Coronavirus outbreak

[mjr]

So the PPE from Turkey has arrived. Well sort of turns out they only sent one aeroplane. Which is not big enough. So only half the stuff has arrived. They’ve now put the RAF back on standby to get the rest

In other news the briefing today will be hosted by cocoa the clown.

Oddly, the BBC TV headline news this morning mentioned none of that.

 

[tom73]

I read the problem for all that was at our end.

Most likely yes won't surprise me if the RAF told them but they said send it anyway as it look's good for the TV.

On the news last night BBC reported from Turkey they've filled school class rooms with equipment and got the teachers making PPE on mass.
They had the whole thing up and running in a week it looked to be all joined up and working well.
Making so much they've sent stuff all over the world
The education minister said it was the least they could do to help.
Meanwhile old Matt and co are running round like headless chickens.

 

[MarkF]

Talking to guys in the USA this morning and there is no way they would have a jab in the arm, not they are not getting the message out there.

Vaccine disasters in the USA are infamous.

 

[tom73]

So is the wooden tops anti-vac brigade.

 

[marinyork]

Guardian expose on PPE storage

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...-ppe-stockpile-was-sold-in-middle-of-pandemic

 

[tom73]

Guardian expose on PPE storage

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...-ppe-stockpile-was-sold-in-middle-of-pandemic

FFS you can't make this stuff up.

 

[matticus]

View attachment 516960

I've deliberately avoided looking for decent graphs of this for a couple of weeks (for varous reasons!):

But this seems pretty clear indication that we're on a down-slope. Doesn't it? It doesn't matter about lag (that would just delay the peak). I'm not aware of testing getting *worse*. What am I missing?

 

[marinyork]

I've deliberately avoided looking for decent graphs of this for a couple of weeks (for varous reasons!):

But this seems pretty clear indication that we're on a down-slope. Doesn't it? It doesn't matter about lag (that would just delay the peak). I'm not aware of testing getting *worse*. What am I missing?

The numbers of patients in hospital for covid-19 graphs are mostly flat or declining and have been for days.

Discussion around this has been that the peak in London may have been 8th April or more recently.

It may be many weeks of slow downward trend, that is the case in Italy.

 

[kingrollo]

Sheilding letter this morning - 12 weeks from date of letter...

 

[tom73]

Well that's Mrs 73 seen off on her 1st rapid response shift. In at the deep end on Covid respiratory unit let's hope she won't need her ventilator skills or even more so her palliative care ones.
Stay safe everyone and keep her and 1000's of others safe too.

 

[mjr]

Electronic Frontier Foundation covid-19 and privacy event 8pm tonight: https://www.eff.org/event/home-eff-covid-19-free-speech-and-privacy

 

[mjr]

Discussion around this has been that the peak in London may have been 8th April or more recently.

That seems surprising when Belgium I think declared its peak as probably 12th/13th and is thought to be a week ahead of us (and about a week behind Italy).

Other rtbf news today: debates about end-of-year uni exams, mask-wearing, observation of Luxembourg relaxing its measures but requiring lots of mask-wearing and details of what the Belgian expert commission is expected to suggest for relaxation there. If I've understood it correctly, recreational activities of up to 10 people may be authorised. Oh and today would have been the Flèche Wallonne but it's banned so they sent a reporter to ride up the deserted 19% Mur de Huy.

 

[mjr]

On a lighter note, Germany's heute show continues to rip the pee-pee out of the wildly inconsistent application of lockdown between Germany's states: "The Constitution Takes a Holiday", picture of a tank drone (converted bomb robot?) shouting at a woman to go home, "Millions of Germans Cannot Read Properly", picnicking in Cologne with beer and junk food bought from a park kiosk is legal but it becomes criminal (€250 fine IIRC) if you bring homebaked cakes. and that's not even the daftest ones they showed but the others don't photo as well!

 

[mjr]

Well, it was somewhat startling to switch on the TV for the daily briefing and be greeted by a man in camouflage (Chief of Defence Staff Carter, apparently). We started wondering if Boris has been watching, decided he has no confidence in the cabinet and handed the country over to the army for safekeeping until he's well...

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

Here's one for idiots like me who smoke - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...-smokers-at-lower-risk-of-getting-coronavirus

If you smoke and catch CV-19 you're quite likely to have more severe respiratory complications. On the other hand, if you smoke, it looks like you're significantly less likely to catch it.

(For the record, I think I caught CV-19 at the end of late February, but I still have a bad cough since the illness.)