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

To support high quality remote education during this period, the government expects to deliver over 50,000 laptops and tablets to schools across the country on Monday 4 January, and over 100,000 in total during the first week of term. Over 1 million devices will be provided in total.

It'll be interesting to see how these get deployed and on what timescale. The organisation I work for has around 4,000 16-18yr olds, and during the first lockdown our deployment of devices was an utter nightmare. We don't have the resources (both human and hardware) internally to bulk configure devices to our build spec, and none of our systems can be used until this is done. Also, it's the same IT department who are supposed support all the devices in the wild with their skeleton staff.

And IT staff in schools, from experience are poor at the best of times as the school system is more about profit than supplying decent IT. Academies are worse. Certain staff such heads need the lastest macbook and ipads but other staff have to use their personally purchased laptops.

Feels like the number of people taking the piss is out of control.

Am drunk, am quite annoyed at a friends comments that covid is guilded cage and we should live for today. My reply of in that case if anyone you come withing 2m contact with catches covid or any one they interact with and catch covid then no NHS treatment for you. Live for today, fuck everyone tomorrow.

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My 4yo daughter has a pretty nasty cough and very husky voice.
Going through the gov website it says she can’t get a test. Are there any other avenues?
Or is there a shortage of tests again?
We are in SE London for reference.

She can’t? Did the rules change again that if you have 1 of three symptom you have to get tested?

That’s what the site said. Going to try calling a walk in centre once open.

Got one for today through the call centre

Excellent stuff, it’s worrying as this could mean more potential cases than expected if turned away for having a cough.

Yes, along with all the asymptomatic carriers that only get caught because of contact tracing and routine testing, rather than suspecting covid.

At the current rate, we’ll have another 2 million people testing positive for covid in less than 1 month. That could be another 50000 deaths. By beginning of Feb 2021.

It’s a bit strange that only 1 in 70 are testing positive who take a test.
That might be because key workers have to be taking them perhaps?

Now maybe yes, but in the first few months where they were only testing people that really thought they had it and were getting 1 in 45 positives (I just had a cursory look at mid-May)

The park was as busy as it is in the summer, drivers doing loops of the park in the hopes of getting a parking spot. Cunts.

Why are people going to the park cunts? There's not much else you're legitimately allowed to do and people need to exercise for physical and mental health reasons. Quite possibly those drivers have no outdoor space of their own.

Also if you were less likely to have a cough/fever from colds/flu in mid May so if you had symptoms you had a greater chance of it being covid?

No school until the 18th. NOW the parents are concerned about the way the pandemic has been handled....

If anyone's wondering why Johnson was so keen to keep the schools open there's your answer.

Chances are online will happen until meatspace school can be a thing again.

Is meatspace school some sort of trendy co-working space for kids where they are trained to be butchers because there'll be no jobs in the service economy post-Brexit?

I've only just found out that tier 4 still permits communal religious worship.

I'm going to organise a New Year's Eve Bangface, but make it legit by having a vicar MC.

in the first few months where they were only testing people that really thought they had it

I don't think this is quite right. I really thought I had it, as did a lot of people I know, some of whom have subsequently tested positive for antibodies, but we couldn't get tested.

IIRC to get tested you had to be NHS or in hospital.

A bit concerned about what they will be trained to be butchering post Brexit.

I guess it should say "they were only testing people who they really thought had it". It still feels like a lot of negative tests for single positives.

lots of busses go to the park, 2 national rail stations and DLR walking distance, why drive?

"not everyone can walk/take public transport"
(but I can yet I will drive)

RULE BRITANNIA

https://youtu.be/5_JmXCNPs6Y

Devils advocate, is private transport not a better choice for social distancing?