Off Topic SARS-CoV-2 Covid-19

Apparently many could be kept indoor for months...talk about cabin fever. On the subject of going mad,anyone else remember that film with Jack Nicholson called ‘The Shining’ with ‘Here’s Jonny’ putting a frigging great axe through the door on route to totally losing it?

 

Yep, great film, and I love Jacky boy, fantastic actor.

 

Not arf..him and De Niro both top actors.

 

Totally forgot about this song.

 

Been there, got the t-shirt.

 

Very sad.

 

****.

I completely understand that mental state as I've been very close to it, but in his position, the pressure must have felt even more immense.

 

Erm...

 

Interesting thesis.
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Yours truly,
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(It's heartwarming to be in the majority).

 

It's all about you, isn't it?

 

Can we save these personal battles for somewhere else please. Ta.

 

Fresh fears have been raised over The Queen’s health after one of her senior footman tested positive for coronavirus.

https://royalcentral.co.uk/uk/queen...ootman-tests-positive-for-coronavirus-139863/

 

Civil unrest mutating in China and Italy...

‘Im only showing minor symptoms’.. according to those more fortunate than most...

How awful ...


Allam’s OUT

 

Every day i am tested.
Especially on here by people with no sense of humour.....

 

According to the Daily Mail local residents in Wuhan claim that the death toll there was nearer 42,000, not 3,200 as the Chinese authorities stated. I certainly would question the 3200 figure and feel it would probably a great deal higher than being officially reported, whether it is 42,000, of course, we don't know, but it's probably closer to the truth than the official line.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...tml?ito=push-notification&ci=11791&si=2141942

 

It's not rocket science.


Australian Astrophysicist Dr Daniel Reardon ended up in hospital after getting magnets stuck in his nostrils while building a necklace that warns you when you touch your face.


The 27 year-old astrophysicist, who studies pulsars and gravitational waves, said he was trying to liven up the boredom of self-isolation with the four powerful neodymium magnets.

“I have some electronic equipment but really no experience or expertise in building circuits or things,” he told Guardian Australia.

“I had a part that detects magnetic fields. I thought that if I built a circuit that could detect the magnetic field, and we wore magnets on our wrists, then it could set off an alarm if you brought it too close to your face. A bit of boredom in isolation made me think of that.”

However, the academic realised the electronic part he had did the opposite – and would only complete a circuit when there was no magnetic field present.

“I accidentally invented a necklace that buzzes continuously unless you move your hand close to your face,” he said.

“After scrapping that idea, I was still a bit bored, playing with the magnets. It’s the same logic as clipping pegs to your ears – I clipped them to my earlobes and then clipped them to my nostril and things went downhill pretty quickly when I clipped the magnets to my other nostril.”

Reardon said he placed two magnets inside his nostrils, and two on the outside. When he removed the magnets from the outside of his nose, the two inside stuck together. Unfortunately, the researcher then attempted to use his remaining magnets to remove them.

“At this point, my partner who works at a hospital was laughing at me,” he said. “I was trying to pull them out but there is a ridge at the bottom of my nose you can’t get past.

“After struggling for 20 minutes, I decided to Google the problem and found an article about an 11-year-old boy who had the same problem. The solution in that was more magnets. To put on the outside to offset the pull from the ones inside.

“As I was pulling downwards to try and remove the magnets, they clipped on to each other and I lost my grip. And those two magnets ended up in my left nostril while the other one was in my right. At this point I ran out of magnets.”

Before attending the hospital, Reardon attempted to use pliers to pull them out, but they became magnetised by the magnets inside his nose.

“Every time I brought the pliers close to my nose, my entire nose would shift towards the pliers and then the pliers would stick to the magnet,” he said. “It was a little bit painful at this point.


https://www.theguardian.com/austral...zsFz5D9tD1sLT_07AaW6g6CJ_x3U-t0oKQ1gtV9w29wkc

 

For those interested in tech medical stuff.
To read the full article, click on the "More here" prompt at the end of the brief intro.
As it says on the tin, you'll get to the long read...

https://www.3quarksdaily.com/3quark...he-race-to-develop-a-coronavirus-vaccine.html

 

Helps to keep things in perspective maybe?