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

Personally I'd tell them social distance or move out, your choice. But all my friends are being sensible and if any were being that cavalier I don't think it's very likely they'd still be my friends...

Seems like the kind of thing James Dyson should be all over. Or did he already ship out to Singapore?

Now, definitely.

I more meant that I'd thought about it a week or two ago. Not happening now.

Parents were supposed to be down there towards the end of March. They're lucky they delayed to April as they'd be stuck down there for the foreseeable.

Just posted on guardian!

A scramble by the UK to produce thousands of ventilators to fight the coronavirus outbreak was achieving results as top companies have already produced a prototype and it should be ready for use in hospitals by the end of next week, according to Britain’s health secretary.

“More than half a dozen companies have already made one in prototype, to check with us that we are happy with the quality ,” Matt Hancock told BBC TV.

He also said that negotiations were advancing to purchase new equipment in large numbers that would enable home testing.

“Frankly I don’t care where it comes from as long as we can get our hands on it,” he told the Today Programme on BBC Radio 4.

The tests had only recently been invented and approved by regulators in the past couple of days, he added.

experience following a mass-shooting

Yes the Detroit A&E doctor in the vijaho says it has been successfully tried after a school shooting. So grim.

I wonder if this is being done in current Covid-19 hotspots. Surely it´s just a staggeringly expensive pump? Have a volunteer sparky do one a-apart, slap a bigger motor in there what for ramping up the chooch factor, fit even more hoses and flow meters and regulator valves for a pug fugly but skookum life saver. Better than just vegtabating. Gotta piss with the cock you got eh?

Saw something just now from Hancock on the guardian live feed

I don’t believe a word Hancock says, he’s been caught blatantly lying twice already.

I just wish he wasn’t putting me in this position to be honest, it’s difficult when Manchester is still relatively normal compared to London, hopefully he grasps the seriousness soon.

ramping up the chooch factor right there dude!

blatantly lying twice

Linky?

He said that they were in talks with supermarkets about the the supermarkets said no.

He said he was in talks with industry about making ventilators and industry said no.

Airbus are doing ventilator stuff and some F1 engineering firms are too

I agree he's a cock, but those aren't links. I'd be particularly interested in the second claim as it seems like that would have been bigger news.

And couldn't 'get' a bomb just by being in close contact with someone who'd been bombed the week before.

Zing!

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/coronavirus-crisis-supermarkets-accuse-hancock-of-lying-about-food-supply-deal-whvnqmvv7

I will try and find the other article about ventilators.

Is she salaried? Was it organised by a uni or the school?

Thanks!

More ammo against him is always appreciated, but I'd like you to be wrong about the ventilator thing (and it seems risky to me that he'd go so far as continue to lie and actually claim they've made one!)

Salaried through a school.

Not made one, spoken to industry, he obviously intended to do but hadn’t when he claimed it.

They then tweeted business asking for help.

Cycling banned in France.

Depends what you mean by cycling. Even if you meant Lycra cycling, the answer is just maybe.

The new rules apply to all forms of leisure and sport activites, not just cycling. So that´s jogging, walking, canoeing, bird watching, strolling along a beach or whatever. The statement by the sport minister was vague: outdoorsyness still allowed within close proximity to place of residence provided some form of certificate is carried.

I´ve found no official source to back up (false) reports that cycling has been altogether banned in France or Spain, where it is still allowed as a mode of transport.

In Spain, all road users, not just cyclists, are being stopped and asked to prove their journeys are essential.

Belgium has taken a completely different approach in ENCOURAGING people to take outdoor exercise in all its forms provided they do it in family groups, singly or in pairs.

Anyone else feel like they’re about to go full zombie apocalypse panic stations? I’m suppressing it for now but the prognosis is so bleak I feel it’s just a case of when.

Where do his figures go wrong?

Low level background panic at all times, only thing that chills me out is exercise and a beer, will start meditating later today.

I hope people appreciate that the pandemic will actually end at some point and 99+% of us will still be around, unlike a zombie apocalypse.

That's still 77m people.

Let's hope none of them are your loved ones, eh?