SARS CoV-2 coronavirus / Covid-19 (No tin foil hat silliness please)

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Smores said:
The idea of opening pubs any time soon is mental, as if drunks are going to abide by social distancing.

Open restaurants and hope they abide by half service. You want a social drink have it with a nice meal.
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I agree. Miss my Beer and Burger for six quid on a Tuesday so much. :lol: (not at a Wetherspoons before you ask).

Think pubs will have curfew restrictions in the short term, open during work hours where it's quieter at lunchtime and early afternoon but asking for trouble if you keep them open in evenings and weekends in the short term.
 

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Guess contact tracing and flight tracking will be taken a little more seriously over next few months then from January-March so you'd like to think any new outbreak will be more locally contained.

The problem remains with the virus already in the UK and everything else. It will be back in the winter but then you hope the antibody tests will be around, decent % of population already got immunity and then a vaccine might only be a few months away.
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what do you by it will be back in the winter? As if this is going away for some time.
 

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Rajma said:
what do you by it will be back in the winter? As if this is going away for some time.
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Hopefully number of deaths/cases reduces in next few months like in other countries? But winter months people will start getting general flu which will start the panic again.

Simply have to be better prepared in winter months anyway.
 

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FootballHQ said:
I agree. Miss my Beer and Burger for six quid on a Tuesday so much. :lol: (not at a Wetherspoons before you ask).

Think pubs will have curfew restrictions in the short term, open during work hours where it's quieter at lunchtime and early afternoon but asking for trouble if you keep them open in evenings and weekends in the short term.
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I'm going to assume that pubs and restaurants will have reduced seating with more spacing between tables.
 

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So my wife’s hospital system is using temporal thermometers to check the temp of every doctor and nurse that comes into work... but they’re aiming it at the middle of their forehead instead of their temple, because the forehead shows a lower temperature than the temple.

Also, if the doctor / nurse does have a fever and has to go into 2 weeks of quarantine, they’re not going to be paid unless they have 2 weeks worth of “paid time off” built up.
 

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Revan said:
With the increase on infections, also the testing should increase. France now per capita is doing the same as the US (which is blamed for not doing enough testings). Of course much better than the UK, but for example, far worse than Germany (who is trying to increase it from 80k to 200-300k per day).
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Its not really much better than the UK, the tests per capita are almost identical. Cases and deaths per capita are higher in France too.

There are some countries which are doing well in Europe. They don't include either France or the UK unfortunately.
 

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So my wife’s hospital system is using temporal thermometers to check the temp of every doctor and nurse that comes into work... but they’re aiming it at the middle of their forehead instead of their temple, because the forehead shows a lower temperature than the temple.

Also, if the doctor / nurse does have a fever and has to go into 2 weeks of quarantine, they’re not going to be paid unless they have 2 weeks worth of “paid time off” built up.
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Jesus christ that is so fecked up.
 

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Just give everybody the BCG jab and that will sort it. Never should have been stopped in the first place.
 

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The Guardian have embarrassed themselves with publishing that Robert Jenrick story and running it as the lead item.
 

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sammsky1 said:
Rightfully getting slammed for it in the comments too.


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I'd say it's at best a grey area. Yes you're allowed out to help vulnerable people, but I find it hard to believe there's not a neighbour/friend/relative closer that could have done that errand.
 

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I'd say it's at best a grey area. Yes you're allowed out to help vulnerable people, but I find it hard to believe there's not a neighbour/friend/relative closer that could have done that errand.
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If me and the wife had to isolate, it would be my parents who live 30 or so miles away who would help us out. We’re not that close to anyone else to oblige them with that burden.

It’s an absolute garbage story in its current form and I’m amazed the editor isn’t pulling it.
 

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Shambolic story. That is absolutely a good reason to go out, distance is irrelevant in that instance.
 

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Carolina Red said:
Oh, at the Medical University of South Carolina Hospital (viewed as the best in then state), they’re cutting doctor and nurse salaries right now due to “financial hardships brought about by the pandemic”.
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Are you serious? how they can be that thick and heartless? they are literaly risking their lives!! is the board cutting their salaries?
 

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If me and the wife had to isolate, it would be my parents who live 30 or so miles away who would help us out. We’re not that close to anyone else to oblige them with that burden.

It’s an absolute garbage story in its current form and I’m amazed the editor isn’t pulling it.
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My elderly relatives have been forced into isolation and the people next door on both sides have offered to take round shopping for them whenever they need it. I've also had at least three letters through the door from people down my road offering help to whoever needs it; people are doing a pretty good job of helping out each other, even if they don't know them well in my experience. People want to feel useful right now.

I'd argue that feeling a bit uncomfortable about asking a neighbour doesn't really make it necessary that people drive long (ok 30 miles isn't long but it's longer than 30 metres) distances to help. Which is worth bearing in mind, at least, because if we end up copying aspects of other countries' lockdowns if ours isn't working as hoped then those journeys will be banned anyway, so worth having a back up.
 

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Just came upon this news

https://www.usatoday.com/story/spor...surance-policy-payout-141-million/5123987002/

For each of the past 17 years, the All-England Lawn Tennis Club has paid for an insurance policy to guard against losses if Wimbledon should have to be canceled in the event of a worldwide pandemic.

That preparation will finally pay off this year. According to a report by the Action Network, the insurance will result in a payment worth $141 million -- or nearly half the amount that the club expects to lose as a result of the cancellation.
 

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sammsky1 said:
Rightfully getting slammed for it in the comments too.


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Yeah, when the Sunday Sport take the piss, you should consider deleting it and stop with the pathetic politicising shit.

As opposed to when Kinnock visits his parents and the Guardian says that's within the rules and police targeted him. Such a shite paper.

https://www.theguardian.com/politic...k-targeted-by-police-for-visiting-father-neil
 

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This is the cover of Azores biggest newspaper tomorrow's edition.

The lady in blue is the nurse coordinating my team, a brilliant woman who has dedicated 16 hours per day to this fight for the past 4 weeks. The only way we can make her get some rest every now and then is by organizing ourselves and deliberately ignoring her on her off days so that she gives up and goes home a bit earlier.

She is sitting on my chair, that yellow bottle is mine. She sat there because I refused to be photographed when the reporter came in, and an empty chair would look ugly in the picture.

The reason I refused to be photographed is because we had just been given those masks two minutes before and told to put them on. When we saw them coming we were happy, as we have been demanding them for days. To our dismay, we were told we would get one each and that we should take care of it because it would have to last one or two weeks. They're designed to be discarded at least every three hours, sooner if they become damp.

When I saw the reporter coming in, I immediately left in protest, and stood at the door laughing at the situation.

When you talk about propaganda and cover-up in China, think about this. It happens everywhere. You're just oblivious to the one around you.

I'm not being braver than my colleagues by standing up. It's just that they are employees with bosses, whose bosses are the government. I'm a volunteer, so I do what I want, and my colleagues thanked me for embarrassing their bosses and the newspaper.

 

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Carolina Red said:
So my wife’s hospital system is using temporal thermometers to check the temp of every doctor and nurse that comes into work... but they’re aiming it at the middle of their forehead instead of their temple, because the forehead shows a lower temperature than the temple.

Also, if the doctor / nurse does have a fever and has to go into 2 weeks of quarantine, they’re not going to be paid unless they have 2 weeks worth of “paid time off” built up.
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The infra-red ones are useless. I have been measured at 32.4, 34.2 degrees very often on my forehead at public locations. Never once at my actual temperature which is 35.4 or 35.6 degrees.

Either that my life is one giant matrix movie and I am actually an imaginative fish or I have the Reverse Covid and actually getting lower temperatures from the infection.
 
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