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Post by slowcoach on Jun 10, 2020 13:25:46 GMT 2
I am listening to PMQs (UK Prime Minister's Questions) and the Prime Minister is out of his depth. That is a serious state of affairs in a country facing an ongoing pandemic and perhaps an oncoming catastrophe.
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Post by shrjeff on Jun 10, 2020 17:53:53 GMT 2
even so, slow, he's still better prepared than trump...
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Post by Baz Faz on Jun 10, 2020 18:18:21 GMT 2
...but that is small praise.
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Post by Netsuke on Jun 11, 2020 1:49:55 GMT 2
Our Prime Minister is doing a pretty good job although I disagreed with him trying to get schools to reopen earlier. Still, it's a tough job making tough decisions during world pandemic. All in all, Mr Morrison isn't doing too badly.
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Post by kerouac2 on Jun 11, 2020 17:59:35 GMT 2
Paris continues to reopen cautiously. There are a few clusters here and there in France, but nothing alarming (except in Guiana which abuts Brazil -- no explanation necessary since there are thousands of illegal Brazilians in Guiana).
Anyway, here is a little video of Paris without tourists that I made yesterday.
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Post by Baz Faz on Jun 11, 2020 18:14:07 GMT 2
Eerily empty. Also it looks cold with people in coats.
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Post by sophie on Jun 11, 2020 18:51:17 GMT 2
Yes, eerie. And the pigeons are taking over!
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Post by slowcoach on Jun 21, 2020 14:18:53 GMT 2
The new normal: the Spanish State of Alarm/Emergency is over.
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Post by tzarine on Jun 23, 2020 22:53:37 GMT 2
nyc has reopened the masqueless cavalierly infect cant comprehend why seniors go out sans masque people are totally disregarding any distance rules
it's gonna be a turbulent autumn
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Post by auntieannie on Jun 25, 2020 10:41:21 GMT 2
There was a feature here recently, stating that although the overall number of new cases in Switzerland remained low, most of them came from my area and this was a concern. So, I was happy to see many more people wearing masks at the supermarket yesterday morning. Maybe the message is getting through.
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Post by auntieannie on Jun 25, 2020 18:38:20 GMT 2
swiss Covid app is now up and running !
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Post by slowcoach on Jun 26, 2020 13:45:37 GMT 2
There has been a bit of rather well deserved fuss (British Medical Journal) over the governments procurement of 10 million COVID-19 antibody test kits and what exactly the government intend to do with them. They have gone from being a PM Johnson`s potential game changer to an expensive way of obtaining somewhat interesting but individually useless information regarding whether you have had COVID-19 or not.
The BBC News did a Vox Pop to find out what the word is one the street, which brought us this gem from a man outside a Sainsbury's Store:
What are the chances that he did something sensible about it, like stayed home?
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Post by slowcoach on Jul 7, 2020 8:42:19 GMT 2
They come from far and wide, the Zombies do. From furthest Spain, France, Switzerland, they converge on our little hamlet. The border guards no longer fulfil their offices and the checkpoints are abandoned.
They came at the weekend, they came without warning, like a scene from the film, they wandered around with outstretching arms, to be dodged, warded off. Onwards came the Living Dead.
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Post by Baz Faz on Jul 7, 2020 11:14:58 GMT 2
The Prime Minister shows his incompetence yet again.
There have been about 30,000 deaths in care homes in England attributable to coronavirus. According to Joris Bonksome this was because the care homes "didn't really follow the procedures". Au contraire, prime minister, it is because old sick people in hospital (and they weren't languishing in hospital to have a holiday but because they were really sick) were moved out of their beds and transferred to care homes so that coronavirus sufferers (such as the PM) could have their beds. Most of them weren't tested for coronavirus. The plague spread round the care homes. Excess deaths resulted.
Once again the PM tries to shift the blame to someone else.
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Post by tzarine on Jul 7, 2020 18:52:37 GMT 2
oh those cali beaches disney world texas parks the numbers are rising in those states
jair is positive
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Post by auntieannie on Jul 10, 2020 21:07:38 GMT 2
Today, I inaugurated my new face shield. it is better than a mask for work, but mine is a tad on the flimsy side and I worry about breaking it when I try and secure it on my head. Also it does get slightly claustrophobic under it, although not as breath-taking as when wearing a mask.
and I have to take it off when putting my glasses on or off.
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Post by slowcoach on Jul 15, 2020 8:46:59 GMT 2
Returned some books to the local library. They have a table inside the entrance. Dump books on table, leave library. I suppose you can browse for a new book if you want.
The books go from the table into storage for two weeks before being returned to the shelves.
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Post by tzarine on Jul 15, 2020 17:52:42 GMT 2
slow
some of our libraries was reopened & are doing drop offs as well, but alas not our branch how i miss going there, going up the spiral staircase & looking @ the stained glass windows
the premature openings are really hurting cali, texas & fla fam is in cali. many friends in texas
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Post by slowcoach on Jul 23, 2020 4:26:25 GMT 2
Problems return. Outbreak in Cataluña intensifying. Flight to second homes.
New piece of essential PPE: the walking stick.
Keep your distance or take one in the ribs.
Owing to Francoist social engineering, many people from around here migrated to Cataluña or País Vasco to grab one of the jobs being created there, send for their families, thus diluting the local population in an attempt to produce a Spanish majority. Many of these people have second homes here.
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Post by sophie on Jul 23, 2020 7:09:06 GMT 2
Stay safe, slow.
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Post by auntieannie on Jul 23, 2020 11:56:16 GMT 2
more countries added to the list of places from which people have to quarantine upon entry into Switzerland. But the numbers started rising about two weeks after they reopened the borders. It seems to me that politics are stopping my government from requiring quarantine from Schengen area countries.
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Post by Voy on Jul 23, 2020 14:41:33 GMT 2
my friend down the lane, here at the lake,has her daughter and granddaughter coming from Florida today.... they will be tested here ( as not available in Florida !!!) so she says in 72 hours.... but I don't care. I'm not going near them. and that means my friends as well - and she is gonna be pissed. he understands. shit. it's not going to be easy.
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Post by kuskiwi on Jul 23, 2020 20:19:18 GMT 2
Keep well away voy.
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Post by tzarine on Jul 24, 2020 3:35:02 GMT 2
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Post by slowcoach on Jul 24, 2020 13:04:23 GMT 2
^
I will try, we do try!
I have been worrying about how to quantify how safe/risky certain situations are. For instance, popping back to the shops because some purchase got forgotten, as opposed to waiting until next week.
Feeling a need to put some sort of value or number to characterise my behaviour, other than it being overly retentive, I wondered whether it would be possible to construct a personalised "R" number, e.g. what would be the societal R number if everyone behaved as I.
If one knew ones value was above 1 then clearly that needs fixing.
Unfortunately it is complicated and it would give rise to some surprises. E.G. My chances of catching and, in normal circumstances, spreading the disease is rather low, unless I got it bad and required intensive treatment in which case the risk I would pose would be much higher. All that would have to be taken into consideration and that is not easily done.
The obvious goal would be to get the value below 1 for everyone or almost everyone. That would imply that those whose risk of contracting the disease is high should work to ensure that their chances of passing it on are kept low.iv
Now there is nothing new there, that is precisely what we try to do, or perhaps rather what most of us try to do. It is more or less just stating the bleeding obvious, but there seems to be a relatively small number of people who just don't get it, and given that their personalised R value is likely to above 1 (R>1) , quite likely to much larger, (R>>1) they are a, or perhaps the, problem.
It ain't rocket science, it is why a little bit of risky behaviour, going shopping, is followed by a countermeasure, quarantining many of the goods, personal disinfecting before entering the house, throwing outer clothing into the washing machine and turning it on, etc..
To our minds we have just gone out and risked bringing disease back to the hamlet and that needs limitation.
It would be nice if there was a way to turn ones behaviour into a score, I already instinctively rate other people in a similar way, so if I think you have come to our province to escape the situation in Northeastern Spain don't be surprised if I cross the street to avoid you, but do be offended, it might just do you some good, you (R>>1) bastards.
I can go back to sleep now. Ho Hum!
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Post by Baz Faz on Jul 25, 2020 18:28:57 GMT 2
Sign in a town in Wales:
Coronavirus: Signs tell shoppers 'stay seven Chihuahuas apart'
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Post by kuskiwi on Jul 25, 2020 21:18:26 GMT 2
Suddenly an abusive father who his wife and kids haven't seen for years dies and becomes a saint so they all fly home from Aust for his tangi funeral and his family here don't think to delay the service to allow for quarantine and the incomers do a runner. Caught but one was away for 12 hours. Hopefully negative. Now they are pleading poverty. Sympathy level is very low.
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Post by slowcoach on Jul 26, 2020 10:02:47 GMT 2
The Hamilton Escapees, I read about them.
Wanted: A dungeon, below a keep, on a motte, inside a bailey, with a surrounding moat, located on an island, in a lake, at the bottom of a crater, atop a volcano, standing alone in a shark infested ocean.
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Post by Baz Faz on Jul 27, 2020 19:19:47 GMT 2
Someone sent us an email with a photo of a shop sign:
If you come into the store without a mask we will have to take your temperature. PS We only have rectal thermometers.
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Post by tzarine on Jul 27, 2020 21:10:23 GMT 2
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