Coronavirus - Remain Calm. Do Not Panic

But you work in the UK and the UK CMO is saying to stay at home unless to grocery shop.  As I said he stands daily behind a podium that says ''STAY AT HOME'' on it.   Its not a case of one doctors opinion.  Any doctors I see interviewed are singing off the same hymn sheet. Stay at home seems to be the overarching message amongst doctors in Italy and wherever its getting bad.That is their advice to Ireland and the UK.  On Prime Time the other night we had an Irish doctor saying and sternly saying to stay at home.  Some of the Irish and UK docs are not singing off the same hymn sheet. Her advice was at odds to Holohan's.

I like Holohan but feel he made a mistake on the Late Late show and I don't agree with everything he says.  His advice could be the complete opposite next week to last Friday and I think it may well be. My common sense tells me to make my own decision to stay out of the way of people.  Lie low.  Some of the advice from doctors on the Late Late has been poor in fact.  They had Dr. Luke O'Neill on a few weeks ago who told everyone to relax and it was not a big deal. He has since totally backtracked and is now calling for the army to come in.  There was another doctor the following week on the Late Late who when asked advised to keep going to coffee shops and pubs as long as you kept your distance.  That was bad advice. People took that advice and ran with it and packed out pubs.

I know a few doctors personally and when in the first few days of March I asked him about the virus he told me it was all a big fuss over nothing. I actually couldn't believe he said it. So while there is good advice out there, there is also terrible advice coming from the people who should be all saying the same thing but still aren't.

They were saying on a Tuesday in NI that the advice was that they should keep the schools open. The next day the advice was to close them.  Why did it make sense one day but not the next? I am hearing stories of people with symptoms being told that they didn't need to isolate even though they had symptoms of coronavirus.  In fact I think it was some doctor in cork hospital who came back from a trip and had symptoms and he rang his boss who told him he didnt need to isolate and come in to work.  He since infected a load of people.  There is also inconstencies in advice.  The doctors on tv were saying on one hand you don't need to isolate unless you are showing symptoms.  Then you hear that you could be infecting other people for days on end before you actually show symptoms as the incubation period could be up to 14 days.

So while I listen to advice for the most part I can also choose which doctors to listen to and who to ignore and to follow my own instincts as to what's best.