was second home territory but I guess it MUST BE

I mean, I've only just pitched up myself for the first time since February (bar a medically required few days in May), so maybe I'm answering my own question :D
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My areas quite the opposite, it’s positively bustling which I presume is due to everyone working from home. Although i reckon (If my clients at work are anything to go by) most people wealthy enough have gone to the country or decamped to an island for the summer.
 
Lucille said:
My areas quite the opposite, it’s positively bustling which I presume is due to everyone working from home. Although i reckon (If my clients at work are anything to go by) most people wealthy enough have gone to the country or decamped to an island for the summer.
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The difference in behaviour between Dulwich and Earls Court on Saturday was quite striking.
 
Now we need to hurry the fuck up with proper trials, but it's nice to know we might see the back of all this sometime next year!

Would be nice if it was even sooner so we can safely enjoy Christmas and the like, but I know that's not going to happen. Just got to be glad of the positive news and hope we can all hang in there through the winter months.
 
Stolen from Reddit (in turn sourced from gov.uk)

Code: 
Date          Tests processed    Positive    % positive    Deaths
14/07/2020    74,760             398         0.53          138
15/07/2020    112,495            538         0.48          85
16/07/2020    129,616            642         0.50          66
17/07/2020    149,215            687         0.46          114
18/07/2020    157,256            827         0.53          40
19/07/2020    124,094            726         0.59          27
20/07/2020    102,572            580         0.57          11

Always a little more reassuring when put in context with the number of tests processed. It just shows how easy it is to manipulate snapshots of data to tell a story - for example I could see an alarmist tabloidy type just quoting the number of positive tests for 14th-18th and painting a picture of a second wave, when actually the percentage for those 5 days is lower than the 19th and 20th...
 
I had the first CLOSE TO HOME case happen to me this week. A really close friend spent a LOT of Friday in a car with her Father, her Mum goes sick with a temperature on Saturday, they both get tested, Sunday they discover SHE is negative, HE is positive but with absolutely no symptoms! I'm convinced they've mixed the tests up (the parents, that is!) but apparently the Doctor told my friend that apparently up to 30% of tests are falsely negative (no idea if this is hearsay or what) so that the Mum likely has it (!!!!). Anyway, slight issue was that I spent all night Friday with said friend, including spending 2 hours next to her at the pub and breaking lockdown with a lot of cuddling back at a friends' house afterwards. (Ignoring that the two of us went halves on a bag of cocaine I might add, but didn't share any snorting equipment). So yeah, that wasn't fun. We stayed in Sunday (through our own volition, because the government said we had no need to isolate as no direct contact with someone positive) but she tested negative and had the results by Monday, so we're free to do as we please, but she now has to self isolate for two weeks just in case anything develops.

It all JUST SEEMS A BIT MESSY.
 
Ag said:
Are you having a test?
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According to the advice, there is no need because she is negative. Unless she had the virus in active enough numbers to produce a positive result, she can't pass it on.

What is ridiculous is that the advice also says I didn't need to stay in on Sunday. When there was a possibility things could have been very different.
 
Sheena said:
According to the advice, there is no need because she is negative. Unless she had the virus in active enough numbers to produce a positive result, she can't pass it on.

What is ridiculous is that the advice also says I didn't need to stay in on Sunday. When there was a possibility things could have been very different.
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I'd just get a test if I were you..
 
My friends brother has been in and out of hospital testing both positive and negative for the virus. So I think the false negatives are a thing, unfortunately.
 
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