Big benefit is that finally the developed world will give a crap about pandemic preparedness and epidemics in the developing world.
sadly this is probably the best of the options we could have had as a highly infectious haemorrhagic disease would have brought everyone to their knees.
pandemics only become more common without control so the fact that this one has now affected those with money rather than the poor buggers no one cares about might force change
I am getting hardly any spam mail in my email account over the last couple of weeks.
Share value for Zoom has increased nearly 250% … the company hit jackpot. 🙄
Zwift and Wahoo are apparently doing very well out of this too.
Exam in June officially cancelled
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...we could have had as a highly infectious haemorrhagic disease would have brought everyone to their knees...
I was thinking the same. Surely no future govt is going to be party to running down the NHS again.
We may look back on this one as a blessing.
Very personal one this one. My lad has had an awful few months which has seen him miss a lot of school. He has been diagnosed with a severe case of anxiety that has been caused by what looks like autism (or lack of diagnosis to date).
He has turned the corner in the last month and is back at school and I dare say acting like an 11year old schoolboy. Typically the school is closing today, however whilst his actual diagnosis will no doubt be delayed in the coming months, the closure of schools means that he'll have a chance to catch up, and all his peers are having a disrupted year.
He also is just getting back on his bike and the postponement of the BMX season may work to his advantage here as well.
A very personal silver lining for our family, but I'll grab on to any positivity given our last 5months.
We have had similar over the last year. Out of nowhere (well almost, she has always been a bit clingy) one of our (then) nine yr olds went from attending school without issue to similar severe anxiety as your boy has experienced. Fast forward a year and she's been getting much, much better (at one point she was only going in 2 or 3 times a week) - she's now in every single day and was even about to go on a weeklong residential (albeit coming home on an evening for some of the week). Now, all of a sudden she is going to miss the final term of primary school and suddenly be thrust into secondary school in September (fingers crossed). Right now we have no idea how this one is going to pan out.
Zwift and Wahoo are apparently doing very well out of this too.
They're not the only ones.
Our suppliers have sold everything with a CPU and a screen - gone. My trade discount has been reduced to "web price mate" aka the same as consumers. Expecting stock early next week, we'll sell whatever we can get our hands on.
Nursing Agency we support is obviously flat out.
Not to mention any retailers who can sell beans, pasta, paracetamol or toilet paper has just had their biggest month in years.
Trails are getting dug...
@johndoh I feel for you, the jump from a tight knit primary school class (well that's what it eventually became for him) to the scale of secondary school was just too much for him.
Talk to the school at the earliest opportunity, ours have been amazing since it all came to a head, but I feel we as parents should may be have got hold of one or two little issues at the start, however my son is good at masking outside of the home. At home you know how he's feeling minute by minute, at the moment he's a chatty little so and so, so much so I want his meds dialled back a bit 🙂
Keynesian economics is back in vogue after several decades in the wilderness.
With the income support package just announced some directors are about to find out how to live on £10k a year. Maybe it will encourage them to take a proper wage from the company and increase the tax income to fund the NHS and other essential services.
p-jay - the response to 'web price mate' will come when we return to some sort of normality;
haven't had any order/enquiries from you - that's right mate, it's a competitive market; know what I mean?
4 day weekend here in Spain, glorious weather.. they usually pass in the blink of an eye but this one has just dragged on and I'm only half way.
100% hello response rate from roadies on the ride today. Never happened before!
Also, I can mince downhill (as usual) but claim I'm taking it easy to prevent an off and a needless trip to A&E!!
Not sure if it's been mentioned above, we may see a big reduction in litter and particularly McD, certainly near me it seems to be the biggest contributor ( I live about 3 miles away from 2 different drive throughs) - we also get some KFC litter too but nowhere near the McD level.
With them shutting we may see a local reduction in that litter.
Hopefully the general amount of litter will also start to reduce, fingers crossed if people start listening to the advice and acting upon it.
Harvey Weinstein has tested positive.
Every cloud, hey.
Harvey Weinstein has tested positive.
In this instance, the coronavirus has decided to self isolate
100% hello response rate from roadies on the ride today. Never happened before!
Likewise all the normally grumpy afternoon folk on the canal towpath and walkers out and about were really friendly.
Meanwhile, noticeably quiet in Surrey with very few planes. Roads quieter in rush hour and near empty outside of that.
While it may be only be a blip, it must make a difference to the environment.
The hope is maybe longer term people will realise they don't need to travel so much. More companies realising they can trust their staff at home.
Looks like the contactless limit is going up to £45. Also encouragement to pay by card if possible.
Could help speed up the transition to a cashless society, with added benefits of saving people and businesses money and reduction in crime.
The governments attitude to the NHS might now change and they'll invest considerably more.
Mini_oab has picked up 4 more houses on his paper round.
Someone might already have posted this, but as someone who works in NHS IT:
HOPEFULLY a step change in how people interact with healthcare services.
From the GP's side, that's better use of tech, from video consultation, text-based e-consultation or better telephone triage. We have a massive issue with low digital literacy in general practice and that needs to change. Before anyone thinks I'm bashing poor GPs when they're down, they're the people I work to support every day, and it's something that's well known and admitted on our patch. Tech can't do everything, but people also shouldn't be as resistant to progress as some of our GPs and their staff are. If that can be coupled with meaningful investment in that tech as well as the staff to deploy and support it and the people using it, double bonus.
From the public side, though, hopefully we might shake this horrible neurotic need to see a GP about every single little sniffle, or the determination to present at A&E if they can't get a face-to-face with a doctor immediately. Common sense has stopped being common, and maybe the "if you've got X symptoms, self-isolate" mentality will carry over beyond this situation. Some things you will always just need hot drinks and paracetamol for, and a watchful eye if it doesn't get better.
Mainly, even as an introvert, I'm hoping the mentality of looking out for friends, family and neighbours more continues. I generally hate being around other people, but having our neighbour offer to pick stuff up for us if we needed to isolate was very touching.
Lots of cheap turbos and treadmills coming up when it's (hopefully) over. 🙂
Don't know about you lot but I'm eating better with more time on my hands.
Breakfast might have been a fried egg sandwich or nowt.
Today is typical of what it is now:
Combined with less drinking I'm feeling a lot sharper.
Folk are not quite as selfish.
More folks look out for elderly/vulnerable neighbours.
More home working.
Technology adopted to help with that above.
These folk that are adamant that they need to run/cycle every day, keep doing it.
Folk learn to bake bread.
and so on.
2 huge positives for me - Loving spending more time with my wife and daughter, after a nice meal, closing blinds, putting phones away, fire on, and a movie is a great way to wash away the day.
Oh, and the other, my 2nd year uni exams are cancelled, maths, control and instrumentation, and Eng design analysis. Beauty. 🙂 Passed on coursework over the year instead.
Win! 🙂
Defo mate, learning laplace transforms at 44 has been a challenge!
Increasing the contactless limit to £45.
Nice article here from Marina Hyde comparing our response to this contagion with Daniel Defoe's description of the 1665 London plague. In summary, regarding whether society would be better afterwards, Defoe suggests "A close conversing with death … would scum off the gall from our tempers, remove the animosities among us …” but eventually concludes "As the terror of the infection abated, those things all returned to their less desirable channel.”
The British way with contagion has barely changed since 1665
What good things could come from this virus?
Covid is quite a nice name for a boy.
I think for a short while we'll all appreciate what freedomws we have a bit more.
For about 24hrs.
The labour leader election thread has drifted away!!
On a very small scale I've had daylight, time and energy to go and do a bit of a litter pick along a local cycle path.
Council tips are all shut just now so had to limit myself to one bag sadly to avoid overloading the household wheelie bin.
The labour leader election thread has drifted away!!
Bugger, jinxed that!
Possibly an understanding that we could actually have helped the homeless all along. That the poor and vunerable could have been looked after as well.
Banks have managed to give charge-free overdrafts - maybe they'll realise that charging money to people who have less than no money is not really the correct or moral thing to do?
Maybe the realisation higher up that the people who 2 months ago were being told were unskilled undesirables are actually the ones holding the entire country together.
Zero-hours delivery driver - ****ing vital. Multi-millionaire hedge fund managers, not so much.
The over 70's/ 'at risk' groups discover online computer gaming.
(And I might find a home for the ps2 now that I no longer have a scart-equipped tv).
well ive just had my bowel scope cancelled, which to me is a good thing. was dreading the 'poo-pipe exploration rod of doom', although its only putting off the inevitable i spose. itll do for now tho.....
It's making it a lot easier to spot which neighbours are hard of thinking. 🤦🏼♀️
Normally, every morning I have to rinse out my sinuses. Had been reasonably sure it was linked to living on one of the most polluted roads in the country.
I just realised this morning that I haven't had to do it for the last 3 days...
Could be linked to the 50% drop in pollution on my street.
https://www.edinburghlive.co.uk/news/edinburgh-news/new-map-shows-edinburgh-seen-17990334
People who slag off mental health sufferers are now realising what it's like to be stuck in the house & what anxiety is like.
We will test potential new medicines in the sickest of patients. If some of them work in those patients, they may go onto to treat a broader population. That is an opportunity.
We will come to appreciate in the UK, that we have not been paying enough for healthcare.
A colleague who works in the acute medicine department of a large hospital told me that she'd only seen one paracetamol overdose in the last 3 weeks, when usually there's at least 2 or 3 a day. Put it down to the panic buying of paracetamol by everyone else.
Unfortunately, she'd seen some ODs on some weird and wonderful stuff that's previously only been confined to textbooks (although not quite as nasty as a proper paracetamol OD).
Guarantee it's been mentioned before but it's so good to have everyone being so polite and respectful of each other. Whether it's in the queue for the supermarket or out on my daily exercise, people are so eager to be polite, respecting personal space and be happy to just get along together.
Guaranteed to last, ooh 48 hours after restrictions are lifted though.
