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My mother in law was taken in hospital with Covid-19 last week but is home now and apparently recovering okay, which is a particular relief because I'd need more than the fingers of one hand to count her underlying health conditions.
Meanwhile, everything I'm hearing from people I know who work in them is that it's really sweeping through care homes round here at the moment. My wife's next test is this Friday (she works in a care home), so we'll find out whether it's swept into our house yet then, I guess. Her best friend is self-isolating after a positive test at the end of last week.
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Jesus. That's Good news about your MIL Ian. Hope you are all OK.
We seem to be doing a better job at keeping it out of care homes this time. I mean it couldn't possibly be any worse. We emptied the hospitals before the development of a proper test, and sent covid positive patients into nearly every care home in the country, with horrendous results.Last edited by The Awesome Berbaslug!!!; 18-11-2020, 15:13.
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Originally posted by Patrick Thistle View Post41 deaths in Wales but new cases have dropped compared to yesterday so maybe the fire break worked and slowed transmission rate.
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Originally posted by The Awesome Berbaslug!!! View Postthe 14 day incidence per 100,000 is your best bet. That's where the impact of the measures is going to show up, also it doesn't jump around so much which helps with the overwhelming gloom and anxiety.
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Originally posted by Patrick Thistle View Post41 deaths in Wales but new cases have dropped compared to yesterday so maybe the fire break worked and slowed transmission rate.
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But still OPEN THE SHOPS scream "Retail Excellence Ireland". Am I wrong in thinking once upon a time RTE may have had someone representing the poor fuckers expected to work in the shops being interviewed as well as some bleedin industry lobby group?
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Originally posted by ursus arctos View PostIt is as of Stanford saw John Yoo at Berkeley and said Hold my Beer
(UC Berkeley as an institution and as a student population is far more conservative than most people reckon in any case.)
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I read today that Finland have trained dogs to smell corona virus positive people and they are proving more accurate (or close to) as actual tests. They use them at the airport and identify all the incoming people who need to be quarantined (or something like that). Why do other countries not do this? Or, alternatively, is this story bollocks?
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Originally posted by ad hoc View PostI read today that Finland have trained dogs to smell corona virus positive people and they are proving more accurate (or close to) as actual tests. They use them at the airport and identify all the incoming people who need to be quarantined (or something like that). Why do other countries not do this? Or, alternatively, is this story bollocks?
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The Guardian reported on this Finnish dog story at the end of September. They (not The Guardian) trained sixteen dogs to smell Covid in your sweat, several days before you would start showing symptoms. It makes sense that dogs, with their substantially better sense of smell than humans, can be trained to do this.
Sixteen dogs are likely to suffice to cover international travel at Helsinki Airport, but I imagine that there are substantial problems in scaling this up to a global level. Not enough dogs, not enough trainers, not enough time to train.Last edited by Wouter D; 18-11-2020, 21:01.
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Originally posted by Incandenza View PostNYC are closing schools again. No increase in infections have been tied to schools opening, and bars/restaurants and gyms are allowed to remain open.
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Originally posted by ad hoc View PostI read today that Finland have trained dogs to smell corona virus positive people and they are proving more accurate (or close to) as actual tests. They use them at the airport and identify all the incoming people who need to be quarantined (or something like that). Why do other countries not do this? Or, alternatively, is this story bollocks?
https://www.finavia.fi/en/newsroom/2...at%20airports.
https://yle.fi/uutiset/osasto/news/uncertain_future_for_airport_covid_sniffer_dogs/11589182
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Do we reckon anybody (governmentally-speaking) outside East Asia has actually learned anything about handling pandemics from this?
It seems that many (most) of the same mistakes are still being made now as they were earlier in the year, so I'm leaning towards we'll be equally screwed when the next one comes along (maybe more, maybe less, depending on how the virus (or whatever) compares with the current one). All this not being helped by those in government who see their role as making money for themselves and friends rather than actually addressing the issues at hand. Or are the same mistakes being made simply because they've given up? Some countries may be exceptions.
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Originally posted by S. aureus View PostDo we reckon anybody (governmentally-speaking) outside East Asia has actually learned anything about handling pandemics from this?
It seems that many (most) of the same mistakes are still being made now as they were earlier in the year, so I'm leaning towards we'll be equally screwed when the next one comes along (maybe more, maybe less, depending on how the virus (or whatever) compares with the current one). All this not being helped by those in government who see their role as making money for themselves and friends rather than actually addressing the issues at hand. Or are the same mistakes being made simply because they've given up? Some countries may be exceptions.
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