Oh to be in Germany!
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nineveh_ukWhere trained medical students chat to people at home with coronavirus and if necessary a team pops round in a taxi to make sure people really are all right and sometimes finds that they are not and takes them into hospital. And thus people who are moving from mild to serious cases are identified, treated, and fewer die. My boss asked if I needed medical treatment, and I didn't quite type *hollow laughter*, but it was tempting. No, I don't need medical treatment, but it would be nice to be not making judgments entirely on ones own with the only option of not doing so being sudden severe breathing issues. Though at least I am lucky because I haven't got any breathing issues, and thus not only is that good in itself, but I could easily tell if I suddenly got worse, something rather more difficult for people who've been having more severe issues for a week or more. As for recovery, there's basically nothing on the NHS website at all about that as a process. It's all "if you've still got a temp after 7 days stay in isolation, otherwise go about your business!"
I suppose the ability to feel irritated is a good sign. The big sign that I'm not well is that I'm not up to doing any ironing, which is my chosen activity to feel virtuous when I've got a stinking cold.
Meanwhile the PM is in intensive care and the government is still downplaying it. Not on a ventilator, apparently, but given that he was apparently doing just fine yesterday morning and running the country from his hospital bed, I'm not inclined to take Michael Gove giving a positive spin as 100% the truth. On a larger scale, I think such downplaying is genuinely unhelpful for population health. The message going out at the moment should be "if you are ill, look after yourself and rest as much as you can to get better" not "if you are ill, soldier on and do everything you can until get worse." Watching TV or sitting in the garden reading light fiction is a civic duty when the alternative is popping to the shops and spreading infection, or making yourself worse so that you need additional resources.
I suppose the ability to feel irritated is a good sign. The big sign that I'm not well is that I'm not up to doing any ironing, which is my chosen activity to feel virtuous when I've got a stinking cold.
Meanwhile the PM is in intensive care and the government is still downplaying it. Not on a ventilator, apparently, but given that he was apparently doing just fine yesterday morning and running the country from his hospital bed, I'm not inclined to take Michael Gove giving a positive spin as 100% the truth. On a larger scale, I think such downplaying is genuinely unhelpful for population health. The message going out at the moment should be "if you are ill, look after yourself and rest as much as you can to get better" not "if you are ill, soldier on and do everything you can until get worse." Watching TV or sitting in the garden reading light fiction is a civic duty when the alternative is popping to the shops and spreading infection, or making yourself worse so that you need additional resources.
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Date: 2020-04-07 06:01 pm (UTC)Also do not make decisions affecting other people when a long way from full strength. It is irresponsible.
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