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  1. minus six
    Member

    thanks baldcyclist-san, that link confirms it for me, we started showing symptoms march 5th

    if i've not said it before -

    this is not a viral infection, it is akin to high altitude sickness

    your blood oxygen levels will plummet without any lung damage

    you may be at risk of blood clots across multiple organs

    EVERYONE make sure you have an oxygen saturation monitor in the house and take frequent readings when compromised

    anything under 95 is very poor, but if this gets anywhere near 90 and stays there, consider hospital assistance immediately

    das ist alles

    Posted 5 years ago #

  2. I were right about that saddle
    Member

    The cartoon on this is so mad.

    The right hand side should a mass grave dug on a football pitch. And Mr Johnston should be in the boot of the car with a new girlfriend and his snuff box. And Ms Sturgeon should be cautiously and pragmatically wondering if she should get into the boot of her car too.

    Posted 5 years ago #

  3. dessert rat
    Member

    The cartoon on this is so mad.

    meh, he's missed a trick there. No Conga or Union Jacks.

    Posted 5 years ago #

  4. I were right about that saddle
    Member

    I love that the 'Scottish' side of the hedge has brick-built houses and a Norman-pattern church. The artist is actually trying to invoke the notion of different leadership for England and having to use Scotland as an allegory.

    Three weeks from now the second wave.

    Posted 5 years ago #

  5. LaidBack
    Member

    There is a solution.... (!)

    https://www.thenational.scot/news/18441642.tory-mp-wants-welsh-parliament-abolished-can-go-beach/

    Posted 5 years ago #

  6. chdot
    Admin

    “

    Avoid using public transport, suggests our prime minister: but that is rather easier for high earners, almost all of whom have access to a car, compared to the poorest, over half of whom do not. The children of the well-to-do can not only frolic in suburban gardens, but can now enjoy car journeys to the Peak District and the Broads; many of the urban poor, crammed into tower blocks and overcrowded council estates, do not have that option.

    “

    https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/may/12/boris-johnson-working-class-good-luck

    Posted 5 years ago #

  7. chdot
    Admin

    “

    Anyone who needs to take public transport should wear face masks, keep their distance from fellow travellers and avoid rush hour if possible, the Department for Transport (DfT) said.

    But the DfT conceded that “there will be times and some settings on public transport where social distancing is not possible”.

    “

    https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/may/12/physical-distancing-public-transport-dft-government-advice-lockdown

    Posted 5 years ago #

  8. Baldcyclist
    Member

    “there will be times and some settings on public transport where social distancing is not possible”

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-52629644

    Sell all seats, wear masks, quarantine a waste of time and everyone will ignore it...

    Posted 5 years ago #

  9. chdot
    Admin

    ‘Led by science’...

    “

    The minister also clarified it was possible to see one parent and then another outdoors “10 minutes apart” but that giving people social hugs would only be possible after a treatment or vaccine would be found, which at the earliest could be in the autumn.

    “

    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/12/matt-hancock-tries-to-clear-up-confusion-over-coronavirus-advice

    Posted 5 years ago #

  10. chdot
    Admin

    “

    UK furlough scheme extended by four months

    “

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-52634759

    Posted 5 years ago #

  11. steveo
    Member

    Wife is away to the western for plague testing.

    Posted 5 years ago #

  12. Morningsider
    Member

    @steveo - that's tough. I hope it comes back all clear.

    Posted 5 years ago #

  13. ejstubbs
    Member

    @chdot: matt-hancock-tries-to-clear-up-confusion-over-coronavirus-advice

    Am I alone in despairing at a Government which appears to be unable to communicate clearly and effectively? It's two days now since BJ said what he said and they're still having to wheel out ministers to try to explain what it actually meant?

    So much for the idea that being taught Latin (which BJ is oh so fond of spouting) enhances one's language skills.

    I find it doubly annoying because, up until I retired, a key part of my job was creating written communications for the benefit people needing to use complicated things (specifically, computer systems). Clarity and conciseness - with clarity taking priority - were my perpetual goals. If I'd have come up with some of the incomprehensible waffle that dribbles forth from these highly paid servants of the populace on a regular basis I would have regarded it as entirely reasonable for my employer to dock my wages.

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  14. chdot
    Admin

    “Am I alone in despairing at a Government“

    NO

    Posted 5 years ago #

  15. chdot
    Admin

    “some of the incomprehensible waffle that dribbles forth from these highly paid servants of the populace”

    But that’s the thing.

    How much of the contentious stuff originated with politicians/close advisors?

    Might be the case that experienced CSs were unwilling/unable to persuade PM/Ministers(?)

    Posted 5 years ago #

  16. jdanielp
    Member

    Bewildering... https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p08cxwgk

    Posted 5 years ago #

  17. chdot
    Admin

    “

    UK coronavirus death toll in huge jump as another 627 die bringing total to 32,692

    “

    https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/breaking-uk-coronavirus-death-toll-22015741

    Posted 5 years ago #

  18. chdot
    Admin

    Also, is “alert” a civil service word??

    Posted 5 years ago #

  19. crowriver
    Member

    "Alert" always reminds me of...

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    Posted 5 years ago #

  20. crowriver
    Member

    OTOH...

    https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/black-country/watch-dalek-doctor-who-enforces-18080271

    Posted 5 years ago #

  21. ejstubbs
    Member

    Also in North Yorkshire: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/06/self-isolate-mystery-dalek-orders-humans-in-the-age-of-coronavirus (seems to pre-date the Sedgley one by a few days - and it's black dalek, which were always the more scary ones.)

    Posted 5 years ago #

  22. Murun Buchstansangur
    Member

    Jim Ratcliffe (net worth £10bn+, Monaco tax exile) has the begging bowl out again...

    https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/politics/ineos-owners-energy-firm-talks-22017151

    Posted 5 years ago #

  23. I were right about that saddle
    Member

    Das Shok Doktrin von Naomi Klein.

    Posted 5 years ago #

  24. chdot
    Admin

    From link -

    “

    Anuja Sonalker, the CEO of Steer Tech, a Maryland-based company selling self-parking technology, recently summed up the new virus-personalised pitch. “There has been a distinct warming up to humanless, contactless technology,” she said. “Humans are biohazards, machines are not.”

    “

    Ok...

    Posted 5 years ago #

  25. fimm
    Member

    No idea where this came from:
    "Be alert - your country needs lerts.
    Be aloof - your country has enough lerts."

    My mother and I were quoting it at one another so it must be Old.

    Posted 5 years ago #

  26. gembo
    Member

    WWII?

    Posted 5 years ago #

  27. I were right about that saddle
    Member

    Humans are biohazards, machines are not.

    I would not rule out the chance to conserve a nucleus of human specimens.

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    Posted 5 years ago #

  28. crowriver
    Member

    Yeah, computer systems are never affected by viruses, ever. Or hacking, or malware, or plain old bad programming.

    Posted 5 years ago #

  29. CycleAlex
    Member

    Noticed quite a few builders at work today. BoJo saying they need to get back to work without specifying England only probably doesn't help.

    Although I would quite like the tram works to get back up and running.

    Posted 5 years ago #

  30. chdot
    Admin

    “

    Many of the new emerging hotspots, both rural and urban, are in states where governors refused to issue stay-at-home orders, or are following Trump’s advice to relax lockdown restrictions despite public health warnings about the dangers of doing so too soon.

    “

    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/13/new-us-coronavirus-hotspots-republican-heartland-areas

    Posted 5 years ago #

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