I have not mentioned respirators. I, and others, are discussing ordinary face masks.
Please stop trying to convince people that you are an expert at everything. It is becoming rather tiresome and I think most of us are aware of your high opinions of yourself by now.
I like how he doesn’t give a chit what anyone thinks of him. Wish I didn’t feel the need to make sure I don’t have a hair out of place lol
True, to a point! Certainly, face masks can prevent airborne particles being ejected when breathing, coughing and even sneezing.
Unfortunately, everyone is not going to wear a face mask.
Worse, the virus can be deposited on various surfaces, including door handles and anyone touching such surfaces runs the risk of picking up the virus.
Well said, TessA.
I agree that the ‘C’ word is exceptionally rude. 
Eh?
Just a bit of light relief to lighten the mood - Tess wanted something else to discuss? As in Joke; Joke?? No? Oh dear…let’s get back to that virus then! :shock::shock::shock:
Ah! It all becomes clear now!
Talk about panicking. The chief medical officer for England (Chris Whitty) is saying that the infection rate among the population could rise to at least 80%.
Whitty claimed that up to 530,000 British citizens could die from contracting the virus, but stressed the number “is likely to be lower than that and probably a lot lower than that.”
Make up your bloody mind instead of trying to get yourself in the papers with contradictory statements.
It’s OK I have discovered why the toilet paper shelves in the supermarket are empty.
Mystery over.
The Chinese are far more sophisticated.
If you don’t like to read about covid-19 , then don’t open this thread. Simple, really.
I don’t think Tessa was talking about the thread Bakerman. We are fully immersed in Covid news here. I think al Jazeera is the only news channel not reporting on it.
The numbers get slightly bigger but its not the end of the world yet.
Australia
Cases 39
Recovered 21
Deaths 1
Critical 1
U.K.
Cases 51
Recovered 8
USA
Cases 124
Recovered 9
Critical 7
Deaths 9
Corporations and gov’t dept’s and conventions have begun to close. Schools across the nation are discussing whether or not to close down.
I’m beginning to wonder if this virus is a much worse danger than we are lead to believe. Frankly, I’m a bit scared.
Absolutely! It’s not only the virus we need to be concerned about. Keep a close eye on government dictates, what’s being discussed in the house, political news and smallprint…it’s an ideal opportunity to pass some unacceptable law with minimum public coverage.
Thank you Annie!
It was an observation that our news channels seem to get obsessed by one story, other important events and issues get ignored.
I tend to watch Euronews which covers items from all over the World, much more interesting.
I wonder if our focus is being drawn away from what else is happening sometimes.
Yep! Like the Russian interference report for instance
We are really in the crap now, what with the run on toilet paper
and the growth in electronic news papers what can we wipe our
arses on now???
Donkeyman!The ABC 7.30 Report did a special program this evening on the Corona Virus.
It raised several issues, in some people the symptoms are few or almost non existent so it can be spread easily in a population before serious cases, mainly in the elderly, are obvious. Apparently it has already killed more people in 7 weeks than Ebola killed in 2 years and despite what someone said earlier in this thread Covid19 is actually ten times as deadly as the ordinary flu even if the case death rate is about 1 or 2% as they believe.
Evidently it is more contagious than swine flu, SARS or MERS which had a higher fatality rates but which were not very transmittable between humans.
… and if you think only China has draconian powers to detain, arrest and isolate people read the Biosecurity Act 2015 and weep.
We still get plenty of junk mail through the letterbox! 