Coronavirus - Overall
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@nzzp said in Coronavirus - Overall:
@raznomore said in Coronavirus - Overall:
No being tempted to rub one out in the middle of the day....Pornhub Premium is free afterall.
Be honest. You're tempted, you just tend to resist
why? There's no one around. Live a little
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@Frank said in Coronavirus - Overall:
Some more information came out in Taiwan today as to how they got prepared earlier than most other countries.
When they heard whispers of problems in Wuhan, they sent two experts over there to the area. (presumably undercover).
They came back and told the Taiwanese govt. the Wuhan situation was very, very serious.
In an article I read Taiwan asked the Chinese government if they could send observers, and China obliged. Here is a similar article
The article is waaaaay back in the thread. You must catch up 🙂
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@Frank said in Coronavirus - Overall:
@canefan
We pay 6-10% tax over here.
Have all the masks we need.
Have all the testing we need.
Have virtually free health care and dental.Are you in Taiwan? My cousin and here family live there. Their school was in lockdown way before our alarm was raised. Tracking incoming travellers with apps, widespread testing, they wrote the book on responding to covid19
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@canefan said in Coronavirus - Overall:
@Frank said in Coronavirus - Overall:
@canefan
We pay 6-10% tax over here.
Have all the masks we need.
Have all the testing we need.
Have virtually free health care and dental.Are you in Taiwan? My cousin and here family live there. Their school was in lockdown way before our alarm was raised. Tracking incoming travellers with apps, widespread testing, they wrote the book on responding to covid19
Yep.
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@Catogrande said in Coronavirus - Overall:
I'd like to try the Auchentoshan sometime
It's not in-yer-face but has a bit more bite than, say, a typical Speyside. Very smooth.
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@Frank said in Coronavirus - Overall:
@canefan said in Coronavirus - Overall:
@Frank said in Coronavirus - Overall:
@canefan
We pay 6-10% tax over here.
Have all the masks we need.
Have all the testing we need.
Have virtually free health care and dental.Are you in Taiwan? My cousin and here family live there. Their school was in lockdown way before our alarm was raised. Tracking incoming travellers with apps, widespread testing, they wrote the book on responding to covid19
Yep.
20 years.You guys are lucky. They are all over it. Great street food too apparently!!!
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@Nepia said in Coronavirus - Overall:
I'm having bad luck with TP. Needed toothpaste this morning so shot over to the Woolies metro near my place - lots of people wandering out with TP, I get in there to see the last 24 pack get taken.
Then had to buy a hard drive for work so went to the local JB hifi and then shot down to the Coles to see people wandering round with 18 packs of three ply ... get to the cage and they're all gone.
Social pressure built up in the UK on shopping sensibly and observing the lock-down pretty quickly. Think it will happen with your area?
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@voodoo said in Coronavirus - Overall:
@canefan are you still working or suspended?
We are now considered an essential service. But no one has the capacity (personal protective gear, surgeries set up for it) to provide anything other than dental care that doesn't involve any of our motorized gear that generates aerosols (basically everything). We are in a very high risk job as a result, and no one I know is operational. Unless it is a specialist I would imagine any general dentist open right now is flouting the rules. Even Lumino, the biggest provider in NZ has suspended all operations
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@Victor-Meldrew said in Coronavirus - Overall:
@Nepia said in Coronavirus - Overall:
I'm having bad luck with TP. Needed toothpaste this morning so shot over to the Woolies metro near my place - lots of people wandering out with TP, I get in there to see the last 24 pack get taken.
Then had to buy a hard drive for work so went to the local JB hifi and then shot down to the Coles to see people wandering round with 18 packs of three ply ... get to the cage and they're all gone.
Social pressure built up in the UK on shopping sensibly and observing the lock-down pretty quickly. Think it will happen with your area?
Social pressure works in many ways though. Yesterday Ms Cato no1 decided to combine her once a day exercise with walking the dog. Trouble is the local park and the local cemetery(yes really) are pretty busy with people doing the same. Not terrible but not comfortable either. So she walked up the road to the local Catholic Church where there is some green space and got shouted at by a group of people telling her that the dog was being aggressive (fat chance, soft sack) and that she was invading their space. They were having a picnic...
This got compounded by the priest coming out of his house to yell at her that this (the church grounds) was private property and he would call the police.
Aaah, good old Christian values.
I must say though that this was isolated, in the main, things have been pretty quiet with most people being sensible.
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@Godder said in Coronavirus - Overall:
Modelling in Minnesota shows that they can't avoid the curve with a lockdown, only delay when the peak arrives. They are doing it anyway to rapidly expand their health system in the meantime.
Imperial College London's modelling which is guiding the UK's response shows the same.
The top bloke has said demand on health services will be like a slow tsunami rather than a breaking wave and last far longer then the peak as the backlog of patients they have put on hold to fight the virus need fixing
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@Bones said in Coronavirus - Overall:
Both Manchester clubs had to band together to reach that amount.
£100k is great as Football's a cash-flow business. Read that Man C & Man U had opened their facilities/hotel accommodation to NHS workers needing a break/bed for the night.
Players from clubs in London are ringing up elderly supporters who are isolating and doing video calls with kids of essential workers still in school