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Do we need a coronavirus thread?
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UK - most lenient lock down?
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What about Sweden?
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Sweden going ok according to customer in Vaxjo.
Flour supply. Big bakeries in Scotland and elsewhere get flour from here.
Carrs in Kirkcaldy has increased production of home baking packs - unprecedented rise.
https://carrsflour.co.uk/trade/hutchisons-mill/Posted 4 years ago # -
Sweden maybe about to tighten up, depends on body count
Worked with a few Swedes on GIRFEC and freedom to choose Versus Benign State Intervention is an interesting axis for them
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More shops will reopen in the Czech Republic next week, says Deputy PM
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Utterly grim scenes on C4 News of dead bodies in the street in the Ecuadorian capital. Preceded by almost equally grim scenes of mass graves in NYC.
Poorer countries, those without comprehensive health care systems or efficiently functioning governments are going to be hit really hard.
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Some of the 57,000 people who are under orders to stay home have apparently slipped out by leaving behind their smartphones, which are currently used to monitor movement.
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https://www.theedinburghreporter.co.uk/2020/04/murrayfield-hospital-handed-over-to-the-nhs/#
They have been doing nothing but NHS cases for a few weeks, but now 'official'. Confess it terrifies me every day my wife goes to work, luckily she only does 25 hours so is only potentially exposed 2 days a week.
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"Work continues on Edinburgh tax office despite FM ban."
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Edinburgh hospital, and care staff still not getting PPE. ScotGov still appears to be failing here...
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Opinion
Coronavirus has exposed the myth of British exceptionalism
Fintan O’Toole...
The Sun reported the prime minister’s remarks rather differently: “Mr Johnson said he realised it went against what he called ‘the inalienable free-born right of people born in England to go to the pub’.” In this version, the freedom to go to the pub was conferred by genetics and history, not on the “people of the United Kingdom” or “the British people”, but on “people born in England”. It does not apply to Scots, Welsh or Northern Irish people and certainly not to the 9.4 million people living in the UK who were born abroad. It is a particular Anglo-Saxon privilege.
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Lidl at Dalry has lots of flour as of 45 minutes ago.
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@SRD - Carr's mill in Kirkcaldy must have upped their game!
South Africa has had 'only' 24 deaths (as of today) attributed to CV-19.
- From BBC yesterday
"SA government announced that senior politicians would donate a third of their salaries to help those worst affected by the pandemic and urged business leaders to do the same.South Africa has recorded 1,934 confirmed cases of Covid-19, the respiratory illness caused by coronavirus, including 18 deaths.
The country has some of the most stringent lockdown restrictions in the world - no jogging outside, no sales of alcohol or cigarettes, no dog-walking, no leaving home except for essential trips and prison or heavy fines for law-breaking."
'Normal' homicide death rate in SA is average of 58 per day but has fallen greatly. Domestic abuse rising.
Lockdown to continue though. Opposition party want it lifted.
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This brilliant, a socially isolating bicycle. https://youtu.be/vZFDNR9V5Nc
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Is this made up - must be surely?
If untrue, someone in admin remove please, ta!
“Three hundred thousand and thirty four, nine hundred and seventy four thousand tests carried out.”
https://t.co/JoYVCP5GQzPosted 4 years ago # -
Jason Leitch is not a mountain biker maybe :-)
https://www.thenational.scot/news/18373337.row-problematic-definition-lockdown-exercise/
@iwrats - maybe referring to the 'norm' of car assisted trips?
- "But Jason Leitch’s comments have sparked questions from the Green MSP Andy Wightman, who said the National Clinical Director’s comments were “problematic.”
Speaking at the daily coronavirus briefing alongside the First Minster earlier today, Professor Leitch urged Scots to “stay the course” on social distancing and spend as much of this weekend indoors.
“You can leave home for the four reasons that you now know well,” he said.
“Can I just emphasise that exercise is exercise, not recreation, not your hobby. It's not the time to go mountain biking. You need to just use it for 30, up to 60 minutes from your home to exercise to stay healthy and then stay at home."
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“Jason Leitch is not a mountain biker maybe”
Depends what you mean about “mountain biker”.
He was talking about how he liked cycling on radio a day or two ago.
‘The’ point is about undertaking ‘risky’ activity and potentially needing emergency services.
Personally I think jogging should be banned.
So easy to trip and need a trip to A@E.
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Two distinct issues - 1. Driving to a mountain bike trail and 2, Falling off on the trail and injuring yourself unnecessarily involving NHS.
If you live in Innerleithen Iimagine you could cycle from your house to the trails and hopefully be so familiar with them you don’t fall off?
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If you live in Innerleithen I imagine you could cycle from your house to the trails
Whit?
Back in the day, we wuid've biked o'er they Pentlands tae get tae they trails an' then hoiked the bikes back agin o'er those Pentlands...
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It all sounds a bit Presbyterian. If you're grimly exercising because it's good for you, that's fine. As soon as you start enjoying it, it's recreation, so banned.
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"Personally I think jogging should be banned".
Like all these folk running in the empty streets are falling over?
Dumb.
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Personally I think jogging should be banned.
Me too. Walk or run, but if you can't do either don't move at all. It's undignified.
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Interesting comparison to Ireland...
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Earlier lockdown is a factor in Ireland’s lower death rate, But so is rurality. Ireland Scotland comparison would be a better comparison.
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