Was a bit of a faff to make, but adds so much space to the back of the house. Millboard composite decking bought as seconds from ebay so its only really pricey, not really really pricey.

Contact with surfaces im sure is a mechanism – but couple the fact that the chance of it being on a particular gate that you are opening is probably pretty low plus you then touching your face afterward and it having persisted for very long under the uv light on that gate, especially if its a wooden gate means that the chance is probably vanishingly small.

We have a shade sail that we attach to the back of the house. Works a treat, cost about 20 quid. I take it down if its windy or rainy.

Ive been opening doors using my hands in a hospital many times a day for the last 8 weeks and don’t seem to have caught it yet. I’m pretty sure gates will be low risk. D.

Thank you to every front line worker out there! My fiancée is a radiographer xraying C19 patients and her trust sent around an email yesterday saying PPE is running low…. it’s a fearful time as we’ve seen the results of inadequate PPE

Everything is running a bit short already, drugs are already becoming an issue – we are getting through sedatives at a rate of knots on ICU – as is every icu in the world right now – which adds up to a looming problem potentially.

@catnash – what flow rates are you going to be using on the anaesthetic machines?
Interested to know what the clinicians are being told to use as this will help us estimate condensate levels

I think they are thinking about 6l on our ones – Drager Primus, although we haven’t got the point of needing to use them yet. I have grave concerns how a circle system is going to cope with minimally sedated spontaneously breathing patients when the time comes to trying to do any weaning. Fine when people are sedated and paralysed.

That is a rather worrying statement, has there been no guidance and best practises coming down the pipeline from where it has already struck (Italy, China etc? Surely there must be lessons learned that can be applied even as advise to those now at the front-line in what treatments have been effective or not.

Yeah we have taken all the advice on board – and we are changing practice daily – problem is there is no magic bullet (at least yet) nothing is really working that well – these people are really sick. The Chinese and the Italians haven’t worked out what to do exactly either yet.

I’m an ICU Doc in South Wales, our ICU’s are now pretty much full although we haven’t yet started to fill up the extra capacity that has been made but thats going to be happening pretty soon – we are gaining about 3-5 patients a day and they are really sick and not getting better. I’ve never seen an ICU with so many really sick patients, and normally they have a reason that they are there – they have had accidents or cardiac arrest or post operative etc – these are nearly all previously fit and well, or with one or two comorbidities and they are all in their 30s, 40s and 50s and 60s or they are nurses.

Its honestly like nothing I’ve ever seen, and we don’t really know how to treat them effectively. Initially we were adopting an approach like we do in Acute Respiratory Distress syndrome, but that doesn’t seem to be working in the longer term, they are also getting lots microvascular complications, cardiac issues, coagulation issues and renal failure, its really multisystem. Its so odd having a whole ICU where every patient is suffering from the same disease. We spend a lot of time on every shift proning (turning on their face) people – which does seem to help – you look around the unit and nearly half the patients are prone.

I spent a long time looking after a patient who came in with an out of hospital arrest at the wheel of his truck – covid swabs were negative so no enhanced PPE and was placed on the non covid ITU, he then started to get sicker the next day – a bronchial asparate was sent off and comes back with covid so thats another problem that keeps happening – we keep getting exposed through false negative tests.

Sorry thats a bit of an essay, but I enjoyed getting it off my chest

This is quite a good plan by Berghaus – normal trade price is about 50% of normal retail – so by doing this Berghaus are creating a market for their goods, when the shops are shut and selling them at effectively their normal price for them. Good plan, I hope some more follow suit.

This twitter link explains far better than I could how just using a basic ventilator may not be the answer. ITU vents are really complex and weaning patients off these temporary ones may be nearly impossible.

Lots of news coming about new ventilators being developed

This leaves me with some apprehension

Let’s think about ventilators…

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— Nitin. Stay@Home (@aroradrn) March 26, 2020

Been using smarty for over a year, got nothing bad to say about it

I guess that depends on your anaesthetic machines, ours are nowhere near as good as our ITU vents when you have a severely hypoxic patient.

The medical regs probably will go out the window, problem is people with wet lungs with a bad ventilator will just die. It will either pop their lungs or simply won’t be able to ventilate them effectively. A modern ITU vent has all the settings it has because we have learnt how bad for your lungs being ventilated is, putting a sick person on a crap vent is next to pointless. I’m concerned that those patients vented on anaesthetic machines will probably do really badly and that’s a thousand times better than a self inflating bag and an electric strap.

I’d love to know this too, useful tool, but the blades are pricey.

I applaud the idea, but it’s pie in the sky. ITU ventilators are sophisticated things, and by all accounts these patients are going to be critically hypoxic and difficult to ventilate – this won’t be able to touch the sides. I’m an ITU doctor btw, so I know a little on the subject.

This is totally incorrect. For membranes and coatings to let water through it has to pass through in vapour form – they are impermeable to liquid water, that’s why they’re waterproof.

Its not – traditionally gortex does work like that – vapour going through a semi permeable membrane -and as a result the membrane was quite breathable – unfortunately it got clogged with oils from the skin and very rapidly stopped working – to combat this a light pu membrane is added to the ptfe – this slows down the breath ability because the moisture vapour has to condense on the inside and draw through and then re evapourate. Event has this membrane applied at microscopic scale – which impairs the breathability less.

Mlgrips – the water that leaves the inside of the jacket is in vapour not liquid. thats the whole point – liquid water cannot go thru the membrane but vapour can.

No molgrips is right, the vapour condenses in the inside and is drawn through – certainly for goretex anyway – event is a little different. These jackets don’t really work the way the marketing bull makes you think they do.

Intensive Care Doctor here, there is a lot of planning going on, not too many patients yet but a real sense that we are in the calm before the storm, and the storm is going to be a massive one.

How do you play Golf on a road bike?

I always used to find that the solution to this was a as follows :-
Place junior on their back on changing mat.
You sit at end of changing mat and quickly place one foot over each armpit.
This leaves two hands free to change nappy and to hold ankles – prevents all squirming and wriggling.

I thought it was a really interesting, thought provoking programme. I just wish he spoken to a slightly more coherent holocaust denier. The Irish chap was so clearly a nut job that I thought it trivialised the bile he was speaking.

I’ve got dewalt for impact and combi+ multi tool, really good kit. I’m just a diy’er though and I do find for a lot of things I don’t need to spend dewalt money for stuff I’m not using regularly. I find einhell stuff is a good compromise between cost and performance for things I’m not using that often. You can use their batteries in all their tools including lawnmowers too.

I use rxsport online – cant fault the quality of their glasses. Get a prescription from boots – apparently they are the best of the big chains in terms of the quality of eye test that you get.

Re the tube blackout – I thought Greenwich power station was there as a back up for the tube if the power was to fail, and pretty much sits there doing nothing otherwise. Anyone know why that didn’t kick in and sort out the tube?

I dare you to Google ‘Fourniers Gangrene’ if you want to be truly nauseated.

Ours were stolen in New Forest last year while locked to our van. Thieves cut lock off whilst I was sleep inside, literally 10cm from my head. Keep them inside if you can!

I’ve got a 2018 940 Genius as my only bike. Find its absolutely fine on the climbs, just as good as my old 130mm bike, and it really looks after you on the downs. The twinloc is handy but not essential, i do like having the ability to completely lock out the suspension when on the flat and tarmac though.

I think I always say this when this comes up. I’m an anaesthetist, work with lots of eye surgeons, they all seem to wear glasses. Asked one about it once, he said if you have to don’t go anywhere thats advertising to do it cheaply.

There has recently been a load of changes to the mot. I’m fairly sure it would have passed but I wouldn’t be now. My van failed because it had a towbar fitted with no electrics – because I use a high mounted bike carrier which doesn’t obscure lights and I don’t tow- but due to changes it was a fail and had to come off.

I heard an interesting bit on R4 today about the Hive. Basically it is same as installing a listening and data gathering device in your house, which when combined with the other social media stuff on phones etc (through same IP identifier etc), was sending huge data (the suggestion was conversation level) to Google…

Yeah I listened to that as well. It was Nest she was talking about, but I’m sure Hive is just the same. I did think that she came across as a bit Tin Hat brigade and seemed in able to talk without using convoluted language that sort of meant nothing. I was left thinking at the end of it – so what – I don’t feel google has a handle on my hopes and imaginations in the way she is inferring.

Im no riding God or wannabe Dan Atherton believe me. Its a high volume shock, specced with a high volume spacer, which doesn’t make much sense to me. Its the first bike I’ve had with 150mm of travel yet I was finding it didnt feel any better than the one i used to have with 130mm. Effectively what was happening was that I was setting sag correctly then using about 30mm of travel over the sag – just bobbing around in the middle of the travel (i.e. too progressive). I decided to take the spacer out – feels loads better, but unless I set the shock up so hard that I haven’t got the correct amount of sag I’m blowing through all the travel even on relatively gentle stuff and its maybe a little wollowy (i.e. too linear). Hence why I’ve decided that I need a spacer just maybe a lovwer volume one. I guess stock tuning for a range of weights and riding styles is hard for the manufacturers to achieve.

To progressive and too linear? You been watching too many pinkbike videos?

For the love of God, you’re not Dan Atherton. Lol

No I’m not hence why I need suspension that works. With the big spacer the sag was set up correct but getting about half the travel out of the bike, no token sag correct but bottoming out very easily. Its not being a tart to try and get it set up properly.

Thanks guys, will give it a go – I guess the worst that can happen is that I have to buy a set of spacers for £25, unfortunately there is nothing on ebay that is suitable at the moment and dont have access to a 3d printer.

Happening for me on every page I load, chrome on Android and chrome on my windows 10 laptop. I struggle to believe the owners can’t replicate it, sounds like the just can’t be arsed tbh given how widespread it appears to be. Makes the site a total pain to use.

Ive started reading some of these to my 6yr old now – he loves them but they haven’t aged awfully well. They are properly racist feeling and colonial in many parts – I have to keep explaining that we don’t think that way anymore – that we have moved on from these silly viewpoints. African adventure is particularly trumpian.

Sounds like Cutaneous Cat Aids to me. Can be fatal.

While I appear to have some Japanese ‘performance’ car people, does anyone want to buy a 2007 (57 plate) civic type r gt (fn2 model), in red, Aircon  etc. owned by my wife from new,full honda service history, 73000 miles, 10 months left on the mot. Good tyres (Michelin pilot supersports) witha few mm left all round. Brakes are all good,lots of pads left, discs all fine, shouldn’t need anything spending  except think a CV joint is on the way out. Completely standard car,no mods/boy racer bits etc

Yeah but its not an EP3 is it :-)

They aren’t that fast compared to some of the modern stuff now tbh, but it shouldn’t feel slow. The hot hatch game has really moved on since these things were king of the tree. 220hp or thereabouts is 100hp down on a Golf R or civic type r etc.