Chat about Novel Coronavirus - 2019-nCoV - COVID-19

I was on my mobile. I need to get something for that.
Even with Ublock on chrome it's still shit.

I've just got back from our local Sainsbury's. Lots of expected empty/nearly empty shelves (loo roll, pasta, rice, flour) but also biscuits and what I understand are grouped as feminine hygiene products.

Still no toilet roll in my Waitrose. This could get very bad very quickly.

Just been to Chiswick Sainsbury's. Toilet roll stocks look pretty stable - there's pallets of them by the tills. However, the prosecco situation is dire

Any of the apps from disconnect.me

Would you wipe toast on your Macbook?

The article says they wiped the Chromebook piece on all the laptops in the class but no number given.

The toast experiment in general is excellent. Should be made into a public health information campaign.

No problem, you were right to assume I've never dealt with a fecal eruption anyway.

In other news, my other half had just been told his work will be working from home tomorrow because a colleague is a confirmed contact of someone who has tested positive.

They have been told they can come in tomorrow morning to pick up their laptops though.

This is in direct contrast to Public Health England guidance 🤦‍♂️

(See no. 12 https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/guidance-to-employers-and-businesses-about-covid-19/guidance-for-employers-and-businesses-on-covid-19#when-individuals-in-the-workplace-have-had-contact-with-a-confirmed-case-of-covid-19)

Sainos at Bell Green are sold out of toothpaste. WTAF?

Just had a poo in a park. Plenty of leaves.

Turnpike lane tesco express and poundland loo paper and soap stocks fine.

More than 15 packets of bell pepper stirfry packets in the reduced section!

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They're cleaning the trains? I reckon disturbing some parts of the tube for cleaning would probably release more pathogens than it would get rid of

Kill the viruses, dislodge the 40 year old layers of carcinogenic iron dust.

Disturb the centurion ghosts.

Most of that is swirling around in the tunnels and stations already....

Not really.

Turn on taps, wash hands and taps, dry hands with paper towel, use paper towel to turn off taps, put paper towel in bin. If there's a door between you and the outside world use a paper towel to open/close the doors and bin it ASAP.

It's how I was taught to wash my hands when I worked in catering many many years ago.

Most public loos seem to have air driers rather than paper towels so that method requires carrying your own supply

The trigger for the quarantines in Hubei and Northern Italy appears to essentially have been the same - i.e. the local health care system being heavily stressed by rapid increase in severe cases.

The fundamental government challenge with covid 19 is surely to figure out how to rapidly increase ICU capacity. I hope this is the focus of government planning in this country.

I'm curious to know what the options are. Is it feasible to start designating certain hospitals only for treatment of covid?

I hope this is the focus of government planning in this country

I rather suspect that their focus will be to incrementally increase the level of interventions each day until the moment it drops out of the news cycle.

What about all the other stuff/surfaces you can't avoid touching out there ?
I'm thinking about the packed little bus I've just been on.

Most public loos seem to have air driers rather than paper towels so that method requires carrying your own supply

Yes, as a parent I'm rarely ever without a packet of tissues on me.

(Don't forget that this is an alternative to carrying hand sanitiser everywhere, so you're going to need to carry something everywhere and I prefer tissues to hand gel.)

Just people being shelfish

I assume the caustic soda used to turn bodies into soap is able to kill the virus?

Just learn not to touch your face, and wash your hands when you get the opportunity. Again I had this drummed into me during my time in catering (albeit for the opposite transmission direction.)

There's only so much you can do. In reality the most likely vectors of infection are going to be things you aren't in control of: Cafes/pubs/restaurants/etc. You drink out of and eat off/using things that have been handled by quite a few people (often with dubious hygiene practices) and that stuff is going straight into your mouth. No amount of hand gel you use on your own hands is going to change anything there.

This (and having a 10yo human petri dish of my own with a corresponding child's understanding and application of hygiene) is exactly why I'm not bothering with hand gel.