Best wishes to Kenny and all others suffering.

He has only just Sowed Sage , has the Scare Crows/flags up , usually get loads of gulls come in from the coast

I had a dry cough and mild cold for about 5 days back in January.  Could be coincidental.  Incidentally, since I gave up smoking I get about 3 colds per year whereas when I was smoking I only had a cold about every 2.5 years.

Never really had problems before ,Bar not liking the smell of it.............

Took a bit out one year , Rash appeared on hand just Handling it , foul stuff imo 

And have not heard from anyone else I know speaking to friends and family of anybody else who might have it. Media has done a fabulous job on it though,really good.

Never heard of oil seed referred to as autum and planted in spring, its a winter crop in the North, if its spring flowering its put in early autumn, but its all about crop rotation, usually follows barley if spring but never seen oil seed flowing in April here in the North . Of course recent years weather patterns have changed and early drilling can be a gamble with pests and weather.Anyway your a farmer so should know that oil seed is never normally planted in march,perhaps conditions where you are allow it or its a new variety or GM. Anyway it's highly unlikely casemoney knows what's been planted or that he has covid or hay fever.Took the pollen info from the met Office,and most early hay fever sufferers are afflicted by the birch pollen and its still to happen. But your a farmer and know all this. Anyway hope your all covid free, just a mild outbreak of  cabin fever.

Vitimin C has been used in China and New York and has greatly helped reported doctors,huge amounts admittedly but sounds it could be a very good tip to help keep us fit.

Never had the so-called smoker's cough either.

also mildly dodgy stomach on Wednesday

cheers boxing

My son, a university student , recalls a few weeks ago being out and not being able to taste anything .....only just mentioned it.

I'm not coughing.  All my already mild symptons appear to be subsiding though not gone completely.  Have been taking paras, but don't feel that lethargic, (would quite happily go out on my bike for exercise), though am worried for my wife who has been in bed virtually all day and feeling **** and scared.  She had symptons the day before me.  She is coughing a bit (she does have asthma) but no temperature.

Lol..

Hopefully being a denier has lessened the Blow

I've had double pneumonia and this is bad.. So any shortness of breath and difficulty breathing are things to look out for. Dont waste time ring 101. with me several years ago, they wanted to know i couldnt speak a sentence due to my shortness of breath. They sent an ambulance..

Dont waste time by underestimating things, fecking exaggerate Get treatment... I hear these things get worse very quickly.

I spoke to a friend from North Yorkshire yesterday, which has few confirmed cases.  He said a young colleague who went to Cheltenham got it a few days after coming back.  Temperature over 39 after a day, bad coughing and extreme fatigue.  Now recovered, but wasn't even tested.  That made me feel better about the wife, because he hit over 39 after a day.

ps but not 100 % better error in writing

If any consolation Covid-19 sufferers and those who've recovered tend to develop a much better immunity to getting it again in the future, according to experts on tv. Get well soon - this forum needs you and your wisdom and blarney.

sorry my post above was to you case, not clyde sorry

But what might authorities learn if people were tested randomly instead? Some early clues may be found in the tiny country of Iceland. So far, the country has tested 11,727 people—about 3.2% of its population of 364,000. It has done so in part by enlisting the country’s prized biopharma company deCODE Genetics to help tackle the crisis.

Since March 14 deCODE, a subsidiary of the California biotech giant Amgen, has offered a free coronavirus test to any Icelander, sick or healthy, who simply fills out an online form. DeCODE joined forces this month with Iceland’s public health authorities, which had been screening high-risk or sick people for the coronavirus since early February, weeks before even the first Icelander tested positive for the virus.

By screening healthy as well as sick people, say scientists, Iceland and deCODE have assembled a far more accurate picture of COVID-19. And the results are sobering. “The virus had a much, much wider spread in the community than we would have assumed, based on the screening of high-risk people,” deCODE’s founder and CEO Kári Stefánsson told Fortune by phone from his office in Reykjavík on Wednesday. As of Thursday, 737 have tested positive, or roughly 6.3% of all people tested in the country. Of those, 15 are in hospitals, two of them in intensive care. The rest—many of whom are asymptomatic—have been ordered to self-quarantine. 

Stefánsson says the company aims in the end to test about one-third of Iceland’s population—the equivalent of the U.S. testing about 115 million people. He adds that deCODE’s testing has slowed down this week, as the company scrambles to restock its supply of cotton swabs, but will ramp up again within days. “Let’s assume about 3,000 people in the community are infected,” Stefánsson says. The idea, he explains, is to track every case. “To contain the infection for some period of time, we need to screen more, find those individuals, and quarantine them.”
The value of random testing

DeCODE’s model stands in sharp contrast to that of the U.S. and most countries in Europe, where only those who show clear signs of infection have been tested for the coronavirus. “If you don’t have symptoms, you don’t need a test,” Vice President Mike Pence said in a press conference on Sunday. Similar advice comes from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, whose website notes, “[N]ot everyone needs to be tested. Most people have mild illness and are able to recover at home.”

Stefánsson, 70, who was a professor of neurology at Harvard University before returning to his homeland to launch his company in 1996, rejects that strategy. He believes it leaves governments unable to understand how to control the spread of the coronavirus, since they have too little data to track its origins.

Until they do random testing, he says, “they do not have the faintest idea of how and why it is spreading in the society,” he says. “It is as simple as that.”

Stefánsson says that when Iceland began testing people in February, it expected to find infections among those who had returned from skiing trips to the Alps during the winter vacation, because an outbreak was then beginning in Italy and France’s Alpine region. Indeed, public health authorities did find infected vacationers. But Iceland also found a cluster of infections among people who had returned from England, as well as one from the U.S.—each of which presented with a separate mutation of the coronavirus. “As of yesterday, we have sequences for about 380 viruses,” Stefánsson says. The company plans to release the data on those mutations in the form of public databases this week.