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

Girlfriend is being furloughed. I was jealous of furloughees already but it's going to be worse with me having to clock on at 9 and her being free to do exercise and read books and do training for work and cook nice meals and so on every day

Just saw that Austria are about to start doing random covid19 tests to try to get a better picture of true prevalence in the community. Not sure if they mean antibody or full viral test.

Interesting approach. Sounds like it could be quite useful?

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Every Trust has a procurement team who manage ordering, supply delivery and storage of products in the hospital. Routine items are supplied via NHS Supply Chain from a national catalogue so if a hospital carries 2 weeks of stock on average they would have a weekly delivery of a weeks stock so that there was always a local buffer to prevent any chance of stocks running out.
Its all more complicated than that but the principle is that if hospitals have a buffer and NHSSC also has a buffer then there is a lot of resilience in the system if a supplier has production problems.

What this system can't handle is demand suddenly increasing by 10000% for something usually used very rarely where local and national supply chain stocks would be limited which is why pandemic stocks are held so there is resilience nationally. As mentioned upthread the pandemic stocks expected a flu virus so gowns weren't stockpiled.

So now the whole world is chasing supplies of things that simply aren't in stock or are weeks/months away from manufacturers being able to scale up for sustained demand.

I just heard that Google are going to start releasing anonymised location data to show how people are behaving with regards to lockdown.

I hadn't thought about that being something they'd do, though I suppose it's obvious that they would be able to. It's presumably going to be on the cards for govts. to get hold of non anonymised data for the next emergency situtation they declare.

Someone asked ages ago if smokers were a higher risk group, Government just published a bulletin based on a study in China that showed they are 14 times more likely to develop severe repository disease from Covid-19

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/smokers-at-greater-risk-of-severe-respiratory-disease-from-covid-19?

And if those reports of the USA gazumping shipments of PPE from the Far East are true, the chasing of supplies truly is at fever pitch.

There's also, I read the other day, been an spike in people reaching out to organizations which offer help quitting.

A few weeks in isolation could help a lot of people in that regard.

Judging by the number of unfit people out doing exercise, many have shit bricks and woken up to it's importance.

I wonder if that will subside once the influenza does.

Bo Jo to extend his isolation. https://news.sky.com/story/coronavirus-boris-johnson-to-continue-self-isolation-as-he-still-has-covid-19-symptom-11968006

On a podcast, (maybe New European, apologies if mis-remembered),
someone suggested the Pantomime PM was going into isolation
as he owed his publisher a book.
Following the divorce settlement to Marina Wheeler,
and the loss of his DTelegraph £275k/year chicken feed column,
he can't afford to pay back the advance.

He looked rough last night isolating in the open air, on his doorstep clapping covid everywhere.

Problem is then what happens if he would genuinely pick it up a few weeks later? I think he's just caught it and it is what it is.

Sounds like you are going to benefit from nice meals and a happy partner. Things could be worse!

I read yesterday on here that nhs trusts are having trouble placing orders directly in China. My partner speaks Chinese and would be happy to volunteer help with that. Is that something that would be useful?

I just heard that Google are going to start releasing anonymised location data to show how people are behaving with regards to lockdown.

https://www.gstatic.com/covid19/mobility/2020-03-29_GB_Mobility_Report_en.pdf

Yeah good point. My complaints are so minor in the grand scheme.

Works out quite well as I'm moving flat so there'll be lots to do.

Not meant to belittle your problems, but I found it helps enormously with keeping things running smoothly around the house, if only one person has to work full time. Good luck with the move!

It's presumably going to be on the cards for govts. to get hold of non anonymised data for the next emergency situtation they declare.

Inb4 "it's a Monday - better declare an emergency"

This is cool:

Full PDF: https://www.architectsjournal.co.uk/download?ac=3180222

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Poop just got closer . When a friends work colleague just died .

Social distanging does not apply if you work in teh govetnmetn

THIS RIGHT HERE is what I'm talking about. A Health Sec opening a new facility for 1000s battling for their lives and NOBODY behind him observing social distancing rules. Even if they're all tested health workers (they're not), the image is SO CASUAL and the message so confused. pic.twitter.com/rDh06Dns9S

— Alex Andreou (@sturdyAlex) April 3, 2020

I am all for builders, army, NHS, etc. breaking distancing as needed to get the job done, we need to be realistic. But people in suits?

Yikes. Right outside such a critical place.

If you've been worrying about exactly how far/for how long you should ride your bike solo this might help put it in perspective.

https://twitter.com/SuptAndyCox/status/1­245593927354208262

The driver was sent on his merry way? Unfuckingbelievable.

They actually had crosses marked out on the ground 2m apart for the ceremony itself, but it looks like this went totally out the window afterwards. Unbelievable.