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Do we need a coronavirus thread?
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I didn’t get any cough at all. My wife had it in spades. We both had the ‘I can’t breathe’ in week 1/2 and it lingers on into week 3 although much reduced for me, less so for my wife.
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Unfortunately no-one can be told what coronavirus is. You have to suffer it for yourself. (And in an ideal world get tested for it...)
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I know some work places. Non-essential still insisting on staff being in so I also feel further crack down maybe coming
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My 2C is that the government should test each household once in about 2 weeks time. This is of course a huge effort, but would give a central indication of viral load.
Alternately map close physical contact via a volunteer website and get everyone submitting to describe the population of everyone they were in contact with over the past 4 weeks and then test each person that submits this. It should give us a reasonable estimation.
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Saw post on BBC News website of f I think a young guy in Taiwan where his phone battery died and after 20 mins chap at the door?
I am despairing that the slow down in the rate of increase will be interpreted wrongly.
Still increasing every day just a little less quickly.
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Testing has got to be central. Massive compulsory testing. Can't fight something without locating it.
Means having a database with everyone on it but that server could be ceremonially crushed by a tank at the end of this hahaha dreaming.
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they are more interested in the antibodies test so that the newly immune workers can get back to propping up the economy. we'll get bullied into that proposition by being unable to leave the house without the proper passport.
my concern is the possibility that there is only short-term immunity akin to norovirus.. the experts seem to dismiss this, and with good reason.. but i swear we had a very similar, but far less potent, version of this virus at start of january. i'm not the only one that's noticed that. paranoid, moi
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Apparently the recorded rate of heart attacks has fallen massively during CV19.
Not because people are having fewer heart attacks, but that they are avoiding reporting them (with subsequent admission to hospital) and having them at home.
Which then leads to heart failure, later on.
(It was the strange crash in Marchmont that reminded me of this)
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On a more positive note - did anyone else think the air was positively sweet today? Genuinely joyous to gulp lungfuls of the stuff while out for my state sanctioned exercise. Anyone know if this is due to falling air pollution levels, some meteorological thing or is the lockdown simply driving me nuts.
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partly true all that innit.. and partly the regular annual vitality rite of arms-aloft spring sunshine return
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@Morningsider
New air mass off the Atlantic apparently, but she is indeed sweet.
Looking forward to my Section 8(5)b run tomorrow.
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Could go in the rubbish driving thread, but I was walking with my wife along Corstorphine Road when a First Bus driver took both hands off the wheel, threw them apart and started angrily shouting at us. I think he was trying to tell us to be 2 metres apart.
I think him losing control of his bus at 30mph would be more dangerous to people than walking beside someone I live with but I’m not an expert on viral spread.
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He won't spend much time with his hands on the wheel if he does that every time he sees a couple walking together...
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@stickman, business opportunity? I’M WITH STUPID. T-shirts? Or I’m with Clever etc with arrows pointing to each other
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Unfortunately no-one can be told what coronavirus is. You have to suffer it for yourself. (And in an ideal world get tested for it...)
^This
Everyone's going to react to it differently to some degree. An unlucky proportion of the population's bodies will react to it in a way that leads to pneumonia; some will have the cough and breathlessness; others will have sore throats, loss of smell and taste. And without testing we'll be left not knowing for sure whether that was COVID-19.
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2 billion pounds more spent in supermarkets than at this time last year. Not hoarding though, no everyone just getting a little bit more???
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2 billion pounds more spent in supermarkets than at this time last year. Not hoarding though, no everyone just getting a little bit more???
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@cyclecommute as a percentage it is Busier Than Xmas
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@CycleCommute.CC: More detail from https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/mar/31/coronavirus-britons-made-80m-extra-grocery-shops-in-less-than-a-month:
Britons made nearly 80m extra grocery shopping trips in March – spending almost £2bn more on food and drink than in 2019 – as they rushed to stockpile amid fears about coronavirus.
Data published on Tuesday by market analysts Nielsen shows that UK supermarket takings surged 20.5% during the key four-week period from 24 February to 21 March.
The leap in sales was particularly marked in the week ending 21 March – soaring by 43% – and before supermarkets and retailers raced to introduce measures such as restricting shopper numbers to ensure “physical distancing”.
Shoppers each made three additional shopping trips during this period, which equates to 79m more shopping trips than the same time last year, and an extra £1.9bn spent on groceries.
It's a pity that the article is a bit poorly expressed, but I think that all the figures quoted are comparisons between this year and 2019.
Elsewhere supermarkets have been saying that they have experienced business volumes the like of which they normally only get around Christmas (when people know that they won't be able to get to a supermarket for two whole days). But the retailers know when Christmas is due and they start planning for it up to six months ahead. This came out of the blue and they're still playing catch-up.
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Longstone Sainsburys seemed reasonably well stocked yesterday evening. They even had loo roll and bathroom cleaner.
The psychological impact of this was interesting. Our stocks were beginning to run down, but I feel notably happier now that the niggling worry that the supermarkets weren't coping seems to have been resolved (for the moment, and at least until even larger proportions of the global supply chain start getting sick).
The haul included two vegan sausage rolls. At home, we realised these sausage rolls were made in South Africa. What the blazes are Sainsbury's doing importing sausage rolls from South Africa??
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South African soya beans?
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First minister just said she's happy that there is no increased risk of miscarriages of justice now that jury trial is restricted.
Odd thing for a trained lawyer to suggest.
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Admission that a jury of your peers is no good when your peers are the British public.
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Can anyone provide more information about the rainbow posters that I've noticed in a lot of neighbours' windows? They're fairly obviously the work of children - was it something the schools had them doing before they were closed? The other day I cycled past a wee lassie drawing a huge rainbow in chalks on the pavement outside her house - doing a grand job of it as well she was!
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Not sure think maybe is Homework
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People have been putting up the colourful creations to help cheer others up and raise a smile as they spend more time inside.“
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I think it was for the kids to spot whilst wandering the streets for their state authorised exercise.
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Was out for a Section 8(5)b state sanctioned bike ride yesterday, just a short run to Musselburgh and back.
Observations:
- Main roads reasonably quiet but still relatively lots of cars. They can't all be shopping for Section 8(5)a state sanctioned "basic necessities" or Section 8(5)f state sanctioned "absolutely necessary" work commuting. Suspicion is folk are going for a drive (possibly to a beauty spot).....(punishable by FPN).*
- Larger numbers of peds and cyclists around than usual, presume Section 8(5)a / 8(5)b?
Also suspect most of these folk normally drive/get the bus.- Air cleaner, certainly, but noticeable uptick in aroma of smoke from coal fires / wood burners. Maybe just masked normally by VOCs from vehicle exhaust fumes...
- Wildlife taking over large parts of Musselburgh. Bridges over Esk largely empty (though avoided road bridge as Musselburghers seem to like driving over it even now).
- Saw a couple of youths being arrested by cops at the half way point. No idea what they did wrong. I was just turning around near Musselburgh race course to head back home. Stopped for a sip of water. A police car pulled up at speed driving on wrong side of road, door flew open and a copper leapt out chasing a young guy in a hoodie. Another youth was strolling nonchalantly away from there, behaving as though nothing to do with him. Car rolled towards him, door still open. Another cop got out and stopped him, bundled him into back of car! Literally all happened in front of me. I set off home...
* - Maybe they're all Section 8(5)k state sanctioned ministers of religion/worship leaders driving to their places of worship?
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