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Who is your first pick in the deputy leadership race? This poll is closed. |
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| R. Allin-Khan |
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| P. Flaps |
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jabby posted:Meanwhile epidemiologists are screaming that you need to get ahead of illnesses like this, because once you're in the exponential spread phase things will spiral out of control extremely fast. Every day the government delays social distancing measures sees thousands more people infected 'under the radar', and I can't for the life of me figure out why they aren't acting. e: In 1994 Stephen Milligan resigns from political life. Guavanaut fucked around with this message at 16:48 on Mar 15, 2020 |
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One of my colleagues (I don't know them) was out for testing last week and today we got notification it's positive. All I know is the person worked on the same floor as me  It's been 6 days since I was at the office so if I did catch it, I'm either completely asymptomatic or I'm about to get symptomatic. It's annoying that it's impossible to tell whether I've had it or not without a test. If I found out I've already had it and am now immune, I could go out and help people with their shopping and poo poo.
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Mar 15, 2020 16:48
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JeremoudCorbynejad posted:It's annoying that it's impossible to tell whether I've had it or not without a test. If I found out I've already had it and am now immune, I could go out and help people with their shopping and poo poo. This is it. The absolute most infuriating thing for me. At some point everyone who had mild or no symptoms is just going to have to work on the basis that it's either hit them or that they can probably take the hit, because either way there's only so long that self isolation can go on before people need to go places and interact and attempt to return to normality.
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namesake posted:See what mutual aid groups exist near you and they might be able to give you and your relatives the support they need over the coming weeks: And while you're bored at home why not consider reading Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution? Get some nice, healthy theory down your gullet. (Though I'd probably recommend The Conquest of Bread first. Read leftcoms, loving Marxism-Leninism)
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Doctor_Fruitbat posted:This is it. The absolute most infuriating thing for me. At some point everyone who had mild or no symptoms is just going to have to work on the basis that it's either hit them or that they can probably take the hit, because either way there's only so long that self isolation can go on before people need to go places and interact and attempt to return to normality. True, but at some point I think testing kits will be so ubiquitous they'll be able to literally mail them to everyone in the country, or have people go door-to-door for doorstep testing (then you get a little wristband to say if you're immune?)
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forkboy84 posted:And while you're bored at home why not consider reading Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution? Get some nice, healthy theory down your gullet. (Though I'd probably recommend The Conquest of Bread first. Read leftcoms, loving Marxism-Leninism) No you can't make me. Lenin was right. jabby posted:They talk a good game about wanting to 'flatten the curve', but I can't think of a single measure they've introduced to do so. Yeah the only explanation I can think of is that they're thinking of transmission as something that can just be cut off at a certain point rather than this huge unseen backlog constantly revealing itself after the fact and it's insane that anyone in a position of knowledge or power thinks that. Jose posted:another 14 deaths being reported But only a 20% growth in total cases, perhaps due to the new secondary care testing restrictions?
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JeremoudCorbynejad posted:True, but at some point I think testing kits will be so ubiquitous they'll be able to literally mail them to everyone in the country, or have people go door-to-door for doorstep testing (then you get a little wristband to say if you're immune?) I hate to say it, but: is there a private option for testing?
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Doctor_Fruitbat posted:I hate to say it, but: is there a private option for testing? https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/13/harley-street-clinic-offering-375-coronavirus-private-test
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Doctor_Fruitbat posted:This is it. The absolute most infuriating thing for me. At some point everyone who had mild or no symptoms is just going to have to work on the basis that it's either hit them or that they can probably take the hit, because either way there's only so long that self isolation can go on before people need to go places and interact and attempt to return to normality. It's irritating. No news yet on whether the ?case at my work got tested, and I really need to be there if I can. Since I've still got a wheezy cough and some shortness of breath though, I've had to call in that I may have a touch of the ol' corona. Without knowing for sure I feel like a fraud, even though I understand that you're hardly gonna run a PCR for everyone with a cough at this point.
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Barry Foster posted:Think I should stop going to the gym now? My gym is always full of students. Gross, dirty students. Simply build you own gym in the spacious back garden of the house you'll inherit from your boomer parents. (I'm currently in the three months of the year where I don't use the backyard gym because uninsulated metal and British winter don't mix. Guess I'm going to have to find some gloves and man up in glorious isolation) E: Be interesting to see what attitude my parents have in the weekly phone call this evening. I warned them a couple of weeks back and they blew it off. Panic might be setting in for my asthmatic mum :/ RockyB fucked around with this message at 17:17 on Mar 15, 2020 |
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The governments response is loving infuriating. I guess this is what happens you you elect a single issue government! Fucks sake.
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Guavanaut posted:We're going to leave the pandemic with a great deal. Get Covid done
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namesake posted:But only a 20% growth in total cases, perhaps due to the new secondary care testing restrictions? Probably
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Guavanaut posted:We're going to leave the pandemic with a great deal. ...of victims
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I have a question: do I understand correctly that the Taiwanese authorities fitted infrared thermometers at busy rail stations and as passengers made their way across the central part of the stations they were being monitored for temperatures and those with temperatures over 37.5 were stopped from entering the station? Is this being done anywhere in the UK?
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April fools day is going to be too easy this year, isn't it?
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bornbytheriver posted:Is this being done anywhere in the UK? lol no
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bornbytheriver posted:I have a question: do I understand correctly that the Taiwanese authorities fitted infrared thermometers at busy rail stations and as passengers made their way across the central part of the stations they were being monitored for temperatures and those with temperatures over 37.5 were stopped from entering the station? Is this being done anywhere in the UK? I've been to hospital twice in the last couple of weeks and nobody there was even asking any questions 
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bornbytheriver posted:Is this being done anywhere in the UK? Here's a picture of our pandemic response today: 
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sinky posted:Here's a picture of our pandemic response today: I'm the white bloke
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Society's sure gonna look different after this is over, huh I'm glad I've got a hefty stash of weed, this'd be a boring couple weeks otherwise
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Barry Foster posted:Society's sure gonna look different after this is over, huh less gammons i hope
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sinky posted:Here's a picture of our pandemic response today: Don't worry they'll be enforcing self isolation for over 70's "within weeks".
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Red Oktober posted:The governments response is loving infuriating. I guess this is what happens you you elect a single issue government! Fucks sake. There is no way they will have planned for a scenario where something of this scale comes along at the same time. Probably explains why we're seeing nothing by way of a response
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Barry Foster posted:Society's sure gonna look different after this is over, huh It really should. This is what should convince us that we need to build fairer, safer, more resilient societies. Literal trillions were conjured from nothing, not to prevent the human cost of this, but in an effort to stop the markets collapsing, and most of that went straight into billionaires' hoards. Whenever anyone says, ever again, that money doesn't go on trees, they should be reminded of that. Whenever we can't afford bursaries for nurses, or salaries for teachers or firefighters, or benefits for disabled people, or student grants, or parental leave, or sick leave, or healthcare free at point of use, or to feed, house and clothe our elderly once they have retired, or for that matter, to feed, house, and clothe literally everyone ever, the person saying that should be reminded that we as a global society threw invented literal trillions and threw them down the drain, to no avail, because it looked like some already-rich parasites might become more rich at a slightly slower pace. Twice. This should be thing thing that makes us realise that capitalism doesn't work. I'm dubious though.
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Barry Foster posted:Hello thread, happy to join you here in The End Times yes, if your partner is at risk, absolutely stop going to the gym immediately. also talking about the testing thing with other people, what also makes it extra stupid is that you're at higher risk if you catch covid after another infection. so me and my partner have been fluey for 10+ days now, but don't know if we're basically overcoming a mild case of covid and could then go out once it clears up or if we're at higher risk
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I'll say this, those mass thermal scanners have taken huge leaps since 2003 when SARS first prompted them Back then they were industrial infrared scanners rigged up in a desperate hurry  today they they pick up and track individual people 
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thespaceinvader posted:I'm dubious though. I'm rather more than dubious. Communist Thoughts posted:yes, if your partner is at risk, absolutely stop going to the gym immediately Yeah, message received. I feel a bit stupid because I've maybe leaned too far into 'don't pay attention to what's going on' mode since December and now that I've returned briefly to the UKMT and its horrors I can see that blithely getting on with your life in the midst of a generation-defining pandemic was actually dumb as heck. We've just discovered that her immunosuppressant drug actually might help with The Bug, so that's good https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)30304-4/fulltext
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the strategy as far as it goes seems to be do nothing, let people associate and catch it, tell them to stay at home when they start developing any symptoms, and come out as soon as you're over it so self-isolation, but not to avoid getting it - to get over the disease and develop immunity. They're discouraging people in that situation from even calling 111, so it sounds like they want to keep sick people away from hospitals as much as possible. "Take it on the chin" I guess
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https://twitter.com/miqdaad/status/1239227581632860160?s=21 Neat news article to have on the anniversary of Christchurch.
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baka kaba posted:Probably not the right time for this, but you sure you just don't need your aerial sorting out or replaced? We have a communal aerial in our flats for freeview which is knackered (apparently they have spent several £00 trying to get it fixed to no avail), but also there's a hill between us and the freeview transmitter and we can literally only get a handful of channels on freeview (it was the same in my last flat down the road a bit). Hence why I have freesat - I had it put in my last flat, and in this flat I poached a spare node on someone else's sky sat and got a skyHD box. (Just a reminder - freeview and freesat are different services). (When we have our AGM in April, I'm going to suggest that we replace the 4-node things on each of the 3 satellite dishes on the roof with 8-node ones (total cost about £75 + labour) and then anyone who moans about the freeview - lots of them - can pay as I did and as my neighbour did - to get connected to one of the spare nodes and use freesat from sky. But anyway, as I'm in London, I went to Currys/PC World and looked at things and bought a Roku thing as recommended elsewhere ITT (https://www.roku.com/en-gb/products/roku-express) so assuming it works ok, I'll be a very happy bunny and spending £30 instead of £150. I also spied a gadget for plugging up to 3 hdmi cables in to one socket (tv only has 1 hdmi socket) so I can hopefully (not home til tomorrow night so can't try yet) switch between the sky box and the roku without moving from my chair (not laziness but I have to sit in a particular chair because of my back and use my laptop on my lap so am usually covered in wires as my mother says which are a pain to untangle from).
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^^^ yeah catchup is way better if it's an option, live tv is extremely bad, and most news channels seem to be on youtube if you want thatsinky posted:Here's a picture of our pandemic response today: flahtab is bathalf backwards
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Long-tailed tits are the tits.   There's a load of robins as well but they don't hang around the feeder, they fly in, grab something and fly out. I'm shooting manual focus so this makes it near impossible to catch them.
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thespaceinvader posted:This should be thing thing that makes us realise that capitalism doesn't work. look if the gammons want to go back to the blitz so bad they can't complain if we elect Clement Atlee afterward
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Apparently the lap dancing clubs along the Axis of Filth* are all shutting down for lack of customers, when horniness levels are this low in the City you know something's up. * The unofficial (as in I made it up and am determined to make it stick) term for the area from Kingsland Road down to St. Katherine's Docks at the eastern edge of the City of London which once had a higher concentration of sex shops, dodgy cinemas, saunas, massage places and strip joints than Soho - almost all of them long since gentrified out of existence, but there's a half-dozen "gentlemen's venues" left around there.
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baka kaba posted:flahtab is bathalf backwards halfbat: population halved by the bats
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