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Robert
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Do we need a coronavirus thread?
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Posted 5 years ago #
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Russian media claiming PM being put on a ventilator. No 10 rubbish the claims:
https://twitter.com/alexwickham/status/1247132310757138433?s=20
I suspect we won't be told anything other than 'he is comfortable / in good spirits' until he's much better, or...
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Russian media have their own agenda - Putin's agenda, if they know what's good for them.
In other news I have the concentration and focus of a distracted chicken and what I think must be corona-anxiety driven waves of fatigue that don't respond to coffee, naps, or exercise. Ugh.
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@ unhurt
‘Things’ are not normal.
Don’t be surprised if your body reacts (differently from ‘normal’).
That’s normal.
Fret less.
Maybe less coffee??
I’ve seen advice saying ‘avoid naps’.
Not convinced that’s useful advice.
I could advise ‘less screen time’, but I believe hypocrisy has, recently, become unfashionable...
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Two coffees a day IS less coffee!
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I'm on no coffees a day, just water and orange juice. Lockdown does seem to have affected my sleep pattern though, insofar as it has increased.
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Has been a diffrent few weeks.
For me, routine, and keeping busy is key.
6:30am alarm, 1 hour spin bike, shower. Log onto work at 9.
I have a 9:30am team meeting every morning, I'm not prescriptive about it having to be about work things, happy for folk to use it as social time. The humour keeps us all sane. I also set up a virtual elevenses, but I don't attend that one so folks can be more comfortable about talking about non work stuff.
I've told the team to have more meetings - we usually do too many of them, and complain about that, but seeing and speaking to folk a number of times a day important just now.
Important to take breaks - I don't tend to in the office, but need them just now, I have my one coffee in the garden most days.
Finish at 5, take dog for a walk and get state sponsored excersise - except today as I'm on here now not doing work...
Sunday we went camping in the front garden, Saturday was a craft day. 5 year old needs occupied.
Fair to say my concentration has not always been the best today - which is why I'm still on PC now and supposed to be finishing off some tasks instead of doing this.
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“Two coffees a day IS less coffee!”
Maybe more coffee??
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How can anyone be so ill they need to be in hospital overnight during a pandemic yet well enough to chair the Cabinet and control nuclear weapons?
It's utter nonsense.
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Using a ventilator someone else might need more desperately?
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Will we need hospital ships??
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For me, routine, and keeping busy is key.
I've gone full Lister:
What's the plan for the day? Slobbing in the morning, followed by slobbing in the afternoon, then a snooze before the main evening slob?
Can't even be bothered to go for a run now. I doubt this is good.Posted 5 years ago # -
@steveo
Let's run at the same time tomorrow? You say when and I shall change out of my crumb-infested hoodie and pyjama trousers and we'll go get some kilometres.
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@baldcyclist wow. that's impressive. i did make a 7.30 Teams meeting today, but had to use headphones and chat only because the rest of the family was still asleep. last week i had 'huddles' on teams around 10 and 3 most days plus ad hoc meetings. had a 2 hour editorial meeting on Friday. flattened me.
my kids old enough to do their own schooling without much supervision, but don't know how anyone else is putting in full work days. i need a 2 hour break over lunch just to sort my head out. and even then i often end up lying down for much of the afternoon.
as that suggests, I am also on the super tired thing with unhurt. all of us sleeping badly, even the kids. even when we get reasonable amount of exercise.
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No particular parts of the city caused any major issues, but the main gravitation points have been in the Pentlands at Harlaw and Bonaly, Gypsy Brae and Inverleith.
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Cicero said if you have a garden and a library you have everything you need. I wonder if Cicero ever lived on the 17th floor of a tower block, as I once did. The recent rumblings about a clampdown on going outside to exercise are alarming, not so much for those with gardens but for those deprived of them.
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No one at thriepmuir or layby to west (listonshiels) also cordoned off today. And indeed bit further west at little vantage yesterday. There is a chap lives out of a one person camper van - has the Maori/celtic flame motif. He has nowhere to go just now to park up as he rotates around the pentland hills car parks
Harlaw is gathering point for the yoof
Cicero never lived on the 17th floor of a tower block. He had a Latin motto I translate as Happy the man who lives no higher than the tenth floor
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I suspect we won't be told anything other than 'he is comfortable / in good spirits' until he's much better, or...
PM taken to intensive care https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-52192604Posted 5 years ago # -
Raab acting PM.
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Dominic Raab at the helm of draconian emergency powers then.
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Happy the man who lives no higher than the tenth floor
I've been told that Edinburgh city chambers was the first eleven storey building in the world*. If so, then Edinburgh is arguably the cause of much unhappiness in the world?
*I've never managed to verify this, find it slightly hard to believe, and probably remembered it wrong in the first place...
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I have a feeling that might be trueish. Old Town certainly a pioneer in high, narrow buildings, though the Romans already had flats. But the steep slope there means that one side of a building built against it will always have several extra floors.
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Possibly -
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By the 1750's, Edinburgh was a booming centre of trade. The City Chambers, built as a Royal Exchange for Merchants to conduct business in, was built above the lower levels of several closes such as the infamous Mary King's close and Craig's Close. Because of space restrictions, tall buildings were built storey upon storey and rooms and cellars were excavated from the ground below street level. The Royal Mile saw the first ever skyscrapers with some buildings exceeding 10 stories high.
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http://www.royal-mile.com/history/oldtown-modern.html
Can’t get precise link. Zoom out and turn 180 -
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Boris
BBC: “No 10 says not on ventilator”.
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seen: "CLAP FOR BORIS - 8PM - TUESDAY 7TH APRIL
It doesn't matter what political party you are in, whether you like him or not. This man is our countries leader. Let's cheer him through this and fill the streets with an appreciation for all that he has done so far.
#Boris Johnson #ClapForBoris"
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Errrm, No. I don't think so...
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Conveniently I will be busy in an online meeting then...
Posted 5 years ago # -
Twitter nicely pointed out that now I will know which of my neighbours to ignore in future.
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