The Coronavirus thread.

[Rodcx500z]

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Do you honestly believe Kyle would leave Pep to join Clippety Klopp, he is doing fine, he joined in 2017.

I wont burst your bubble Chippy by putting a proper trophy list on :tinhat:

 

[MyQul]

Interesting article from the BBC on why being a fat git massive improves your chance of dying from C19

This question has been the subject of many studies as experts try to work out the answer.

• In a study of nearly 17,000 hospital patients with Covid-19 in the UK, those who were obese - with a body mass index (BMI) of more than 30 - had a 33% greater risk of dying than those who were not obese.
• A separate study of NHS electronic health records found a doubling of the risk of dying from Covid-19 among people who were obese. If other health conditions linked to obesity such as heart disease and type 2 diabetes were also taken into account the risk would be even higher, the researchers said.
• And a study of critically ill patients in UK intensive care units found that nearly 34.5% were overweight, 31.5% were obese and 7% morbidly obese (a total of 73%), compared to 26% with a healthy BMI

Why is being obese a risk?
The more overweight you are, the more fat you're carrying, the less fit you are and the lower your lung capacity. This means it is a bigger struggle to get oxygen into the blood and around the body. This impacts on the heart and blood flow too.

"Because people are more overweight, they also have a demand for more oxygen. So that means their system is actually undergoing greater pressure," says Prof Naveed Sattar, from the University of Glasgow.

During an infection like coronavirus, this can be serious.

"Eventually the obese body becomes overwhelmed by the lack of oxygen getting to the major organs," says Dr Dyan Sellayah, from the University of Reading.

That is one reason why overweight and obese people in intensive care are more likely to need assistance with breathing and support with kidney function.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-52561757

 

[Northern_Brewer]

And a study of critically ill patients in UK intensive care units found that nearly 34.5% were overweight, 31.5% were obese and 7% morbidly obese (a total of 73%), compared to 26% with a healthy BMI

Which sounds impressive until you recall the obesity data I linked to a while back, which says that among other things, 78% of men aged between 45 and 74 are obese or overweight (and eyeballing the graph, around 75% of men >75). Guess who are most likely to find themselves in ICU for Covid?

I'm not saying it's not a factor, but it's not the most helpful reporting.

 

[Northern_Brewer]

Nice visualisations of how quickly different countries responded to their first deaths :

Compare Belgium which has been pretty badly hit, with NZ which hasn't. It's almost like speed of political response is rather less important than politicians of all sides would like to make out.

And the linked page from Oxford has lots of other data.

 

[Chippy_Tea]

I wont burst your bubble Chippy by putting a proper trophy list on :tinhat:

All credit to your team for what you have won in the past but Clipperty wasn't the manager then and Pep wasn't ours what he has done for our club since he arrived is more than i could have dreamed of remember all the rag back pages saying he won trophies with ready made teams (Barcelona, Bayern Munich) and he would fail at City i am so glad he proved them wrong.

 

[MyQul]

Nice visualisations of how quickly different countries responded to their first deaths :
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Compare Belgium which has been pretty badly hit, with NZ which hasn't. It's almost like speed of political response is rather less important than politicians of all sides would like to make out.

And the linked page from Oxford has lots of other data.

I thought they were hop flavour spider graphs upon first glance

 

[Chippy_Tea]

5 live reporter - "We have to get football back to lift the people"

I like to watch football when i can but nothing could be further from the truth hoe can you keep a safe distance playing football, are they going to give the players red cards if they spit, are they going to force the medical staff, kit men/women, chefs, groundsmen/women and all other staff to go back to work just because they are worried clubs will not survive, unbelievable.

 

[Chippy_Tea]

 

[VW911]

I thought one of the good things to come out of the pandemic would be an end to football... (In any way, shape or form)...

 

[MyQul]

I thought one of the good things to come out of the pandemic would be an end to football... (In any way, shape or form)...

You may well get your wish. I was listening to the radio (I think yesterday) and the various football leagues are desperate for the lockdown to end because they're losing so much money which may cause a number of clubs to fold

 

[VW911]

I've always said "Football is a business, not a sport"...

 

[Chippy_Tea]

I've always said "Football is a business, not a sport"...

It used to be a sport for the working man/woman its now a business and is unaffordable to most working men/women.

 

[MyQul]

I've always said "Football is a business, not a sport"...

Your right. You only have to look at the billions the premier league makes

 

[MyQul]

and is unaffordable to most working men/women.

Unless your a support worker and can go in to watch Arsenal for free

 

[trueblue]

Unless your a support worker and can go in to watch Arsenal for free

So what have support workers done to deserve that.

 

[MyQul]

So what have support workers done to deserve that.

If you have a disabled client who has a season ticket and needs support to get to and into the match - carer's go free.

 

[trueblue]

If you have a disabled client who has a season ticket and needs support to get to and into the match - carer's go free.

What I meant was why have carers got to suffer going to watch the ar*e.

 

[MyQul]

What I meant was why have carers got to suffer going to watch the ar*e.

At least I get paid to do it

 

[Cheshire Cat]

UK 'to bring in 14-day quarantine' for air passengers UK 'to bring in 14-day air passenger quarantine'

Only 3 months late.

 

[Rodcx500z]

It used to be a sport for the working man/woman its now a business and is unaffordable to most working men/women.

I would say Liverpool, Newcastle are 2 clubs with massive local support, try getting a season for them no chance, half the population only go to away games