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Although not perfect and some people are dicks, there is a huge amount of positive change. My workplace has gone from 3500 mainly onsite workers to a skeleton crew of 120 to keep vital systems running with everyone else working from home. That is an enormous number of reduced contacts from train, bus commutes and in the office. Personally I've only been out for running and walking from my doorstep and to the supermarket once.
It's a risk and numbers game, the difficult part is that it will take 10+ days for impact of changes to play through. If the current measures don't work I think we'll be straight into a 14/21 day total movement ban as a firebreak measure
A thought – given the obvious concerns about safe distancing recommendations being ignored by many people, what about ‘approved people’ broadcasting a standardised message by loudhailer in public places?
Approved people could be police or designated council employees; standardised message to be produced by gov.
The Government don't know what the message is either.
https://www.buzzfeed.com/alexwickham/10-days-that-changed-britains-coronavirus-approach
All sorts of allegations in there about who is controlling things (most leading right back to Dominic Cummings).
If the current measures don’t work I think we’ll be straight into a 14/21 day total movement ban as a firebreak measure
I think that is where we should be right now as it is coming so lets get it done now and buy some time and save some lives. Joris is doing what he accused Corbyn of for months (dither and delay)
Can you believe it, an ice cream van has just pulled up outside and 4-5 sets of kids and parents are queuing up. Wheres the brains?
We're even isolating parcels in the front porch for 24 hours now, then carrying them out the back, opening them and putting the cardboard straight in recycling bin then washing our hands under the outside tap before coming into the house with the new item. It may seem extreme but I'm asthmatic and Mrs K has Lupus.
I am going to admit that I was one of the "its just a flu" people although we did take all the precautions ahead of when they became mandatory because of the above, but looking at the Italy reports we all need to be taking this very seriously, as we are going lose loved ones.
We’re even isolating parcels in the front porch for 24 hours now
Does the virus actually survive that long on inanimate objects?
We’re doing “next day” for our quarantine box. 24 hours is playing it extra safe.
Hmm… I’m changing to Kryton’s approach:
…viable virus could be detected up to three hours later in the air, up to four hours on copper, up to 24 hours on cardboard and up to two to three days on plastic and stainless steel.
I've read most of this thread, most of the lockdown bike ride thread, which are probably the sources (or links to) of most of what I know/think I know about it. Have been in Wales, the middle of nowhere last week, and returned home now back to an E. Kent seaside town. Been given option to WFH. Wasn't keen, earlier last week but expected to be in the minority. Yesterday I was starting to want to WFH but found out nobody else is. That and the diverse opinions on here, the indecisive government, I'm finding it difficult to know what to do for the best. Will probably go in Monday for a chat with work, and setup stuff to help work from home.
Will probably go in Monday for a chat with work
Please think of others, and don't.
Anyway, good news content from Snopes:
– China has closed down its last coronavirus hospital. Not enough new cases to support them.
– Doctors in India have been successful in treating Coronavirus. Combination of drugs used: Lopinavir, Retonovir, Oseltamivir along with Chlorphenamine. They are going to suggest same medicine, globally.
– Researchers of the Erasmus Medical Center claim to have found an antibody against coronavirus.
– A 103-year-old Chinese grandmother has made a full recovery from COVID-19 after being treated for 6 days in Wuhan, China.
– Apple reopens all 42 china stores,
– Cleveland Clinic developed a COVID-19 test that gives results in hours, not days.
– Good news from South Korea, where the number of new cases is declining.
– Italy is hit hard, experts say, only because they have the oldest population in Europe.
– Scientists in Israel likely to announce the development of a coronavirus vaccine.
– 3 Maryland coronavirus patients fully recovered; able to return to everyday life.
– A network of Canadian scientists are making excellent progress in Covid-19 research.
– A San Diego biotech company is developing a Covid-19 vaccine in collaboration with Duke University and National University of Singapore.
– Tulsa County’s first positive COVID-19 case has recovered. This individual has had two negative tests, which is the indicator of recovery.
– All 7 patients who were getting treated for at Safdarjung hospital in New Delhi have recovered.
– Plasma from newly recovered patients from Covid -19 can treat others infected by Covid-19.
FoD is the busiest I’ve ever seen it, full of groups of obviously non-cohabitants clutching maps and not saying hello when you pass.
We need barricades at the bottom of Littledean Hill. Joking.
If you can wfh then please do.
I have to go in some days because of my role but I am planning on being in a lab which has good air handling and will be minimising any time spent in the office.
have told all my line reports to do the same and basically I don't care about the hours they work, just get the work done they need to on site and then get out
Will probably go in Monday for a chat with work, and setup stuff to help work from home.
Phone work instead and stay at home. If you need to go in to collect anything why not get someone else to get it ready for you so you can run in & grab.
My job can’t be done at home but I’m going back in on Tuesday after 2 weeks leave (a snowboarding trip that didn’t happen). We’re on reduced staff, from maybe 15 in the building usually down to 4 or 5. And only 3 of us at a time mingling. Although handover between shifts will be a bit of an issue, as 3 of us come in to replace the offgoing shift.
Friston was heaving with walkers and riders and a few groups of families ☹️ Seemingly not understanding social distancing.
Ended up binning a walk with the parents today, the park was going to be far too busy.
I had thought about the quarantine of parcels thing, specifically with regards to food delivery. How on earth can you be expected to quarantine all the stuff that needs to go straight in the fridge/freezer?
I just chucked it in there, there's limits to what is practically possible. As a man with ocd, I keep telling myself it's a virus, not nuclear waste.
If anyone needs some light relief I highly recommend this twitter feed.
https://twitter.com/Pepys_Diaries/status/1241107411592785921?s=20
This is good too
https://twitter.com/MarkFrancois12/status/1241258162650525699?s=19
https://twitter.com/MarkFrancois12/status/1241254756103970816?s=19
Feels like a bank holiday with the number of people around. Local ice-cream place open and place rammed with families and elderly couples. I know most people are stupid but this takes the biscuit. Or the Flake, if you will.
Wandered into town earlier to get some bits of food and it was busy, slightly less busy than a normal Saturday but still surprising.
definitely limited observance of distancing.
we will be locked down within 2 weeks at the most
The lockdown has to happen this week, i'm guessing it'll be announced by Wednesday at the very latest
Malham earlier...
dazh
...I’ve now had several heated discussions with my 15 year old daugher about whether she should be allowed to meet up with her mates....
It's her right, ain't it? Surpasses everyone else's. don't it? 🙂
I'd tell her go ahead, but she's living in a tent out the back so she doesn't kill anyone in the household.
Oh. and toilet needs? Here's a bucket.
Lockdown needs to happen Monday
Lockdown needs to happen Monday
Lockdown needed to happen about 2 weeks ago!
Disheartening to hear this is so commonplace. Solo walk on the Downs near Eastbourne. As soon as I got close to the car parks it was mobbed with people. Most actively keeping their distance but still large numbers of groups all huddled together. Doggy walkers all getting together why their pets sniff each other arses. Passing people who obviously weren't going to make the slightest effort to give me space so I ended up jumping up verges. I hope they know something I don't.
Maybe it’s just me but I’d rather see wealth spread out. I think it fundamentally unfair that generation after generation get handed vast inheritance they have not earned whilst others go poor. I know of at least 3 people who are close to me who will in the not too distant future become multi millionaires when they inherit family wealth. It’s not even money their own parents earned, as they themselves inherited it.
Sorry - derailing a bit as I know I'm too late for this reply. However, I doubt whether multi-millionaires pay substantial inheritance tax as their "wealth managers" will cosy it all away in trusts and other such. Unless that law changed massively, that'll remain the case IMO
Sorry – derailing a bit as I know I’m too late for this reply. However, I doubt whether multi-millionaires pay substantial inheritance tax as their “wealth managers” will cosy it all away in trusts and other such. Unless that law changed massively, that’ll remain the case IMO
I was speaking with my Brother in Law earlier, whose a Hedge Fund manager and he thinks after this week its the end of Capatalism as we know it and this time everyone will be in it together
B & Q was absolutely mobbed today - no one keeping their distance from each other. I went to Screwfix instead
Comes to something when you go for a quiet walk in a local park and you can’t even get away from that Corona rubbish there!
Interesting to read what others are doing regards to quarantine things like post, parcels, food etc. I've got 2 spray bottles in the garage, one with a diluted bleach solution and 1 with ~70% ethanol. I use one or the other depending on the item to be sanitized.
Would be good to read what others are doing..
and this time everyone will be in it together
https://twitter.com/colmuacuinn/status/1241402664208007169?s=21
In Italy, someone is dying of this every two minutes. They die alone without their friends and family being able to visit them. They do not have access to medical care that may have saved them, because of the volume of people who are ill. Their bodies are travelling in army trucks to hastily built temporary crematoriums. Italian health care professionals plea with the UK to learn the lesson and stop the spread now. They are ignored by millions of plucky Brits who just instinctively know that things will be different here, because we are British.
STAY AT HOME
Almost 800 deaths and 6,500 new diagnosed cases in the last 24 hours in Italy.
Simply unbelievable.
Yet cretins like certain people on here still claim it's an over reaction
Let’s not get political about this, so please don’t comment about who this is from… but it is the sensible next step for the government to take:
https://twitter.com/lisanandy/status/1241440460859674624?s=21
B & Q was absolutely mobbed today – no one keeping their distance from each other.
One last hurrah before we all go into isolation. One of the most ideologically right leaning conservative governments we have had in years is going to pay the nations wages, the pubs have been shut. Still we think it's an extended national holiday.
the end of Capatalism as we know it
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One of the most ideologically right leaning conservative governments we have had in years is going to pay the nations wages,
Now, I don't know much about these things but I heard someone else refer to the end of Capitalism the other day, so decided this afternoon to educate myself a little.
The first bit I get - the retail & business spend of workers wages that props up the capitalist ability to earn and grow profit, in turn paying some into workers wages and the cycle continues - is gone because those business are not going to exist and the number of workers greatly minimised.
But the second bit? A conservative government is fundamentally a capitalist government right? So, if after all this shakes out what happens? Are they not suitable? Do they defer to 70's levels of Thatcherite policy to nationalise BA, Virgin Rail, and Clinton Cards - for example - and become a government seeking to grow business for a sell off in say, 20 years? Do we therefore go backward politically?
Sorry to get political after I expressly bemoaned the fact previously, but I'm interested to know how a capitalist government manages the demise of its ideology outside of no 10's front door.
Am just interested in the results that come out when we get a simple use at home serological test.
I reckon the numbers are going to shock a lot of people
Some insight into the testing dilemma in this article EUobserver article on testing
I also read elsewhere France have around 1500 patients in intensive care with 50% of those under 60.
The Italy numbers don't look great, any signs of levelling out beyond the headline numbers?
Aaaaand...change of tack by the National Trust. I thought it was a bit iffy of them to make entry free - was always going to result in people just not being able to resist a freebie and behaving irresponsibly as we’ve seen this weekend. Welsh mountain rescue dude on the radio just now saying Snowdon was as busy as a typical bank holiday weekend. Go Brits. Jesus wept...
The first bit I get – the retail & business spend of workers wages that props up the capitalist ability to earn and grow profit
Only partly right. They're both interconnected obviously, but it's not just demand, it's also the labour. If no one can do the work (as many currently can't) then the system collapses even if demand exists.
But the second bit? A conservative government is fundamentally a capitalist government right?
It's doesn't matter what they are. Events are driving this and they have no control over them (other than to carry on and allow millions to die). As I said quite a few pages back, if the market doesn't exist, then neither does capitalism. Obviously they will want to return to business as usual once the virus threat passes, but even if it's a short term disruption it's still going to be very difficult. The global debts, collapse in finance systems, and decimation of businesses is going to prevent simply rewinding the clock.
And that's without even considering the politics of it all. Now that people can see that everything they've been told for decades about there not being enough money is a lie, they'll demand changes, especially in the light of the suffering they've had to endure in order to get through this.
I also read elsewhere France have around 1500 patients in intensive care with 50% of those under 60.
Correct, it was on the news a few minutes ago. It's confirming a trend I mentioned a few pages back and we don't know what the survival rate of the younger people in intesive care will be yet as the victims are in intensive care for "weeks" according to a nurse who videoed a patient.
Edit: and Institut Pasteur is moderating an American report on the survival of the virus in aerosols saying their real world tests don't match the American results obtained with artificial aerosols. The American results are somewhat alarming claiming the virus remains in the air for 3 hours whereas Institut Pasteur claims fall out in a few minutes.
Great response from the Bannatyne Gym. Quick, clear, concise 10/10
Unlike the Camping and Caravaning Club which are keeping sites open, but closing communal areas (including toilet blocks) and not offering refunds for caravans. I can see an interesting phone conversation is going to play out on Monday morning. But then again, should you expect anything better from an organisation who's head honcho has the title of Director General? FFS.
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Might be worthwhile making sure our kids know where to find the wills and Powers of Attorney, bank, and other documents.
And how to arrange a funeral...
My mum has over the last 2 weeks has told me where things like that are and the contents of the wills should the worst happen to them, and me. Then reminded me that......
The family tree dies with me currently!
How’s that for morbid!
But the second bit? A conservative government is fundamentally a capitalist government right?
Giving some context - think less about the over all politics and more about the over all feel of the current government pre virus. It's not bashing the politics it's about people's ability to register something never before experienced is happening.
I did think of putting a couple of sentences in about the world wide toll of virus. I could have left out the government reference and just gone for wages - probably enough without icing it.
People will have had a multitude or reasons for doing what they did, well intentioned, selfish, completely oblivious, partially aware, miss informed...
We could probably do another round of the merits of Boris Johnson. Really though it's more important to work out how to make the virus control measures relevant and relatable to people. Either that or just go again for the simple and informative words of The Parkie from Viz - No XXXXing Nothing.