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

Oil price has gone negative and Wiggle has no cheap rim brake pads.

Meh. My car does 17mpg and I only use Swissstop pads. Suits me.

Golf club thread ahoy.

Two separate threads some bar groups I'm on,

Kill me now

Seems like madness to me and people need to relax instead of posting shite on things.

Did you just tell yourself off?

Or spreading shite.

P.S. If standard black Shimano pads will do you I have at least one set of new pads you're welcome to.

^ Bost Post ;)

Hey, if it ain't got Swissstop I'm fucking walking...

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2020/apr/20/studies-suggest-very-few-have-had-covid-19-without-symptoms

Herd immunity hopes hit by WHO report suggesting only 2%-3% infected without realising it

Just enough asymptotic carriers to spread the virus, not anything like enough for herd immunity without crippling healthcare. Feels like lockdown until we have a vaccine to me.

A report by Blair’s think tank, referenced by the guardian about possible exit strategies.

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• A Sustainable Exit Strategy Managing Uncertainty Minimising Harm.pdf

With you on this. If you can't afford SwissStop, you're braking too much.

Daughter appears to have it. She has had a dry cough for eight days. No temperature. Taste and smell intact. Tired, bit so would you be if coughing like she does. Ditto sore throat. No coughing at night.
Seems almost too few symptoms, but not sure what else it could be

double post

As a contrast to that article above.

Sweden said tonight that stockholm had 11% infected or who had been infected as of last week and believed it was around 25% today.

Not easy to get good info these days. At least not to varify it.

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No. Unless you like red MAGA hats.

Govt. "Knowingly" using Covid tests that are less effective than commercial equivalents and missing 25% of positive cases:

https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/opendemocracyuk/exclusive-nhs-using-flawed-covid-19-test-missing-25-of-positives/

Oh do buzz off. Unsurprisingly that is not a reasonable one-line summary of that (pre-print) paper.

Department of Health Twitter account going into overdrive combatting it's own bot activities is pretty dystopian:

https://mobile.twitter.com/sturdyAlex/status/1252364478357766145

Impersonation of actual NHS staff without their knowledge for sockpuppet accounts being just one of their choice social media tactics....

More Asian men have died. Kumar (if that was his name, it seems to have been taken by the journalist from a Facebook post by someone who knew him) I may have met, as I always used to get some food in the shop where he worked before starting the London Classic/Cobblemonster (it's just across the street from the Gipsy Hill Tavern). RIP.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/20/london-death-shines-light-on-covid-19-threat-to-local-shopworkers

Obviously, it's still not clear whether people of Asian and African extraction seem to be more susceptible to the virus than white Europeans; general state of health and the jobs that people tend to do could also be a major factor. I think the suspicion was first generated by the disproportionate deaths of Asian and some African health workers, including a dozen doctors.

I'm sure our newbie nutcases will be more than eager to explain to you will be more than happy to explain that this is a consequence of Covid19 having been genetically engineered by the WHO from a mutant strain of virus extracted from Bigfoot by the pilots of the black helicopters.

Back in the land of the sane, I'm assuming there are various factors other than the genetics of ethnicity which may be a factor in the apparent discrepancies in fatality figures. Multi-generational households, language comprehension, tendency to employment in customer service roles etc. As with many things at the moment, there are trends in the data, but distinguishing correlation from causation is difficult.

After all, the genetic differences relating to race and ethnicity are relatively minor. And if it's not genetic differences which cause the disparity in the fatality rates, that really only leaves lifestyle factors.

Sources for the war crimes allegation?

https://healthfeedback.org/claimreview/claim-by-nobel-laureate-luc-montagnier-that-the-novel-coronavirus-is-man-made-and-contains-genetic-material-from-hiv-is-inaccurate/

What do you think of this?

@Velocio can we not have conspiracy theories in this times?