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

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I have very faded memories of visiting my maternal grandmother in her declining days at the old Central Middlesex Hospital. To an 8yo, the ward seemed to be never ending, but I'm guessing only 40 or 50 patients on either side.
4000 sounds like something from the Crimean War, so it is, at least well named.

Know how you feel as the British print industry body says its perfectly ok to swap print matter around but stay two meters apart .
When you go for a new job the question will obviously come up why do you want to leave and work for us.

Well you closed and feel your best resource are your staff .
I consider that a added value unfortunately my last employee didnt.

what has gone on in Italy?

Got a paper from the Lancet to read on that later.

I’ve sent a couple of you a pm to explain my situation as I don’t want to splash it around a public forum.
Obviously the vagueness of bj speech was intentional and open to interpretation. As I fall under the category of manual worker(skilled trade tho), we can still go to work technically. Can go to work is very different to should go to work tho. Actually people in my bracket are often very at risk and we come in to contact with lots and lots and lots of people each day.

Never thought I’d agree with Boris but staying home really is the right thing to do for people like me whatever the current legal ruling.

More to life than money.

Local mp to company is Boris fucking Johnson. Need I say more.

Well ours was frank field so double trumps.

:'(

What species is it?
Aside from "plant"

Excel centre is absolutely enormous, and also has excellent delivery/loading facilities, as well multiple entrance points, which may come in handy for minimising viral spread.

Remember being extremely impressed with how it was set up during London 2012 (was a volunteer at the time)

Agreed, only Italy and UK setting up temporary hospitals so far.

This whole thing is a total paradigm shift, have seen multiple news coverage sources refer to advanced and useful nations' healthcare systems (whereas in reality now all systems are woefully inadequate)

Good for you for taking a stand. I don't envy your situation.

They are happily building away near our office...

Fair play, I hope you'll be ok, there's more to life than money but bills don't stop.

Agreed, only Italy and UK setting up temporary hospitals so far.

Luxembourg has converted a conference centre too.

A music venue too..

Brexit or death?

Death, en, no I mean Brexit! Ahahah!!!

Unlike Eddie Izard's "cake or death" sketch death it is...

Might be first to be done, but Sweden got the army building a field hospital I Stockholm.

Pictures of these scare me though

They've done one in Madrid I saw on the news. When I saw that I did wonder whether Excel would end up getting used.

Luxembourg too. In the carpark of the biggest hospital here a 200-bed temporary ward going up:

France has built a field hospital but a lot smaller than Madrid or London:
https://www.france24.com/en/20200324-french-military-field-hospital-starts-unprecedented-peacetime-operations-to-combat-coronavirus

and Washington State are building one:
https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/washington/articles/2020-03-19/workers-building-field-hospital-as-coronavirus-spreads

Think some countries are also deploying naval hospital ships, think one is being sent to LA

I know people get freaked out about the military being involved but generally, who has the experience of building temporary hospitals quickly other than them?

Given that 10% of the cases in Spain are medical staff, China's robot hospital might have its place for some roles:
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/18/how-china-is-using-robots-and-telemedicine-to-combat-the-coronavirus.html

this is pretty amazing...

https://www.isinnova.it/easy-covid19-eng/

bunch of people modify Decalthlon snorkelling mask to work with ventilators

The £ has gone through the floor against the Euro...

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Thanks for this link.
Decathlon, for releasing the design details/specification and isinnova.it
deserve some kind of applied innovation award.

That's a sloppy typo.
1MM GBP = 917k EUR

This is not a good time to be sick with something else. Three weeks of a UTI. Now on a really heavy dose of antibiotics. Today my temperature was 39. Up 13 times in the night to piss. I haven’t had a proper night’s sleep for three weeks. Now worried that my weakened state will make me vulnerable.

Really low and pissed off.