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@R-L said in Coronavirus - Overall:
@Bones oh poor boz. Isn't he too old for shenanigans.
He's actually looks quite fit from the videos of him on his morning run I've seen.
IIRC he was a pretty useful rugby player and runner in his day.
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@Victor-Meldrew said in Coronavirus - Overall:
On a serious note, if someone like BoJo - who would have been well protected as PM - can catch coronavirus, it shows how infectious the thing is.
Or is it another 'we're all in this together' ruse a la Prince Charles.
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@MiketheSnow said in Coronavirus - Overall:
Or is it another 'we're all in this together' ruse a la Prince Charles.
Doubt its a ruse but might be helpful. When Buck House was bombed by the Luftwaffe. the QM commented "at least we can now look the East End in the eye"
After the usual soshal meeja anger about Charles "jumping the queue", Scotland's CMO made a statement that he got the test everyone else would get in line with clinical guidelines - over 70 and with certain underlying medical conditions.
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@Victor-Meldrew no one is well protected against it though, you just have to do your best with hand hygiene and distancing
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I'm hearing that Till Lindemann, lead singer of Rammstein is in intensive care.
edit - After being diagnosed with pneumonia by doctors, he was immediately sent to intensive care and placed under quarantine.
He is currently feeling better and his life is no longer in danger!
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Dutch update: https://www.rivm.nl/nieuws/actuele-informatie-over-coronavirus/data
Each day they correct previous data for deaths which had been recorded late. Thus the totals are the important bars. Some signs of a slowing...
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Chris Whitty too
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Thought this was interesting. Haven't seen it posted.
Not a cure or a vaccine but potential to help flatten the curve? Maybe?
Apparently the vaccine strengthens the immune system.
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Mrs Meldrew's son has signed up as one of the
250,000500,000600,000700,000 volunteers to help the NHS thru the crisis. It works like this:-
You sign-up and your ID is checked using a photo cross-referenced to passports and drivers licences. It checks if you are vetted - taxi drivers, teachers etc
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You download an app to your phone and log in when you are available.
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You then choose what you want to do - deliver food, ring someone to cheer them up, deliver drugs to people or ferry supplies between hospitals or (if vetted) take someone to a doctor or hospital.
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It uses GPS to track your location and offers you available jobs a bit like Uber. When you accept a job, you get contact details or instructions, directions and delivery info.
He did his first job today - a phone call - and it seemed to work OK.
Whether it can handle the numbers and the 150% increase in expected volunteers remains to be seen, but there's obviously been some impressive work going on behind the scenes. This appears to have been well thought thru.
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@booboo said in Coronavirus - Overall:
Thought this was interesting. Haven't seen it posted.
Not a cure or a vaccine but potential to help flatten the curve? Maybe?
Apparently the vaccine strengthens the immune system.
Maybe it reduces the respiratory issues? Anything would be helpful
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@sparky said in Coronavirus - Overall:
Uk Chief medical officer down too.
Gove to front the Government briefing.
Power is his and Mrs Gove's after all these years of wanting it so much.
Gove is the only bloke I know who can lose an excellent argument without opening his mouth.
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wow, US
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