Yep, the clip on weight is a good idea, but think I’ll just stick with 3mm, at least I know it will fit in the rebate. I don’t think 4mm is that much stronger anyway, suspect if you fell against it 3 or 4mm would shatter.

They are 2 pain sashes so fairly big

Yes, think I’ll just go for 3mm, if the 2mm stuff has lasted 120 years, it can’t be that bad.

I think it’s quite a big job getting to the weights.

That’s not how it works. It took 4 months in the winter wave to hit 1400 deaths 7 day average at its highest point.

Think it was around 9-10K deaths a week at the peak. Also less infectious variant and more restrictions(but no vaccine). For the record I don’t think the numbers I calculated will happen as people will modify behaviour when/if it gets grim also the vaccination program will continue to reduce R however the numbers are correct IF growth continues at the current rate of increase that has been seen this week.

The message coming from the media is that deaths are low, so we’re fine. The reality is each of the ~100k cases we’ve had in the past week has consequences on people’s health and businesses.

Again, they are making the mistake of looking at absolute numbers rather than the growth.

Deaths grew 72% to 124 in the last 7 days compared to the previous week, if it continues with that growth then….

In 4 weeks 1085 deaths/week
In 6 weeks 3211 deaths/week
In 8 weeks 9498 deaths/week
In 10 weeks 28,100 deaths/week

Obviously the vaccines will continue to drive R down as will increasing infections, further unlocking will increase R

No I need mapping. Breadcrumbs aren’t mapping really. Ideally I’d be able to find a destination on my phone and beam it to the device.

You can plan a route on your phone/tablet/computer then send it to the watch as a gpx, or download a Strava route etc. I use OSMaps on the iPad, then send it to the watch – works really well for biking. If I need to look at a map I stop and get my phone out, I think a watch would be too small to plan routes on while you’re riding along so may as well stop and look at your phone.

My friend’s 18 year old has the golden opportunity of getting a free vaccination this weekend. His nearest ‘walk in’ centre is a 5 minute stroll from his house. Nothing she says is making this teenager go.
How in earth can we get through to these teenagers that this is important?

The delta variant is significantly more infectious and cases are rising exponentially. In the past we’d be locking down now, but that isn’t going to happen, so it’s quite likely anyone not taking the vaccine will get their inoculation the old fashioned way via infection.

Hypocrite Hancock!

https://news.sky.com/story/covid-19-why-india-is-concerned-about-delta-plus-variant-and-a-third-wave-as-41-cases-detected-in-uk-12339709

Depressing reading. I’m starting to wonder if we’ll ever get back to normal.

Now 10hrs post 2nd Moderna, seem to be getting off fairly lightly so far. Arm gone a bit tender in the last hour. So far nothing close to the first jab, but I don’t think I got really bad with the first one until 24hrs+.

I probably spoke too soon. Can confirm the side effects were just as bad on the 2nd dose. Fever, nausea, headache etc.

Just bought another Yamaha (TRBX604) to satisfy my active pickup itch, without having to go down the Stingray route 😱

Yamaha make some great basses. I recently picked up a used BB735, my first 5 string and it sounds and plays better than my US Pbass. Not sure about the 5 string thing, so thinking of getting the BB734 too. They do both active and passive and the tone is a bit meatier than the TRBX series from the clips I heard on YouTube.

I was at the supermarket not too long ago and a dealer walked over to me, gave me his card and told me to come in for a test drive as my car didn’t suit me / made me look poor.

I tend to think the opposite. As the saying goes…..The empty can rattles the loudest.

The genuinely wealthy people I know drive round in 10yr old+ sheds.

Now 10hrs post 2nd Moderna, seem to be getting off fairly lightly so far. Arm gone a bit tender in the last hour. So far nothing close to the first jab, but I don’t think I got really bad with the first one until 24hrs+.

It’s mentioned here…
https://www.bhf.org.uk/informationsupport/heart-matters-magazine/news/coronavirus-and-your-health/vaccine-second-dose#Heading12a

Where did you read that?

I’ve seen it quoted a number of times but can’t remember where exactly

My wife has had both Pfizer. The first really hit her bad and the second was a non-event. Her colleagues (NHS) reported much the same.

That’s reassuring, sounds like it’s not necessarily a forgone conclusion I’ll be bed ridden tomorrow evening.

And indoor mixing, without masks, in secondary schools and sixth forms.

I didn’t realise they were scrapping masks indoors, it just mentions nightclubs and large events on the government website.

Rumour is a 4 week delay

I doubt the June 21st easing will make much difference, the big step was last month allowing indoor mixing in households/pubs/restaurants etc. We’d have probably got away with it if our incompetent overlords had closed the borders with India a month earlier. We’d still have ended up with the Indian variant being dominant eventually, but the importation of thousands of cases has brought that date forward such that the level of vaccination at the moment is insufficient to prevent significant exponential growth in cases and the inevitable increase in deaths and admissions.

Dantstw13 – I’m pretty sure we hit the inflection point for deaths a week or so ago. As you mention numbers are small so difficult to differentiate in the noise, but cases and admissions have been increasing for a few weeks now so rising deaths are in the pipeline – hopefully to a lesser degree thanks to the vaccine.

It’s the 30w version. Powers on ok you can hear the speaker pop when turning on and off. With the amp on the speaker hums slightly so sounds like it’s getting power from the amp. No sound when playing though either through the amp or headphone jack. No buzz or clunk from the cable, tried a different bass and cable. Checked the fuses on the board and they’re fine.

£80 was for 2hrs labour and small bits as needed. Amp cost me £20 off eBay as a fixable gamble. It will get turned into something but would prefer an amp over a lamp.

That could potentially be the input jack, which would be a very easy fix. I can see it has a line in input – try playing some music through that to see if the amp and speaker are ok. If that works then likely to be the input jack, or less likely the pre-amp stage for the bass.

The 7 day average is also the lowest it’s been since the start of the pandemic.

That’s incorrect I’m afraid.

It was 37 a week ago on the 25th May. 43 as of yesterday, 16% higher. Suspect it will further increase once the bank holiday deaths are reported.

What’s wrong with it?

Ashdown are a UK company and are supposed to have excellent customer service so it might be worth dropping them an email.

The plot below shows that there has been no evidence of repeat infections in this heavily vaccinated population during the emergence of B.1.617.2

@tired, I’m not sure the graph does show there is no evidence of repeat infections with the India variant. You’d need to replot the last month with a massively rescaled Y-axis to see what the trend is. I had a quick look on the link you posted and saw in the document they claim to link to the raw data, but when I checked the excel figure 6 (data for the graph) is missing.

I have drank a gallon of wine and I’m looking at this in my phone so I maybe wrong.

Quite surprised to see the rolling 7 day death toll is up 38% on the previous week. This is exceeding the growth in cases. I was hoping the vaccines would keep deaths low even in the face of rising cases.

Any figures on the Indian vs Kent mortality? Hopefully it is not any worse and this recent jump in deaths is just a statistical anomaly due to the low numbers.

Stats here…
https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/

….So hopefully still a good level of protection against hospitalisation/death?

Is that no protection from symptomatic infection, or no protection from serious disease/death? Any stats on younger age groups? I had a pretty strong reaction to the Moderna so feel like I should have a reasonable level of protection, but my second jab is scheduled 12 weeks after the first, when does the protection start to diminish?

The minimum requirement for protection is 50%. AZ achieves this after only one dose. Pfizer does not.

@tired I thought the Pfizer/Moderna was 80% effective after a single dose?

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/03/29/cdc-study-shows-single-dose-of-pfizer-or-moderna-covid-vaccines-was-80percent-effective.html

And…

https://www.bmj.com/content/373/bmj.n979

Out of interest have you had the vaccine, if so when? Could be related.

How are we feeling about the Indian Variant?

To early to say?

I wouldn’t worry too much about that. Looks like out of 100M People who had the AZ jab in India only 17K got infected, which is pretty incredible. Also India has a huge population so the number of deaths/Million is still around 14X less than in the U.K.

Although India looks to be in a very difficult situation, their vaccine efficacy figures are looking decent. "Covishield" is Ox/AZ. 100 million doses and 17,145 positive cases. https://t.co/kytMrEHrlo

— Steve Brown (@stevebrown2856) April 21, 2021

Thanks Guys – ended up using PowerPoint, was really easy, made the sheet bigger to improve the resolution and you can even adjust the brightness/contrast of the pics after you have added them. The crop is great as it still maintains the original image so you can crop it bigger if needed.

Just tried PowerPoint, works well, but does anyone know how to increase the resolution of the exported jpeg?

The problem with PowerPoint is you can’t change the size of the sheet and are stuck with a landscape aspect, ideally want more of a portrait config.

Thanks, just been playing around with paint.net, I think that does what I want

Not looking to stitch together like a pano, will be 6 separate images

You could actually do it with MS Paint easily enough. Just start a blank image, make it huge, zoom out & paste each photo in & move it around & crop as required. Then stick the text in. 🙂

Tried paint and paint 3D problem with them is you can’t lock the aspect ratio of the pasted image so when you resize you screw it up.

Can you export a slide as a jpg from PowerPoint?

Looked at that too, but I seem to be stuck with the PowerPoint slide size, which isn’t quite right, plus export was fairly low res

If you just mean normal images then http://www.gimp.org would do, if you mean stitching panoramic photos together then hugin.sourceforge.net.

Just normal images. I tried gimp but got a bit frustrated as the second image was pasting into the text box I’d created and I couldn’t figure out how to stop it. I know it’s pretty powerful but looking for something a bit simpler as I need to do it tonight.

Looking at that report it doesn’t look like they are compensating for the incubation period, so if you see a drop in infections at Jab+14 days the symptomatic illness it prevented you getting would have arose from an exposure on jab+7 days (given a 7 day incubation period). Is that not correct?

I was wondering how long it takes to get a reasonable level of protection after the first jab. I know 2 weeks is often quoted and a recent study in the US showed 80% protection after 2 weeks with Pfizer/Moderna

But…..given it takes around 5-7 days to develop symptoms and possibly a few days to get a test result does that mean if you work back you actually have 80% protection after a week or so?