Coronavirus

[SteviegtrParticipant @steviegtr]

Posted by Neil Wyatt on 16/04/2020 00:53:35:

Posted by Steviegtr on 15/04/2020 22:23:28:

Posted by Neil Wyatt on 11/04/2020 18:19:19:

I found this inspiring. He's raised over £100K for NHS charities.

**LINK**

Neil

He was up to 8 million today.

Steve.

10 now!

I see a 106 year old lady who went in to hospital with pneumonia in March has survived coronavirus and just been discharged.

Yes I saw that about the Lady. The old guy ended up with 15 million. Amazing. All for NHS too. Hope it all gets to the right places.

Steve.

[Former MemberParticipant @formermember19781]

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[SteviegtrParticipant @steviegtr]

Posted by Bill Chugg on 17/04/2020 07:59:46:

Posted by Steviegtr on 16/04/2020 23:36:11:

Posted by Neil Wyatt on 16/04/2020 00:53:35:

Posted by Steviegtr on 15/04/2020 22:23:28:

Posted by Neil Wyatt on 11/04/2020 18:19:19:

I found this inspiring. He's raised over £100K for NHS charities.

**LINK**

Neil

He was up to 8 million today.

Steve.

10 now!

I see a 106 year old lady who went in to hospital with pneumonia in March has survived coronavirus and just been discharged.

Yes I saw that about the Lady. The old guy ended up with 15 million. Amazing. All for NHS too. Hope it all gets to the right places.

Steve.

The "old guy" you refer to is a decorated army war veteran . Do have some respect please.

Pleased to see now over the 17m mark.

Bill

Bill I will take that as an insult to me. I respect the old guy, veteran highly. If he had been young would young guy be an insult. P.S at the time I only knew him as a old guy walking for charity.

Steve.

[Former MemberParticipant @formermember19781]

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[GaunlessParticipant @gaunless]

The old guy did a great job.

[Neil WyattModerator @neilwyatt]

Calm down everyone.

There's a hell of a lot more in the world to get worked up about, it looks like lockdown fever is getting to people.

I would be gobsmacked if Tom Moore had any objection to being referred to as an 'old guy' – he seems to have kept his sense of humour.

The comment wasn't disparaging in any way and it's his age that is remarkable, not the fact he's a war veteran; if he'd been a milkman all his life I'd have just as much respect for what he's achieved.

So let's just move along.

Neil

[ChrisHParticipant @chrish]

Quite right Neil – well said!

[Enough!Participant @enough]

How Canada is protecting its currency:

[Danny M2ZParticipant @dannym2z]

It took just one cruise ship to wreak havoc in Australia Ruby Princess .Some state borders are now closed but things are now getting under control. Australian state and territory border closures with a decrease in infections.

Some isolated communities also have locked theselves down Isolated Communities but then might become some of the safest places to be nowadays.

Similar for New Zealand.

Our Australian Govt. has been pushing a phone app today to 'track possible contacts' Contact Tracing App but despite all their promises I just do not trust them to delete data once they have it so shall not avail myself of this hastily concocted snoopware,

So for all our members and your friends and families please keep yourselves safe and healthy.

* Danny M *

[Harry WilkesParticipant @harrywilkes58467]

The down side to this situation we find our selves in my Uncle age 94 ex gunner spent his war time in the far east had a fall Saturday night he was taken to hospital and had sticks in the wound also a scan to make sure no brain bleed all went without any problems given the pressure on our hospitals. Yesterday my cousin (his Daughter) spent over 6.5 hours on the phone trying to get his stiches out, she phoned his Dr as instructed didn't want to know they suggested the practice nurse who didn't want to know bottom line she found a clinic just out of our area who said they would help, so my point is what are the Dr and practice nurse doing ?

H

[Tony Pratt 1Participant @tonypratt1]

I suspect a lot of them aren't doing much at all

Tony

[Tony Pratt 1Participant @tonypratt1]

Double post

Edited By Tony Pratt 1 on 21/04/2020 20:51:24

[Martin KyteParticipant @martinkyte99762]

i expect they are doing what we are all suppost to be doing and reducing person to person contact as much as possible.

regards Martin

[Martin KyteParticipant @martinkyte99762]

UKRI the new grouping of all the UK research councils has a webpage with all the science of the outbreak explained for all those interested.

You can find it here

Corona Virus the Science Explained

regards Martin

[not done it yetParticipant @notdoneityet]

Posted by Harry Wilkes on 21/04/2020 18:24:00:

The down side to this situation we find our selves in my Uncle age 94 ex gunner spent his war time in the far east had a fall Saturday night he was taken to hospital and had sticks in the wound also a scan to make sure no brain bleed all went without any problems given the pressure on our hospitals. Yesterday my cousin (his Daughter) spent over 6.5 hours on the phone trying to get his stiches out, she phoned his Dr as instructed didn't want to know they suggested the practice nurse who didn't want to know bottom line she found a clinic just out of our area who said they would help, so my point is what are the Dr and practice nurse doing ?

H

Injured Saturday night and removing stitches after less three days? I would have thought more like a week, or more, for someone of that age. By the time they really need to come out, he will be past the incubation period? A pair of sharp scissors and a pair of tweezers is all that is needed? My wife, who is not a nurse, has removed stitches in the past.

[Michael GilliganParticipant @michaelgilligan61133]

Not worth starting a new thread for this … but it’s worth a look : **LINK**

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2020/04/coronavirus-zoom-fatigue-is-taxing-the-brain-here-is-why-that-happens/

The findings are unsurprising, but well-presented.

MichaelG.

[old martParticipant @oldmart]

I had the staples removed from my knee after 11 days following joint replacement.

[Neil WyattModerator @neilwyatt]

Posted by Michael Gilligan on 25/04/2020 09:51:56:

Not worth starting a new thread for this … but it’s worth a look : **LINK**

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2020/04/coronavirus-zoom-fatigue-is-taxing-the-brain-here-is-why-that-happens/

The findings are unsurprising, but well-presented.

MichaelG.

Our astro club has now had three 'virtual' meetings, the last on was a 'star party' and we were able to do things like share images and guiding graphs as well as chatting – 95% of astrophotography is waiting so it does work well.

Other than that, a client meeting that took four hours was exhausting. The first two were finding a conferencing system that would work with the council's network. It wouldn't accept our external skype and the official 'skype for business' wouldn't let us in. In the end the one software they could use was, ironically, Zoom.

Here even with my awful conenction I find Zoom, Messenger, Google Hangouts, Microsoft Teams all work, but Skype refuses to acknowledge my camera these days.

The more relaxed timetable for MEW and the diminution of other work, while not welcome, has given me time for other things. Aside from fixing a new hinge on the back gate, I'm writing a book on astrophotography projects, so I've been 'working' by making a 6" Newtonian scope – mostly 3D printed. I'm waiting for allthread and ground rod to arrive as I need to increase my Y-travel so I can print ~8" diameter parts.

I've also been able to tackle some challenging bass parts – amazing how picking one, really hard, piece and practicing it several times a day improves your playing.

I have discovered how to control my laptop using Teamviewer so I can sit in my 'office' at 2:00am controlling my scope indoors. Will be great in the winter!

The downside is the huge amount of data I'm generating…

Neil

[Ady1Participant @ady1]

Amazing coincidence just noticed by me today…

Yup, amazing coincidence

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The Wuhan Institute of Virology, which was founded in the 1950s, houses China's first Biosafety Level 4 laboratory.

Such labs handle the most dangerous pathogens for which there are few available vaccines or treatments, and one of the areas the Wuhan facility studies is coronaviruses from bats.

**LINK**

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[old martParticipant @oldmart]

You would think that a laboratory doing dangerous work like this would be out in the country, well away from the temptation of popping out to the noodle parlour for lunch.

[Frances IoMParticipant @francesiom58905]

That ‘coincidence’ has been pointed out for some time – I never thought Pangolins or Bats (from which bits of Covid19 were supposedly combined probably by nature in some cave well away from Wuhan) were actually on sale at the ‘wet’ market.

Accidents from such labs even in UK (eg last F+M outbreak was from centre near Guildford from a leaking drain + virus carried away on contractor’s tyres, elsewhere from a high security lab Smallpox briefly escaped))

Edited By Frances IoM on 01/05/2020 21:04:59

Edited By Frances IoM on 01/05/2020 21:06:23

[Bill PhinnParticipant @billphinn90025]

Posted by Frances IoM on 01/05/2020 21:04:23:
That 'coincidence' has been pointed out for some time – I never thought Pangolins or Bats (from which bits of Covid19 were supposedly combined probably by nature in some cave well away from Wuhan) were actually on sale at the 'wet' market

Frances, the international trade in pangolins, for both food and medicinal purposes, is colossal:

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/05/opinion/coronavirus-china-pangolins.html

http://www.china.org.cn/environment/2015-11/03/content_36962678.html

China appears to be taking cases of pangolins and other wild animals being sold for meat quite seriously. The following article, which a desultory search threw up, dates from February 2020 and discusses a haul of prohibited meat, including a pangolin and snakes, that was seized at a restaurant in Fuzhou, a few hours' drive from Wuhan.

[HopperParticipant @hopper]

Well they are starting to wind back the more severe lockdown rules here in Oz as cases are rapidly declining and the pass-on rate is down below 1. We've only had 90-odd deaths out of a total 6700 cases, now down to about 1,000 current cases. So small potatoes compared with Europe and the US.

But I just realised that throughout the lockdown, take-away bottle shops have been allowed to open but clothes shops have not been. So beer, wine and spirits are rated as essential, but clothes are not. Gotta love 'Straya.

[SteviegtrParticipant @steviegtr]

Posted by Hopper on 02/05/2020 04:06:42:

Well they are starting to wind back the more severe lockdown rules here in Oz as cases are rapidly declining and the pass-on rate is down below 1. We've only had 90-odd deaths out of a total 6700 cases, now down to about 1,000 current cases. So small potatoes compared with Europe and the US.

But I just realised that throughout the lockdown, take-away bottle shops have been allowed to open but clothes shops have not been. So beer, wine and spirits are rated as essential, but clothes are not. Gotta love 'Straya.

You gotta get stocked up on the 4X . In a pair of shorts & old T shirt.

Steve.

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