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

Guiz.

Pls.

You are edging dangerously close to the guys with those funny looking metallic hats

Nazis?

cyclists?

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No reflectoporn. I am dissapoint.

Nah they’d be well in to 5G

Too much fucking perspective

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A load of testing capacity was only available due to clinical research stopping and academic staff being diverted to testing. Universities open up again and that testing capacity disappears again.

Good thread on where we currently are in terms of cases:
https://twitter.com/chrischirp/status/1307039298827571202

We’ve had a few all-university emails asking for volunteers of people coming to end of contracts etc, I imagine it’s gone to alumni as well, there must be loads of recent biology and health graduates in need of jobs.

Selfish idiot causes Covid spike

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-54205353

Are recent graduates/alumni cheaper/more reliable than automation?

In the short term they're probably easier to scale up than production at a testing machine manufacturer?

Useful little article on why 'hands, face, space' isn't a particularly good slogan:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/sep/19/scientists-criticise-uks-hands-face-space-campaign-to-control-covid-19-coronavirus

Did a drive thru test today. Took three days of trying to get one that wasn't on the Isle of Wight - place was pretty empty when we got there though.

As much as I want to complain about this government the testing my girl friend managed to get a local walk in test on Thursday evening and got the results back this morning as negative, great service. Think we were very lucky.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/sep/20/covid-scepticism-behind-high-bolton-infection-rate-says-local-mp?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

Just saw this... :(

People having a “last blast” before restrictions tighten

The Darwin Awards will have a huge pool of nominees this year.

You're still limited by the number of samples you can run on your PCR machine.
Unless they're doing Kary Mullis homage PCR and using multiple water baths rather than thermal cyclers.

With risk of a £10k fine, why bother getting a test, better not to know and carry on in ignorance....

Unless they're doing Kary Mullis homage PCR and using multiple water baths rather than thermal cyclers.

Was just about to say the same thing.

Tsk, "experts". Give me a #thinkforyourselfs hashtag, anyday.

With risk of a £10k fine, why bother getting a test, better not to know and carry on in ignorance....

Lewis Goodall off that Newsnight is making the same point on his Twits right now.

Sweden fucked it up for sure, could have protected old peoples homes way better and had alot less deaths.
Apart from Stockholm/Gothenburg/Malmo people do have (in general) a lot more space than most, housing and leisure wise which makes it a lot easier to social distance.
Was back home in August and as per usual not many people hug/kiss and (my opinion/experience only) family interaction is not as important as in other countries. It's just easier to keep distance to one and other.
Also Swedish people(me included) are well programmed to follow what authorities/government tell you to. Not necessarily a bad thing in these circumstances........really bad/easy for getting people to vote right wing though....

Compared to UK yes, pensioners are definitely more healthy in Sweden(my opinion only). Hard to compare though cause Sweden and UK are very different in most ways tbh, history, geography, politics.
The other Scandi countries did much better at the start than Sweden(Finland still doing really well) but are now feeling the same backlash as other countries. Dosent mean that much though. They are all different countries with different circumstances.
I personally think Sweden did the right thing for their circumstances. If you asked me about Swedens stance in May I would have said something very different.......

From yesterday's times:

Some people in NI were struggling to get a test online, got one in Glasgow (lol?) and had to ring.

With lower population density we are better off I'd guess..

So, knowing PCR lab kit is a likely bottleneck, was the UK government lax?

Or is it just hard to get kit and / or train people to use it?

You can't undo years of neglect in 6 months...