Coronavirus: Please use this thread for all COVID19 talk!

A rousing cry of "entropy will win out no matter what we do, and all we build today will be dust tomorrow, but anyhoo let's get those sales numbers up" doesn't get the team ready for the day?

 

Could be just the ticket actually, when can you start?

 

A good piece in the New York Times about the vaccine trials. The pay wall is down.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/27/...action=click&module=Spotlight&pgtype=Homepage

 

Our subdivision of time into such infinitesimal fractions as "days" is a meaningless construct aimed an obfuscating the sheer meaninglessness of an existence that comes and goes so quickly that the only mark we make is the damage we leave on our planet.

Also, Thursday.

 

The person with covid-19, in my apartment block, has sadly died.
His daughter was with him, I am told.
I can’t say that I know who it was, although I would probably know him by sight.

 

Sad news TB .

 

Did anyone watch Panorama, last night? I didn’t but it is generating a lot of interest, and has revealed the following, which is quite disgraceful.

 

WTAF

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/mar/26/lockdown-britain-quietly-downgraded-status-virus-t/

 

My sympathies for him but a bit too close to home for you and your wife Badger. Best wishes.

 

I totally and utterly agree, and I have made the case to the production manager. He says he will talk to the catalyst and other increasing people concerned.
In my opinion, although I like the guy's general everyday management style, he's weak in this situation.

 

But you will still have to register to read it for free.

Here's two excerpts from the article which give some hope.

"In the worldwide race for a vaccine to stop the coronavirus, the laboratory sprinting fastest is at Oxford University.

Most other teams have had to start with small clinical trials of a few hundred participants to demonstrate safety. But scientists at the university’s Jenner Institute had a head start on a vaccine, having proved in previous trials that similar inoculations — including one last year against an earlier coronavirus — were harmless to humans."

and

"Scientists at the National Institutes of Health’s Rocky Mountain Laboratory in Montana last month inoculated six rhesus macaque monkeys with single doses of the Oxford vaccine. The animals were then exposed to heavy quantities of the virus that is causing the pandemic — exposure that had consistently sickened other monkeys in the lab. But more than 28 days later all six were healthy, said Vincent Munster, the researcher who conducted the test."

 

Unbelievable

I, for one, desperately want to be home before Christmas and will do almost anything to ensure I and all around me are safe!
Went into the local town here in SA today. One other person wearing a mask (and that was the guy I went in with). People keeping a reasonable distance but no concerns about passing the virus on. The general feeling here appears to be that it’s a white, rich, privileged disease and we’ll be ok .....
I want to be well out of here before reality kicks in .......

 

Being liked or being nice is not is not essential for personal happiness.

Some of the unhappiest people I know desperately need to be liked and pay an emotional price for being nice all of the time.

 

The longer this goes on and the more people discover how much of a disaster the government's response to coronavirus has been, the more we will realise that our current government are heartless, soulless and do not care about either us or those brave poor souls fighting to save lives on the front line. It's like a sick parody of the first word war when the generals made idiotic decisions which resulted in the deaths of thousands of young soldiers every day, while they sipped brandy after a 5 course meal.

The mainstream media, with a few exceptions, are absolutely useless and complicit in this unfolding disaster. It's a national disgrace that so many are denied even the basics of personal protection or a decent living wage by politicians who have the brass neck to clap them on a Thursday night. It's hard, almost impossible, to think of a more hypocritical response and my hope is that people across the country see this for what it is.

Boris Johnson says we have been mugged by a silent killer. No Boris, the people of this country have been mugged by a cynical, lying, thoroughly dishonest and inept government that is causing thousands of unnecessary deaths due to its rank incompetence. This goes way beyond ministers making mistakes. This is criminal negligence on a national scale.

 

Being liked certainly isn’t a prerequisite for happiness. Being nice - if nice means considerate and empathetic - almost certainly is.

 

And yet on many social media platforms,he has his fans saying what a fantastic job Boris and his ministers are doing.
And yes these are unfortunately the same people who voted for Brexit .......all of them blinded by bullshit.

 

Notable that there are a number of articles in the mail telegraph and times slating the government's inept handling of the crisis. May influence some of the Borettes and toretts.

 

Coronavirus: RAF flypast for Captain Tom's 100th birthday.

Captain Tom Moore's 100th birthday will be marked with an RAF flypast, the transport secretary has announced. The war veteran, who has raised more than £29m for the NHS by walking laps of his garden, turns 100 on Thursday.

The Department for Transport blocked an earlier plan for a flypast of his home organised by a Spitfire restoration firm, as it was deemed "non-essential". (mean bastards)

Transport Secretary Grant Shapps wrote on Twitter that the RAF aerial salute was "meant to be a surprise". (like **** it was)

The Ministry of Defence said the flypast would "celebrate Captain Tom's birthday and mark his amazing fundraising achievement".

Drawing on recently formed and fully equipped RAF PPE shipment squadrons a government spokesperson suggest this flypast will be a symbol of 'a country united' in the war against the dastardly silent mugger, and an opportunity for the whole country to recognise the lengths to which the government is prepared to honour those special individuals who have gone beyond the call of duty .....

 

Sorry mate, but how on earth can you quantify these are the people that voted for Brexit? It seems a rather sweeping generalisation to make a point.

I rarely venture on here now days as the site has become nothing more than a political knife, and the people to have a different view are generally riled or shoved out (not saying you do that btw - but those who do it know who they are).

I am not really political in any way, it hasn't ever really interested me. But I will suppose this virus has caught out nearly every government and would have likely caught out people different than who we have now. I don't think we will ever get to the truth behind how this all started, or what the government have or haven't done.

I do realise though that the press have their own agendas and a lot of what has been written covers a certain angle for them.

I for one dont buy into any conspiracy that the government haven't had the best intentions, and accept they are likely to have made certain mistakes. Who amongst us hasn't.