Hardly saw anyone out today. Buses were totally empty, the local Co-op has instituted a five person only limit and there weren't even any queues outside. Still plenty of cars coming and going but without them it'd feel like a ghost town.
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While Wuhan lockdown would be like 10 weeks long when it ends, I donno if other countries can do it in that amount of time because China's lockdown is stricter than the ones in other countries with more severe measures. Plus if UK goes a bit easy in 3-6 weeks time then it's possible for it to creep back up again.
If a vaccine is discovered by June, wonder if that would help with the commotion even if trials, manufacturing and distribution means it won't actually be available until later this year/early next year?
If a vaccine is discovered by June, wonder if that would help with the commotion even if trials, manufacturing and distribution means it won't actually be available until later this year/early next year?
First day WFH today and there is some tasks I just cannot do here so I have to go into the office least once per week which I don't mind at all. Nice to have a break from being indoors all the time.
Definitely seeing a change in town. Hazard tape in and out of stores to mark safe distance for queues. Capacity limits in the local Boots. Watched some old people having a chat on the benches get told to go home by police. Town market will be open tomorrow though cause why not I guess
I'm talking about day on day percentage increase and the fact france increased rather substantially day on on day in that period. They're not matching exactly on deaths but taken as a whole they're in a similar ball park, for example between march 18 -19 there were 108 deaths.
Volunteer for the NHS! 250k people needed
https://www.goodsamapp.org/NHS
NHS requesting 250,000 volunteers to help out. Basically if you have a car and free time you'd be of use.
NHS requesting 250,000 volunteers to help out. Basically if you have a car and free time you'd be of use.
I got a call yesterday evening saying my laptop was ready to pick up from repair and that I should go in and get it today.
Then the government closed all electronics stores.
I'm a teacher and thus a key worker so kind-of could do with my laptop; luckily we were already on holiday (weird term dates) but I'm not really sure what my options are with this. I have enough other tech that I will be able to still work, but I don't much fancy teaching from the couch at my TV, or swearing at my iPad for not being able to do anything I need it to. I've been in touch with the repair shop (an Apple premium reseller) who said they were "consulting with company directors" - I'm hopeful that something can be arranged but somewhat doubtful.
I know this is ridiculously minor in the grand scheme of a pandemic, but having worked so hard to properly social distance in the prior days and getting very frustrated with people not doing so, I am annoyed that the behaviour of the great British public over the weekend in particular has shafted me somewhat. I'd rather not have to wait three weeks to pick it up - IF the government even relaxes restrictions then, which I think is very unlikely.
Bugger it!
Then the government closed all electronics stores.
I'm a teacher and thus a key worker so kind-of could do with my laptop; luckily we were already on holiday (weird term dates) but I'm not really sure what my options are with this. I have enough other tech that I will be able to still work, but I don't much fancy teaching from the couch at my TV, or swearing at my iPad for not being able to do anything I need it to. I've been in touch with the repair shop (an Apple premium reseller) who said they were "consulting with company directors" - I'm hopeful that something can be arranged but somewhat doubtful.
I know this is ridiculously minor in the grand scheme of a pandemic, but having worked so hard to properly social distance in the prior days and getting very frustrated with people not doing so, I am annoyed that the behaviour of the great British public over the weekend in particular has shafted me somewhat. I'd rather not have to wait three weeks to pick it up - IF the government even relaxes restrictions then, which I think is very unlikely.
Bugger it!
Individual days are too noisy to consider. Like, you can know that a certain number of people will die over a certain period of days, but it's basically random which exact day people die. It's only worthwhile looking at the overall trend over several days - that shows the true picture.
Ive registered for the transport stuff, should have time to spare after all!
Well, I'm thinking a smallish rural town like this may be able to make this work seeing today. Right now its empty enough for the police to easily spot anything that may raise an eyebrow. That market though, I wouldnt be surprised to see the police break it up tomorrow. If they don't, I think were going to see the attitude towards the lockdown fall apart by the weekend.
Lots of people in Richmond park, but everyone seemed to be respecting social distance, no big groups of people either.
They're not very noisy in the UK's case which is why I said the next few days are key. France is noisy yes but I'm not predicting france I'm predicting uK's trend based on the data we have on France italy and China.
Thought this might be a good video to send out to any of your friends or family who aren't taking this seriously:
Same with Greenwich. Closing the roads and car park seemed to stop the crowds and family day outs.
I had to stop work today because I'm freaking out about my friend. They are testing his husband and putting him in quarantine too. The sad thing is they are keeping them separated - so if he dies, his husband won't even be there with him. This is just heart wrenching.
It really pisses me off even further to think of the people strutting around not taking this seriously when now my friend is going to die.
The other scary thing is that his husband works in the same office as my wife-but I'm fairly certain that they don't work in close proximity.
It really pisses me off even further to think of the people strutting around not taking this seriously when now my friend is going to die.
The other scary thing is that his husband works in the same office as my wife-but I'm fairly certain that they don't work in close proximity.
First I've heard of it. What's the invalid part? People don't think she has/had the virus?
Seems the Covid Test Center the government is building in one of our car parks is going to be up and running by the end of the week so that's good.
Sorry to hear about your friend. Is there any reason in particular that you think your friend is going to die?
This is amazing.
But surely they are doing CRB checks on the volunteers? I would hope? These are vulnerable people and volunteers will be transporting them and taking them to their homes etc.
The doctor told his husband that his chances don't look good. He's been hospitalized since Friday and his breathing degraded to a point when're he was placed on a ventilator yesterday.
I mean this in a positive and not condescending way though it may not seem that way but, you dont know that. There's always hope and at least they're more likely to have the capacity to look after him now than they would in say a week or two.
From what I saw earlier in the week people were questioning if she was a virus patient and instead had another health issue which has hurt her lungs.
I thought they closed it? Is it only for cars?
It's better than nothing, but also, not enough?
Shit, that's horrible. My heart goes to you and him. Hopefully he'll recover (that's what ventilators are for, in the end!)
We're the same. I work maintenance in a Next warehouse and they've classified themselves as key work.
Our local Councillor and our MP are currently kicking off about it on social media.
They did...
Unbelievable: our officers break up 20-strong BBQ defying lockdown orders | News | West Midlands Police
Despite the government’s clear social distancing instruction last night our officers today found a group of 20 people ignoring the lockdown and tucking into a BBQ. Neighbourhood officers were on patrol in Foleshill Road, Coventry, just after 2pm when they smelt food cooking and smoke rising...
www.west-midlands.police.uk
Daily death figures are noisy by their nature. It's basically random what particular day somebody dies, so you can't use individual death figures for a particular day to discern a trend.
The only way to say if we've turned a corner is if our trend line goes parallel to the 'increase every 3 days' trend line for a sustained period (like, a week or so).
Edit:
Just saw gerg update his post (I think it wasn't there before?) and actually, from the daily figures it seems like we are on increasing every 3 days. That didn't seem super clear on the graph. Hopefully the trend continues in that direction! (also: how awful is it that we're only hoping it only doubles every 3 days?).
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She has had the virus.
She did another video that was on a few newspaper sites last night saying she was going home.
They did...
Unbelievable: our officers break up 20-strong BBQ defying lockdown orders | News | West Midlands Police
Despite the government’s clear social distancing instruction last night our officers today found a group of 20 people ignoring the lockdown and tucking into a BBQ. Neighbourhood officers were on patrol in Foleshill Road, Coventry, just after 2pm when they smelt food cooking and smoke rising...
Good stuff!
Just realised that we haven't seen Boris at all today...
That NHS transpoter is a recipe for disater, drugs out in the open, what could go wrong
Looks like they are - you have to have a certificate from the last 12 months. Oddly, as a teacher I don't at the moment because you only need to have a new one when you start a new job, and I've been at the school for just over a year.
They're really not all that noisy I mean look at those graphs, you rarely get trends that smooth without running through multiple filters and that's raw data. It's honestly pretty weird how smooth many of those graphs are considering how many variables are involved across each of the countries on a given day. The deviation from a reasonable trend-line post day 20 on many of those graphs is surprisingly minor.
'I can't emphasise how sick this can make you'
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-wales-52015614?ns_mchannel=social&ns_source=twitter&ns_campaign=bbc_live&ns_linkname=5e7a261930e3eb065b48e3ec&'I can't emphasise how sick this can make you'&2020-03-24T15:31:01.715Z&ns_fee=0&pinned_post_locator=urn:asset:36bf9d60-1de2-455d-93a3-73809f8d6b0f&pinned_post_asset_id=5e7a261930e3eb065b48e3ec&pinned_post_type=share
"An intensive care consultant has told how he was laid low by coronavirus - after catching it from a hospital colleague.
Dr David Hepburn, from the Royal Gwent Hospital in Newport, described being wiped out by the killer virus and sleeping for 18 hours a day - despite being "fit and well".
He told how many of the patients that end up in intensive care are not old and vulnerable, but are young and active.
The intensive care consultant made a heartfelt appeal to people to obey the lockdown rules and prevent the virus spreading further."
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-wales-52015614?ns_mchannel=social&ns_source=twitter&ns_campaign=bbc_live&ns_linkname=5e7a261930e3eb065b48e3ec&'I can't emphasise how sick this can make you'&2020-03-24T15:31:01.715Z&ns_fee=0&pinned_post_locator=urn:asset:36bf9d60-1de2-455d-93a3-73809f8d6b0f&pinned_post_asset_id=5e7a261930e3eb065b48e3ec&pinned_post_type=share
"An intensive care consultant has told how he was laid low by coronavirus - after catching it from a hospital colleague.
Dr David Hepburn, from the Royal Gwent Hospital in Newport, described being wiped out by the killer virus and sleeping for 18 hours a day - despite being "fit and well".
He told how many of the patients that end up in intensive care are not old and vulnerable, but are young and active.
The intensive care consultant made a heartfelt appeal to people to obey the lockdown rules and prevent the virus spreading further."
The underlying event is noisy though - death is basically random. Just because a random event follows a clear path for a few entries doesn't stop the underlying event from being random. Over a span of a few measurements, you can have what appears to be a trend develop for it all of a sudden to just regress back to the mean.
If I could get an antibody test (I suspect I already have it) then I'd do this in a heartbeat once I'm better.
Edit - Stories like the one above are why I didn't return to the Royal Gwent for my additional tests. Fuck setting foot back in that place until this is over.
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It still allows you to predict with reasonable accuracy for those entries. Considering what your dealing with here that's pretty good. It's actionable data, it's not enough to indicate on the bigger picture whether those actions are correct but it's a lot better than a total shot in the dark.
Coronavirus: Thieves steal Essex school's food meant for key workers' children
The school's four big freezers were taken, as well as most of the dry and chilled produce from the kitchen.
news.sky.com
Apologies if reported already.
Absolute scumbags. What more can you say.Coronavirus: Thieves steal Essex school's food meant for key workers' children
The school's four big freezers were taken, as well as most of the dry and chilled produce from the kitchen.
Apologies if reported already.
Is this stupid?
My brother's girlfriend works in the NHS away from him at the moment in a different city so they haven't seen each other in 6 months. She has her holidays, currently been off a week already and she is coming over to stay with him at my mum and dads house who are late sixties, early seventies. Now he says he had a cold, cough or whatever the last few weeks so assumes my mum and dad if they were going to get coronavirus would have already since he lives with them assuming that's what he has but they've shown no symptoms except my dad has a cough which we are keeping an eye on daily. Now both of them are basically, got to see each other mode, whatever and don't worry about it but I think it's too risky and selfish. I would be seriously pissed if she did have it and gave it to them but my mum seems to be accepting well, they want to see each other. Also the fact she may bring it back to the NHS patients, my other brothers wife thinks it's both stupid for them, parents and the NHS to visit each other too.
What do you think?
My brother's girlfriend works in the NHS away from him at the moment in a different city so they haven't seen each other in 6 months. She has her holidays, currently been off a week already and she is coming over to stay with him at my mum and dads house who are late sixties, early seventies. Now he says he had a cold, cough or whatever the last few weeks so assumes my mum and dad if they were going to get coronavirus would have already since he lives with them assuming that's what he has but they've shown no symptoms except my dad has a cough which we are keeping an eye on daily. Now both of them are basically, got to see each other mode, whatever and don't worry about it but I think it's too risky and selfish. I would be seriously pissed if she did have it and gave it to them but my mum seems to be accepting well, they want to see each other. Also the fact she may bring it back to the NHS patients, my other brothers wife thinks it's both stupid for them, parents and the NHS to visit each other too.
What do you think?
Well the self storage industry continues as normal today, thought we might actually have some good news about closing and limiting the access but outside of don't let people into the office we still have to come to work and carry on, I know other companies don't even have the don't enter the reception policy too. We've actually been busier than ever today as well, people being idiots and just carrying on like nothing has happened; trying to hand us parcels for courier pickups, tons of people going to their units picking up completely unimportant things, even had someone trying to get into the office who was coughing and spluttering away at the door.
It would be easy enough to change how we operate to just allow essential customers access remotely but they'll argue their way out of that every step of the way. Frustrating to say the least.
It would be easy enough to change how we operate to just allow essential customers access remotely but they'll argue their way out of that every step of the way. Frustrating to say the least.
Might be worth dropping a tweet to this arsehole, he's a scumbag but if he's calling out companies who are refusing to close then it might embarrass your bosses enough to close:
It's absolutely goes against government guidelines so they shouldn't be seeing each other. If they haven't seen each other in 6 months, they can handle another 3 weeks