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You don’t have to do much to get banned over there by the looks of it

Time will tell, I’m a key worker living in London so social distancing is almost impossible so it’ll be interesting to see anything comes from that or not I’m neither a scientist or conspiracy theorist and for the time being am saved from the boredom and frustration others are experiencing, but have read various reports about the virus mutating and causing other strains of the virus so that might be your answer right there. It seems for every person who thinks this’ll blow over quickly there’s someone who thinks this won’t so guess we’ll just have to see how it plays out

I’m not a scientist but there’s two possibilities there, either it was treated as seasonal flu as nobody had even heard of covid-19 until February in this country and so early victims were assumed as having died of seasonal flu, or shortly after reaching Europe the virus mutated into a more serious strain, if i caught it I’d have caught the original strain which could be less serious. It’s interesting that they’re currently looking at the champions league game between Atlanta and Valencia as a possible reason for the two hotspots in Italy and Spain, this game was apparently played in Milan which has a connection with Wuhan I was hospitalised with inflamed lymph nodes shortly after the persistent cough finished, the consultant told me it was as a result of my body working overtime to fight an infection but they had no idea what the infection was, i spent three day’s being pumped with antiviral drugs and antibiotics and started feeling better about a week later

Not necessarily wishful thinking as this article will explain, the information comes from a legit media source rather than a fake news website https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.ccn.com/coronavirus-patient-zero-may-have-started-pandemic-in-november-or-earlier/ I’m not really one for conspiracy theories but my company had a significant percentage of Chinese customers up until this broke around Christmastime, around that time quite a few staff got sick myself included and i ended up being hospitalised a few days after attending the QPR away game, for me it’s too much of a coincidence

So when people are found to be immune how are they meant to highlight that status so they can resume their normal life? Wear a badge perhaps?

Not exactly if waking up at 3am counts as a holiday, whilst passenger numbers are falling off a cliff lots of staff are being forced into self isolation which is one reason for the situation in London where people (some who aren’t meant to be there) are faced with busier trains

Passenger numbers have fallen off a cliff, i drove a train on Sunday and the passengers could’ve had a carriage each which is extreme social distancing, and had the government not stepped in the private operators would’ve just handed back the keys Does mean technically I’m now a government employee

I went to one earlier that was operating a system of only 4 customers allowed in at a time, was in East London though

Like i said at some point down the line decisions need to be made whether we want to view things emotionally or take a more calculated approach, at the moment it’s a bit of both so nobody’s happy

On the whole i agree with you but the problem is people get quite attached to their mother or father or grandparents and would rather they got to spend longer with them. I don’t think we’re at the stage yet where we should write off a significant number or people I remember thinking last week about how this virus probably did this guy with MND a favour as that’s truly an horrendous condition to have but then saw his widows reaction and neither he nor she was ready to say goodbye and who can blame them Maybe in the future we will have to decide between leadership that looks at things emotionally or someone who’s more calculated as they’re pluses and minuses to both. But not yet. As a side note as someone who’s classed as a key worker so has to go into work it’s interesting watching how people who are having to stay at home are gradually getting more irritable with each other and that’s definitely reflected in this forum

In fairness the vast majority of us only have to look inside our little bubble whereas they have to look at the bigger picture, that said he probably could work on his people skills a bit

Another attempt of a positive spin, if you’ve had this since Christmas you could’ve already had the virus and you have a pretty good immune system, on the negative side it’s another reason to need to self isolate if you get that now

Those Japanese ones are awesome you could happily spent longer on it than you need to and then hardly need any toilet paper if at all

Could be slightly encouraging news

When he was mayor of London the thing Boris was good at was surrounding himself with people who knew their stuff, and he seems to be doing the same as prime minister but obviously having to consultant with several advisors is time consuming

Yup I’m convinced i had it then

Might be dawning on those in authority that lots of people had the virus before it even had a name

I did try but because i don’t work for great western my company didn’t like it

I’m a train driver and this morning drove a six carriage train from Oxford to London and had a total of 21 passengers, one thing I’ve noticed as i commute in from East London is this has really highlighted social inequality (never thought I’d say that on a football forum) whilst there’s those who obviously can’t do their job at home there’s even more than can’t afford to stay at home

Sensible decision but it looks pretty clear it’s the Premier League making all the decisions and everyone else following along behind

Yeah it was weird though as i was struggling to walk and stand but was able to cycle with no problems at all and i certainly don’t do any weightlifting I ended up spending three nights in the Royal London hospital being pumped with drugs i don’t remember which and it took another week of antibiotics before the lymph nodes starting returning to normal.

I actually got hospitalised a few days after going to the QPR game, this was two weeks after the Christmas flu coughing finally stopped, initially i was diagnosed with a strangulated hernia but a ct scan revealed all the lymph nodes in my groin had become inflamed and the consultant told me that they obviously been working overtime to remove an infection. At the time of being hospitalised news about Covid 19 was only starting to appear so no connection was made but the more i think of it and remember the symptoms i had a Christmas such as wheezing that made me sound like a dog the more convinced i am it was around a lot earlier than people think To me that’s a positive thing because we could be hitting it’s peak a lot earlier than forecast and also a lot of people will have had it and now be immune which Is what the herd immunity thing is all about

It didn’t make sense that we were being told this virus only started in Wuhan at the end of December and just over two months later it’s made its way around the world and having so many well known people being tested positive On the plus side they’re closer to herd immunity than they thought and make the doomsday scenario we keep hearing about less likely

So kind! I did Charlton away Boxing Day and managed not to wipe out those in the away end, it was literally a case of felt alright one day and was sick the next Joking aside since posting that article on Facebook quite a few people have said similar that they had those symptoms from November/December onwards, this helps explain why it looks like there’s been a massive jump in cases when it’s actually been going on a lot longer than people thought, it also means a lot of those currently panicking at home with their toilet rolls are probably immune now to the virus

Lots of people myself included think this virus has been around quite a bit longer than people think, I’m convinced i had Covid 19 over Christmas as i had almost the exact same symptoms but obviously nobody knew it existed at the time I found this online apologies my computer skills only go as far as copying and pasting a link https://www.ccn.com/coronavirus-patient-zero-may-have-started-pandemic-in-november-or-earlier/