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Originally posted by Nocturnal Submission View Post
I presume that you're aware that your household is about to move into Tier 2, (well, your neighbours too)?
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Yet another example about how wrong the west keeps getting this disease.
Hitoshi Oshitani, a member of the National COVID-19 Cluster Taskforce at Japan’s Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare and a professor at Tohoku University who told me that Japan focused on the overdispersion impact from early on, likens his country’s approach to looking at a forest and trying to find the clusters, not the trees. Meanwhile, he believes, the Western world was getting distracted by the trees, and got lost among them. To fight a super-spreading disease effectively, policy makers need to figure out why super-spreading happens, and they need to understand how it affects everything, including our contact-tracing methods and our testing regimes.
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Started feeling tired, tight-chested and developed a cough yesterday lunchtime. Could have been tested in the afternoon at a walk-in, but preferred to go in the car this morning. Once again, extremely well organised and door to door the whole process took less than 30 minutes. My only worry is whether I swab my tonsils adequately, I gag as soon as the swab gets near them.
Feels like flu, but the tight chest is a worry, daughter has a cough but is her usual energetic self, wife has a sore throat.
I think I've caught it from the sandpit toys I took to local playground, which get a fair bit of usage from other kids, rather than school/work.
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- Mar 2008
- 19101
- Revelling In The Hole
- England, Chelsea and Tooting and Mitcham. And Surrey CCC. And Wimbledon Dons Speedway (RIP)
- Nairn's Cheese Oatcake
Originally posted by Ray de Galles View Post
Yes, found out just after I made that post. We are unique amongst Surrey boroughs in being moved up too, we're pariahs to the rest of the county!
I understand that residents' associations in the surrounding boroughs are already setting up road blocks.
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- Mar 2008
- 19101
- Revelling In The Hole
- England, Chelsea and Tooting and Mitcham. And Surrey CCC. And Wimbledon Dons Speedway (RIP)
- Nairn's Cheese Oatcake
Originally posted by steveeeeeeeee View PostStarted feeling tired, tight-chested and developed a cough yesterday lunchtime. Could have been tested in the afternoon at a walk-in, but preferred to go in the car this morning. Once again, extremely well organised and door to door the whole process took less than 30 minutes. My only worry is whether I swab my tonsils adequately, I gag as soon as the swab gets near them.
Feels like flu, but the tight chest is a worry, daughter has a cough but is her usual energetic self, wife has a sore throat.
I think I've caught it from the sandpit toys I took to local playground, which get a fair bit of usage from other kids, rather than school/work.
Best of luck with that. There are a lot of colds and bugs around at this time of the year, so fingers crossed that it's on of those.
Tonsil-swabbing is much harder than it sounds.
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1351 people test positive for Covid-19 in last 24 hours in Scotland,17.6% of those tested.
601 people in hospital with a confirmed case (+31), 51 being treated in intensive care (+2).
13 deaths recorded in the last 24 hours.
Todays numbers in the central belt -
Greater Glasgow & Clyde: 450
Lanarkshire: 374
Lothian: 161
Ayrshire and Arran: 111
I can't think of a worse time for an Old Firm derby.
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Originally posted by anton pulisov View PostYet another example about how wrong the west keeps getting this disease.
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Originally posted by elguapo4 View Post
This must be the first time since the Act of Union that one country in the UK has closed its borders to citizens of another one.Last edited by Jimski; 15-10-2020, 17:33.
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Seems as if the US has noticed the Great Barrington declaration and responded appropriately:
https://twitter.com/ashishkjha/status/1316777133616910336
and
https://twitter.com/DrTomFrieden/status/1316792808750100483
Last edited by Jimski; 15-10-2020, 18:45.
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The Great Barrington declaration is obvious cockrot. You can start by their premise that you can keep people with comorbidities out of circulation in order to develop herd immunity elsewhere. Even if that were possible and ethical (neither is true, obviously), 70% of the US population is technically overweight and 35% is obese, so even if the remaining 30/65% all get covid and all develop perfect immunity, that's not enough for herd immunity to work. Add in the non-obese population over 65, the non-obese, under-65 population that has other comorbidities, and the fact that you can't fully cordon off the susceptible from the non-susceptible, and add in the fact that death isn't the only shitty outcome from Covid and you can see what utter wibbling nonsense the whole concept is.
The amazing thing is that they've managed to get anyone at all to sign on to it.
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I probably should have researched this before I drove there, but it turns out that while San Mateo County has indoors dining and movie cinemas etc open, the parks are not (or at least the two I went to this morning). Which makes zero sense to me. The first one I picked because it's never been crowded when I've been there, park number 2 because it was close to park number 1. Park number 3 (now in Santa Clara county) was open, but all the parking was taken (possibly related to the other parks being closed) so we gave up and went home.
edit: also picked those three because they allow dogs.
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https://www.thejournal.ie/factcheck-...34373-Oct2020/
Super bizarre ad taken out by an irish libertarian tech bro sociopath bigging up the great barrington declaration. It's full of dishonest, or twisted bollocks. Look at the first two points.
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