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

That's the question though, are there that many of them? It seems like any deaths related to lung issues would most likely get investigated or counted one way or the other.

You can only land small stuff at London City Airport

Or as that proves you can land bigger stuff too as long as it's STOL capable ;)

Yes, and if the quality of the attribution is of the standard indicated in the G article above, we are going to be stuck indoors for a very, very long time.

Also, updating aerial photography or something else?

It's Ravenair owned, they do aerial surveys. Why they do the surveys they do over the areas they do though  🤷🏼‍♂️

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/27/advice-on-protective-gear-for-nhs-staff-was-rejected-owing-to-cost

Government rejected advice to stockpile PPE for pandemic readiness in 2017 due to cost.

Wonder if you could get a Globemaster III in there?

Is that a challenge?

Chris Whitty is self-isolating now with symptoms

https://twitter.com/CMO_England/status/1243571992911138817

fuck me. a friend met him today for a briefing.

https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/health/2020/03/government-documents-show-no-planning-ventilators-event-pandemic

More here. Makes for grim reading.

Looking it up, it should be ok - needs just over 1,000m with a full payload, and City has a 1,500m runway.

Good for bringing things in. Might have issues taking much stuff out.

Wow, this is insane.

No-one else thinking chemtrails?

One of my work team lost a relative in the US yesterday, put a grim turn in our morning video meeting.

919 in Italy in a day.. good grief.

969 :(

We are only a week or two away....

So today I learned about the Airbus Beluga (after spotting one heading N on that geeky flight path page).

Beef between the civil service and charities right now:

Not being consulted then having a surprise 450k volunteers to deal with.

Promising 80% pay only to workers who don’t work really leaves established disaster planning in tatters.

Boris is now the 21st Century version of Thyroid Mary.

Corno Boris.

and those working....double workload, no free money.

I went for a ride, back to my old hospital, because there's a 50:50 chance I get sent there next week, and I wanted to remind myself how far it was.

Few thoughts:

1. Where was everybody going in their cars? I mean it was pretty similar traffic to when I used to ride there and back.
   
2. How did I used to do it fasted, and then home again after a full shift. I think it had something to do with the shift to being over 30.
   
3. So. Many. Ambulances. I've grown used to hearing their sounds now, as we live basically between a major hospital (ironically I've yet to work there) and a major ambulance depot, but the past few days with the reduction of general traffic- it just seems to be constant.
   

Whereabouts is this? Here in south London the traffic is vastly reduced. I rode up to the W&C hospital yesterday afternoon to collect my wife’s meds, and the Fulham Road was deserted at 4pm

Central(ish) to Harlow.

and those working....double workload, no free money.

Now I am left unable to work and be useful until this is untangled. How much of the issue is political and how much financial and practical I don’t really know.

Very frustrating though.