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Do we need a coronavirus thread?
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Posted 4 years ago #
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So that's what was happening yesterday. I came down Queens Drive and was heading for Abbeyhill, and saw a mass gathering at Shouters' Corner with police keeping an eye on proceedings. All I heard was a guy who sounded like an angry Rab C Nesbitt loudhailering stuff about Indy and what-have-you.
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Amazing that we've just blundered int a second wave. I say 'amazing' I suppose it was obvious.
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If it was the twist in tv show I think there would be pretty fierce complaints on 'tinternet.
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“But there are only a few deaths a day, this is nothing like the peak of the pandemic when there were 1000 deaths a day - why are we worried?” say people who can’t remember early March and still don’t understand multiplication.
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The other thing that astonishes me is that we cannot learn from other countries. France and Italy going back into lockdown whilst we are down the boozer? Not just an EU thing. Each country seems to follow the same trajectory despite seeing it happen elsewhere first?
Though Manchester bods now saying they should not have come out of lockdown when everyone else did. Think that might have been objected to at the time?
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Chris Whitty warns tier 3 measures alone 'not enough to get on top' of Covid spread
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More than a third of Scots now reporting significant psychological distress.
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The health secretary said he fundamentally disagreed with its premise of granting young people unfettered freedoms while advising older and vulnerable people to shield.
“The Great Barrington declaration is underpinned by two central plains, and both are emphatically false. First, it says that if enough people get Covid, we will reach herd immunity. This is not true,” he said.
“Many infectious diseases never reached herd immunity like measles and malaria and flu … We should have no confidence that we would ever reach herd immunity to Covid, even if everyone caught it.
“The second central claim is that we can segregate the old and the vulnerable on our way to herd immunity … we cannot somehow fence off the elderly and the vulnerable from risk, while everyone else returns to normal,” he said.
“It’s neither conscionable nor practicable, not when so many people live in intergenerational homes where older people need carers … and when young people can suffer the facilitating impact of long Covid. Whenever we’ve seen cases among young people rise sharply, we then see cases among the over-60s rise inevitably thereafter, and we are not the kind of country that abandons our vulnerable, or just locks them up.”
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Perhaps even beyond. At our recent staff meeting we were essentially told to expect to WAH for another year.
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My worry at the moment is starts mutating like the flu or worse the cold and after all this it becomes a fact of life and in some cases a death sentence.
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@steveo
Natural selection pressure on all viruses is - I hear - to become more infectious and less deadly. That's one of the things gives me hope. There's no evolutionary advantage in killing your host. (Humans take note.)
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i'm thinking three to five years
joe public cannot wait that long though, they couldn't even stick it out for six months before denying reality
its really holding up a big huge mirror as to how we look after the vulnerable in the community, both locally and nationally, which as we know is a fair indicator of the dysfunction or otherwise of society
i will not mention cognitive dissonance or the resolution thereof, as gembo might blow a gasket
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Thanks Bax San, I have been down a rabbit hole of pedestrianism, Barclay matches, indoor six day walking events, hash house harriers and err, ratting with the famous Jenny Lind since watching an episode of the repair shop where they fix James Searles1851 world champion walking belt. 1000 miles in 1000 consecutive hours. With rests but all through the night. For weeks on end. Sometimes fixed and often in pub gardens. This Victorian sporting crazes also found With endurance cycling events in 1890s. James Searles’ dug was also a prodigious killer of rats again with betting. Searles finished one barclay match of 1000 miles by walking the last miles backwards and then a final lap where he walked a mile in 7 minutes.
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ratting with jenny lind ?
that could really catch on
like youth hostelling with chris eubank
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Jenny Lind was the dug belonging to James Sears, he used to set up contests on tuesdays at his pub in Liverpool and people would bet on how many rats would be killed in an hour.
This was what people did for entertainment before Sky Boxes/ satellite dishes were invented
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Other Jenny Linds are available Opéra singers and pubs mostly
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Idea for a television show:
IWARTS approaches the barn with a few select members of CCE in tow. He has a sphere of diameter ca 60cm under a cloth. The group enter the barn and are warmly greeted by Jay Blades.
Wos at you got then?
It's the world. The globe. Terra firma. And it's in a bit of a state.
Oh yeah I can see that. Bit shabby. Loved but worn innit?
Camera pans to the assembled gods at their workbenches. Ganesha pushes his spectacles onto his forehead, eyes widening. Thor puts down his hammer at the forge. The Norns stop weaving. Silence descends.
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Steve had three pairs of specs on the other night
A three spec problem
To paraphrase Conan Doyle three pipe problem
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Yes I have mad a Twitter joke about how that doesn't translate into lingo franco. Un problème à trois pipes would be something quite different.
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"Ceci n'est pas une pipe".
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"The map is not the territory".
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"The Medium is the Massage".
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