Covid Parties 14:48 - Mar 30 with 1640 views | NotSure | If managed properly I think these are a good idea. If you are young or healthy, get it, isolate yourself for 3 weeks and then go and do whatever you want. At least then you can be sure you won't infect anyone else. There's a very small chance your immune system might get over excited and kill you but nothing is truly safe. Government could then produce Covid cards for anyone out and about which says I've already had it and isolated myself. | | | | |
Covid Parties on 14:52 - Mar 30 with 1609 views | Herbivore | Problem is that say a million people who see themselves as young and healthy decide that this is a good idea. If just 1% of them get more severe symptoms and requite hospital treatment that's 10,000 bed spaces required at a time where we're approaching the peak of the outbreak. | |
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Covid Parties on 14:55 - Mar 30 with 1577 views | NotSure |
Covid Parties on 14:52 - Mar 30 by Herbivore | Problem is that say a million people who see themselves as young and healthy decide that this is a good idea. If just 1% of them get more severe symptoms and requite hospital treatment that's 10,000 bed spaces required at a time where we're approaching the peak of the outbreak. |
No in my fantasy world you would have to sign a waiver refusing any medical treatment. But the reward is you can now go anywhere and do whatever you want. | | | |
Covid Parties on 14:56 - Mar 30 with 1572 views | Swansea_Blue | Doesn't sound like a good idea to me, given we're trying to delay the peak and help the NHS cope. In S Korea the main affected age group were the 20-29 year olds. At the start of the New York outbreak, the under 55s were by far the largest group being hospitalised. | |
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Covid Parties on 15:00 - Mar 30 with 1544 views | SouthBucksBlue | I posted a couple of weeks ago about the idea of a clinically controlled program to infect volunteers of the right profile so I agree with this. The card (maybe to wear in a lanyard) would follow. There does seem to be varying opinions as to whether a person can catch it again though. I’d volunteer purely to be a contributor to herd immunity. | | | |
Covid Parties on 15:04 - Mar 30 with 1528 views | ericclacton | I don't know, i'm not sure, i mean your not sure but on the other hand there's a bird. | | | |
Covid Parties on 15:12 - Mar 30 with 1496 views | jeera |
Covid Parties on 15:00 - Mar 30 by SouthBucksBlue | I posted a couple of weeks ago about the idea of a clinically controlled program to infect volunteers of the right profile so I agree with this. The card (maybe to wear in a lanyard) would follow. There does seem to be varying opinions as to whether a person can catch it again though. I’d volunteer purely to be a contributor to herd immunity. |
I'm not a fan of The Right, but even I think that might be going too far. As for the lanyard/card carrying idea, that would be assuming there's all these testing kits going about spare. | |
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Covid Parties on 15:29 - Mar 30 with 1457 views | bournemouthblue | Doesn't this fail on the assumption the immunity actually lasts? It also wouldn't stop the spread of the virus, it creates a false sense of security You could still be spreading it to others through cross contamination [Post edited 30 Mar 2020 15:30]
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Covid Parties on 15:31 - Mar 30 with 1441 views | jeera |
Covid Parties on 15:29 - Mar 30 by bournemouthblue | Doesn't this fail on the assumption the immunity actually lasts? It also wouldn't stop the spread of the virus, it creates a false sense of security You could still be spreading it to others through cross contamination [Post edited 30 Mar 2020 15:30]
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It's a ridiculous idea which the government began implementing themselves a few weeks ago until it was realised isolation was probably a better bet. | |
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Covid Parties on 15:31 - Mar 30 with 1436 views | giant_stow | I think the Chinese are using some kind of app with traffic light colours to help determine if people are 'safe' or not. | |
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Covid Parties on 15:32 - Mar 30 with 1430 views | StokieBlue |
Covid Parties on 14:55 - Mar 30 by NotSure | No in my fantasy world you would have to sign a waiver refusing any medical treatment. But the reward is you can now go anywhere and do whatever you want. |
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Covid Parties on 15:45 - Mar 30 with 1376 views | ElephantintheRoom | Well yes this is not far from officia government policy of old people die anyway and herd immunity until another boffin did a sum on the back of a fag packet. It might actually be more benefial than cooping up 57 million people who havent got the virus in self isolation for three weeks before telling them that they have to carry on for another six weeks. Or not follow your own instructions, catch it and bluster that you're going to run the country by skype because its not that big a deal really Of course IF the government really cared they would have invested in some testing so those who actually have the virus and their contacts could be isolated (if only we had somewhere to isolate them). | |
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Covid Parties on 17:04 - Mar 30 with 1298 views | Guthrum | Very bad idea. Thousands of people somewhere between quite and extremely ill. Others looking after them becoming infected. Hundreds or thousands of cases of pneumonia at once. How do you know you are completely healthy? People (including the young) have discovered unknown health conditions too late and died. There is still very limited understanding of how natural C-19 immunity works, how long it lasts, etc. | |
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Covid Parties on 17:05 - Mar 30 with 1290 views | Guthrum |
Covid Parties on 14:55 - Mar 30 by NotSure | No in my fantasy world you would have to sign a waiver refusing any medical treatment. But the reward is you can now go anywhere and do whatever you want. |
You probably won't be allowed to go to the rest of the world, being now a potential carrier. | |
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