non-covid stuff just isn't happening, chdot
either at local medical centres or hospitals
both are closed, doors locked, invite only
frightening times, eh.. walpurgisnacht..
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Do we need a coronavirus thread?
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Join us online on Thursday 30 April to celebrate BOnFire, a virtual festival created by us to help our worldwide community mark Beltane remotely.
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Virtual Beltane who would have thought those two words would collide
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Hope they are not colliding, need to keep 2m apart.
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Didn't The Fall play the Beltane one year?
Marquee tent up top Calton hill?
i mean i half remember being there, maybe was dream though
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Ha !
it was real, but august 94, not beltane
https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/the-fall/1994/calton-hill-acropolis-edinburgh-scotland-3e0d13b.html
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Of course this government are failing to deal with a pandemic. At the fag end of neoliberalism, they don’t exist to do much more than transfer public assets into private hands. What we’re living through is exactly what would happen if we’d elected a firm of bailiffs to cure polio. That’s not to say that they won’t use this crisis, as they would any other, to advance a profoundly reactionary agenda. The austerity they’ll tell us they need to introduce to pay for this will make the last decade seem like Christmas at Elton John’s house.
https://theovertake.com/~beta/frankie-boyle-were-knee-deep-in-shit-and-drinking-cups-of-tea/
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Oh yes Bax we were there. Mark E had been drinking all day and hadn’t been to the soundcheck. He didn’t like the microphones so he flung one into the crowd. Brix was back but someone stole her set list so she did not know what to play. mark e insisted we give it back. We declined. Another mike into the audience. Possible contender for best worst gig ever. We asked for money back but were offered free entry into some rubbish nightclub on the Calton.
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splendid anecdote, gembo-san
this is what its all about
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Some say they should be grateful, for the things they have
It's only them who feels it, knows it
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Bax, all the best to both you and your partner.
Take care.
Cheers
ColinPosted 5 years ago # -
that means everything to me colin, god bless you
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@bax wishing your partner a speedy and full recovery.
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cheers nobrakes
kreuzberg mayday liveblog
heating up oranienstrasse around 16:30
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122,000 tests carried out yesterday...
I wonder if Scotland hit it's 3500 test per day target?
BBC News - Coronavirus: Target reached as UK tests pass 100,000 a day
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-52508836*Edit Scotland now has capacity for 4350
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@Bax hope your partner recovers quickly.
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thanks baldcyclist - its good news, corona test was neg "though we do assume you have had it" so she stayed in isolation overnight rather than go on the viral ward. additional oxygen has brought pulse and oxygen saturation levels back to near normal. so its all good meantime.
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Sounds good.
Any ‘insight’ from "though we do assume you have had it"?
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Hancock says UK hit 100,000 tests amid claims tally is artificially boosted
Government now counting ordered or posted home testing kits even before sample taken
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@bax
Heavenly witness. Good stuff.
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Glad your partner @bax got back home even though the 'assume she had it' phrase has probably been used to point of wearing out.
Stress on hospital staff of course as everyone wants to know things 'for sure'.
Best wishes to you all for calmer end of week.Posted 5 years ago # -
Good stuff @Bax San
Now I dont believe in an interventionist god but i know Bax-san that you do but if I did I would kneel down and ask him not to intervene when it came to you and Mrs Bax-San
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Anecdotal evidence which seems to be largely in agreement with my (and Bax's partner's) unconfirmed Rona experience
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Yes. Mrs nobrakes is nearly 2 months since covid19 and is still struggling for breath when walking up steeper slopes. Some days are worse than others. I seem to be almost back to normal although there is a deep pain in my lungs when I push hard on the bike that wasn’t there before.
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@MediumDave: It is being enforced but I suspect there is a resource issue so they are concentrating on particular areas.
Maybe those areas that plenty of people can walk to anyway, such as the Braids, are de-prioritised?
Three or four cars were parked up here yesterday afternoon. I doubt they were people visiting their horses - in normal times the horsey folks park up by the stables. Again, plenty of housing just beyond the bridge over the bypass (see also Dreghorn & Bonaly) so questioning people walking on that side of the Pentlands isn't likely to net many offenders.
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Mrs nobrakes is nearly 2 months since covid19 and is still struggling for breath when walking up steeper slopes
does she also have dizzy spells and increased heart rate?
post-covid tachycardia seems common in 17% of wuhan study
https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/postural-tachycardia-syndrome/
that's what we are putting it down to
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For a while, but not any more. Just breathless.
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Trains, buses and transport interchanges could also be equipped with hand sanitiser, as hand-washing remained more important than wearing face masks, he suggested.
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Asked whether fewer people would have died if testing capacity had been greater sooner, he told BBC One’s The Andrew Marr Show: “Yes. If we had had 100,000 test capacity before this thing started and the knowledge that we now have retrospectively I’m sure many things could be different.
“The fact of the matter is this is not a country that had - although we’re very big in pharmaceuticals as a country - we’re not a country that had very large test capacity.”
Shapps added the UK may have had a high death rate compared to some other countries because of “density of population”. He said Britain has “denser cities” compared to other countries and the number of deaths are high because the figures are a “product of excellent statisticians counting in a way that other countries don’t”. On the issue of infection rates in care homes, he said: “Infections in care homes are now falling, not rising.” He added that patients and residents of care homes can now be tested.“
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The Guardian write-up of Shapps interview has Shapps saying he thinks Sth Korean style temp checks are redundant as sick people should be at home). There's a classic double wow moment. I'm glad not to have spent time watching the interview but I sort of regret reading the article too now. The main bit is that they'll announce back-to-work ideas "by Thursday".
Update: I take it back - Chdot has filleted some interesting bits there, these acknowledgements of unpreparedness. Grant'll be taking some phone calls from Downing St today maybe!
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