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Sirius B ![]() ![]() Send message Joined: 26 Dec 00 Posts: 24452 Credit: 3,081,182 RAC: 7 ![]() |
IF COULD "If this allows us to return to greater normality, it would be a great step forward." Health Secretary Matt Hancock said: "This new pilot could help shift the dial in our favour by offering a viable alternative to self-isolation for people who are contacts of positive Covid-19 cases,...Another cock up or common sense? |
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IF Note carefully: ... A large study of the test-and-trace system, published last month, found low numbers of people had followed the self-isolation rules in full. Yep. I've encountered those. Especially the macho workers... They conveniently deliberately ignore COVID so as not to be inconvenienced... What checks are there that the 7-days of tests are not simply going into the bin? Meanwhile, Dido Harding will be rubbing her hands with glee for the costly deluge of extra tests going out the door. One solution could be to require that instead of quarantining, those people must turn up each morning with passport, before 12-noon, to be tested (and recorded) at one of the many COVID testing sites. A very important side effect of quarantining is that the specter of having to quarantine raises the significance of the risk of getting infected whilst traveling. What is more costly: Foreign holiday industry profits, or our home economy and burdening the NHS? Stay safe folks! Martin See new freedom: Mageia Linux Take a look for yourself: Linux Format The Future is what We all make IT (GPLv3) |
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... Here's hoping we don't blow it again! Note that the UK is still very much on a critical cusp: UK: The latest reproduction number (R) and growth rate of coronavirus (COVID-19) wrote: Latest R and growth rate for England Simply, that means there is a deadly reservoir of infection still hanging around in the population, ready to explode India-style or Trump-style at the first chance of any large gatherings of people... Such as: Nightclubbing, airports, and other indoor venues that involve a large throughput of people... We really do need more of the population to be vaccinated yet, especially those who are the most sociable: Teenagers! Stay safe folks! Martin See new freedom: Mageia Linux Take a look for yourself: Linux Format The Future is what We all make IT (GPLv3) |
Richard Haselgrove ![]() Send message Joined: 4 Jul 99 Posts: 14475 Credit: 200,643,578 RAC: 874 ![]() ![]() |
... large gatherings of people ...Not just throughput. It's the ones that hold big groups of people, indoors, in close proximity, for hours on end, that you need to worry about. |
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India is very much badly in the news with COVID. Also in the news is that the UK is sending a further 6 plane loads of help to send 1000 ventilators, 495 oxygen concentrators, in addition to 3 oxygen generation units (each the size of a container wagon), and other aid. Nicely generous though all that is, and expensive to get it all there so quickly, that expensive lot will only support perhaps up to 2000 COVID patients at a time. There is also the proviso that trained staff are needed to properly make use of all that equipment... Those numbers are painfully small compared to the deadly suffering sweeping across India. For those claiming that "herd immunity" is the way to go... Then they need to get themselves over there ASAP to help out with the ongoing desperate 24-hour funeral pyre operation. Stay safe folks! Martin See new freedom: Mageia Linux Take a look for yourself: Linux Format The Future is what We all make IT (GPLv3) |
W-K 666 ![]() Send message Joined: 18 May 99 Posts: 17492 Credit: 40,757,560 RAC: 67 ![]() ![]() |
Report of high number of menstrual health problems in women tear gassed in Portland, Oregen. https://bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12889-021-10859-w Original news story was, NYT - Hundreds Reported Abnormal Menstruation After Exposure to Tear Gas, Study Finds Dr. Torgrimson-Ojerio decided she would try to figure out whether these anecdotes were outliers or representative of a more common phenomenon. She surveyed around 2,200 adults who said they had been exposed to tear gas in Portland last summer. In a study published this week in the journal BMC Public Health, she reported that 899 of them — more than 54 percent of the respondents who potentially menstruate — said they had experienced abnormal menstrual cycles.... Suspicions about tear gas and menstruation first came up more than a decade ago, during the Arab Spring protests, Dr. Jordt noted. |
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... Here's hoping we don't blow it again! Healthy sense prevails over deadly greed and grandstanding: Hospitality bosses lose court battle over indoor opening wrote: The High Court ruled in favour of the government after a case was brought by Punch Taverns founder Hugh Osmond, and Sacha Lord, the night-time economy adviser for Greater Manchester. And personally, I'm keeping well clear of all Punch Taverns. Stay safe folks! Martin See new freedom: Mageia Linux Take a look for yourself: Linux Format The Future is what We all make IT (GPLv3) |
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After starvation and decline, now a year afterwards, only now do we have: Covid: ... cash to target new variants will future-proof UK - minister wrote: ... funding to fast-track new vaccines will help "future-proof" the UK against new coronavirus variants, the vaccines minister has said... Good to finally see some desperately needed funding. Very sad to see this is the continuing story of:
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https://www.cdc.gov/vaccinesafety/index.html https://wonder.cdc.gov/vaers.html https://vaers.hhs.gov/ WOW Yep ![]() May we All have a METAMORPHOSIS. REASON. GOoD JUDGEMENT and LOVE and ORDER!!!!! ![]() |
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https://www.cdc.gov/vaccinesafety/index.html Yes, Wow! Indeed!! That highlights the very thorough testing and the very cautious safety for the vaccines. As compared to zero, none, nill, zilch, any type of safety when you take your chances with COVID. The deadly numbers speak for themselves, and the debilitating lingering effects from COVID make for a very sad story. Hence why we now have over 50 million people vaccinated here in the UK. Hence why there are multiple millions of people being vaccinated in the USA. Just look to India for the very deadly consequences that can unfold without vaccination or without other protections fully in place. Stay safe folks! Martin See new freedom: Mageia Linux Take a look for yourself: Linux Format The Future is what We all make IT (GPLv3) |
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Didn't watch Tuck tonight eh? WOW Yep ![]() May we All have a METAMORPHOSIS. REASON. GOoD JUDGEMENT and LOVE and ORDER!!!!! ![]() |
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Sitting in the Pub section tonight listening to the dolts and out pops the microchip in the vax again. Seems this time "they" are going to install a second scanner at the airport to scan you for the chip so they know you had the vax and can be allowed to fly. Different dolts let out that today is Cinco de Mayo but the change is levels allowing more business opening happens tomorrow and it is so punitive on business owners to do that the day after a huge DUI day. (Never mind all other level changes had been Thursday) For those who haven't heard of Cinco de Mayo, sots call it Cinco de Drinko and get plastered on tequila and eat tacos; it commemorates the Mexican army defeating the French. |
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At the end of the last reporting period the world's total case tally had passed 155.8 million while deaths passed 3,255,300. :-( According to witnesses on the ground the Indian's tried a new cleaning approach to the 20 million case clubhouse, they smashed through the front doors at great speed and only came to a halt when they crashed into the bar, but from all reports the clouds of cobwebs and dust was spectacular. Even though they set a new daily case number of 412,618 they entered the 21 million case clubhouse a bit more sedately. The only change at the upper end of the death list was the Philippines removing the Netherlands from 28th place now lets get onto the case list. The Maldives are now up to 117th spot, Mongolia jumped up 4 spots to 111th while Cameroon moved up to 99th, Thailand leapt up to 98th as Uzbekistan moved up into 94th, Sri Lanka nudged Norway out of 88th and South Korea and Estonia passed Algeria to claim 84th and 85th places respectively. Bahrain slipped past Libya into 77th, Uruguay jumped up 3 spots to 72nd as Lithuania moved up to 64th, Costa Rica leapt up 4 spots to 61st while Nepal put in a mighty leap to move up 4 spot into 49th, Ecuador took 45th from Slovakia and Malaysia moved up to 42nd. Pakistan jumped over Portugal and Israel to land in 29th spot while Belgium just became the 27th member of the 1,000,000+ club beating Sweden to the spot (mainly because Sweden can't get their numbers in in a timely fashion) as the Philippines claimed 25th from Romania and Turkey blew Russia out of 5th place. Meanwhile down under N.S.W. authorities are in a mad effort to trace check a couple who popped up as local transmission cases out of nowhere and having no connections to travel, quarantine or health services. |
W-K 666 ![]() Send message Joined: 18 May 99 Posts: 17492 Credit: 40,757,560 RAC: 67 ![]() ![]() |
BBC - Alcohol deaths highest for 20 years in England and Wales Alcohol killed more people in 2020 in England and Wales than in any of the previous 20 years, official data shows. |
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One aspect to note: Income inequality 'drives global wildlife trade' wrote: ... The analysis shows wild animals are mostly moved [traded] from low-income countries to rich developed nations... Our big outbreaks of new diseases have all come from our 'farming'/trading abuse of wildlife, most recently including the present COVID pandemic. Stay safe folks! Martin See new freedom: Mageia Linux Take a look for yourself: Linux Format The Future is what We all make IT (GPLv3) |
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Our big outbreaks of new diseases have all come from our 'farming'/trading abuse of wildlife, most recently including the present COVID pandemic. When humans raise animals like we raise out inner cities ... |
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Well India set another new daily case record, this time of 414,433. :-O But they have now received just over 1,000 respirators and just over 40 oxygen concentrators sent from our stockpile here yesterday which may help out a bit. Brazil has also entered the recently cleaned out 15 million case clubhouse. :-( Sweden did miss out on being the 27th member of the 1 million case club due to their tardy reporting so officially they became the 28th member at the bar there. Meanwhile Palestine became the 57th country to pass 300,000 infections while Bosnia/Herzegovina became the 75th to pass 200,000 and Timor-Leste has demoted New Zealand down to 179th on the case list. |
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The UK is now at two-thirds and counting: Two-thirds of UK adults receive first dose of a COVID-19 vaccine wrote:
Stay safe foks! Martin See new freedom: Mageia Linux Take a look for yourself: Linux Format The Future is what We all make IT (GPLv3) |
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India didn't set a new daily case count today, but it's still another 400K+ one, though they have set themselves a new daily death record while busting through the 4K barrier with 4,194 being officially being reported. But you really can't those official numbers, India obituaries cast doubt over country’s COVID-19 statistics. Only 2 other countries have recorded higher death numbers, but Brazil came within 18 of losing their 2nd spot. :-O There's also a bit of a send off happening over at the 4,000,000+ case clubhouse for Turkey who is about to move on. On the case list Sweden finally took over 27th place from Belgium, but have they got it within themselves to catch up with Romania? Nepal is another country to watch, now up to 2 spots on the case list to 47th and now up to 66th on the death list, ‘Like a war zone’: Fears nation’s COVID crisis could be outpacing India, and most anything/anyone has to go through India to get there. Meanwhile down in Sydney they're still trying to find their missing link to the cause of a couple to become locally infected. |
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