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

Speaking of Boris; did anyone see him on the news during the clap-along last night?! There's definitely something wrong with him, he looked in a terrible state (and not just the fancy dress scruffiness he puts on).

Like the closing shot of a ‘Black Mirror’ episode Brooker didn’t write .....

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/boris-johnson-self-isolation-clap-for-nhs-a4405676.html

That's what day drinking does to you by 8pm

Would you mind posting some pics of what exactly you're making and what the process is? I'm kind of interested in seeing what exactly we're talking about :)

There's definitely something wrong with him

... I mean... he has Coronavirus. From what I've heard, feeling very very drained is relatively common even when the symptoms are pretty mild. And he certainly looked tired and as if he'd been horizontal mere minutes before he went to the door to clap.

Just spoke to one of my Korean students, she's been back in Korea 2 days and has already been tested and got a negative result back....

Heathrow shuts down a runway.
Applying the same accountancy technique as the Tory party used in the run up to the 2019 GE over 'new' nurses, this now means Heathrow doesn't need a 3rd runway.

This is a link to the 3d design that we are printing. It has photos of the finished product. I'm only printing the main headband part.

Once you have a batch ready to go, DPD will pick them up for free and take them to be assembled in Sheffield (i think).

I've only printed one so far, with four more on the way. Still dialling in the settings. Will post a timelapse video of them being printed later on.

https://www.prusaprinters.org/prints/25857-prusa-face-shield

Edit: This is the UK group doing the coordination https://www.prusaprinters.org/group/3dcrowd-uk-mb5KPRn

When I had it (if I had it) just the thought of getting out of bed for a leak was tough. Having to get in a suit and then stand alone on a doorstep on an empty street and clap would've been horrible.

Yeah exactly, I'm not surprised that he's looking genuinely dishevelled for once.

Nice, thanks!

Are you doing this off your own back or is this your business? It's epic either way.

I assume that it's still massively more expensive to print these as you're doing than it is to get them flown in from the usual suppliers in China(?). Would this ever become a method that someone like a hospital would use - having a room full of printers spitting out 'NICE approved' prints?

Would this ever become a method that someone like a hospital would use - having a room full of printers spitting out 'NICE approved' prints?

Not as standard practice, no - definitely not worth it vs just having even a small manufacturing plant that actually specialises in this.

And instead of having a room full of printers ready to print stuff in the case of a pandemic emergency such as this one, it'd be cheaper to have such a manufacturing plant in the UK, and to have the room full of actual PPE.

But as we don't have this currently, crowdsourcing stuff from people's and institutions' private 3D printer is obviously a good way to go, better than just not having it.

They sure did. Those pesky production errors.

https://twitter.com/donnan_s/status/1245767701777256448?s=21

Singapore just announcing new work and school closures so it can get back on top of the uptick in cases, is this our future, rolling restrictions playing whack-a -mole with the virus, not one I look forward to

I really think it must be. Unfortunately

It's, as far as I can tell, the plan in fact (barring an antibody passport).

Are you doing this off your own back or is this your business? It's epic either way.

I assume that it's still massively more expensive to print these as you're doing than it is to get them flown in from the usual suppliers in China(?). Would this ever become a method that someone like a hospital would use - having a room full of printers spitting out 'NICE approved' prints?

Its a crowd sourced initiative so its off my own back. Edit: It was a company that sparked it off originaly, Prusa in the Czech Republic came up with the design for use in their health system.

Its a really slow, unhygienic and expensive way of doing things. Its a total guess but I assume that the usual suppliers in China are in very high demand at the moment. Perhaps @dubtap has some insight into how trusts normally order PPE, its not something I have been involved with before.

Until this point Singapore has been held up as the example along with S Korea that test and trace works, so the fact they are moving back to social distancing makes it hard to see how we can move forwards without testing at a scale beyond the Goverments current level of ambition

I think they have dialed-up restrictions again in China as well.

Not seen him look like that since he was snapped in the airport on the way back from one of Sergei's parties!

We've had a call around our research group to collate all 3d printing resources we have together with a view to start printing for the nhs. Luckily enterprising students nicked/took home the printers when the university locked down so they're still usable.

He must have had time to make a fleet of his famous model buses - he should auction them off for the NHS.

The Prusa mask is an awesome design. Really easy to print. I'm currently printing four at once, stacked on top of one another!

GCSE and A-level plans:
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2020/apr/03/gcse-a-level-grades-coronavirus-crisis-teacher-assessment-ofqual