Coronavirus

[eighthobstruction]

My dad used to often say that. I could never work out who Polly Tess was!

Well [as I say incessantly].........I think some people are going to die of boredom....(those poor people without the R3 +R3 Forum habit....)[of course]....of course S_A my imagination is my life blood and with the simple sword of truth and the trusty shield of fair play, so be it. I am ready for the fight,{Oh no that's someone else....}....round here we say"turned out nice again" even if a leg is hanging off...Ah yes but my imagination is because as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not kno, but my imagination knows them....simples....

[oddoneout]

....I coughed up £20....revenge? ....she then coughed 3 times on 3x £5....but I did take all her change....took fivers home and covered them in san jel....these new polymer notes may save lives....now gradually exchanging the old £20 from under my bed into new polymer ones....life is exciting, i can smell the wiff of san jel in my nostrils and it makes me feel ALIVE.....

Must be the stuff being produced by UK distilleries...

[DracoM]

Just heard on Weekend WH - 'men more likely to die from the virus than women'.
Has anybody else heard that and where are the stats?

Came as complete news to me!

[eighthobstruction]

Getting more and more fed up hearing the US Fake President refer to the SARS-CoV-2 virus as the "Chinese virus". I propose it be renamed the "Trump virus", after the trumpeted dry cough, of course.

....yep definitely the Trump virus....from now on....

[Bryn]

Signed 3.49. Total 6672
Confirmed 17.25. Total 7121

A slower response than I had hoped, especially given the temporary restricted release of wrongly imprisoned Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe.

[Bryn]

Just heard on Weekend WH - 'men more likely to die form the virus than women'.
Has anybody else heard that and where are the stats?

Came as complete news to me!

https://www.postguam.com/the_globe/world/why-is-coronavirus-killing-more-men-than-women/article_81297096-5e95-11ea-aaae-675ef4e28e15.html

[MrGongGong]

Listening to BBC News just now, I came to understand why some are stockpiling toilet tissue. It's the way some pronounce the word "aerosol" when describing how the virus is transmitted.

It seems that it's ok to "stockpile" wealth and resources but not bog roll

[Dave2002]

I'm still trying to figure if Dave2002's post was meant as some kind of rebuke? The problems of having subtletly deficiency personality syndrome, eh, eighth?

You mean post 623. Banter, merely, banter. Hope it didn't offend you. Now we all have to figure out what "sedulous" means. You may get some spurious hits if you search for it, but there is a respectable meaning.

PS - I will deal with my inbox issue - later.

[LHC]

https://www.postguam.com/the_globe/w...ef4e28e15.html

Italy is showing the same pattern, with more men than women dying. The reason why men are more at risk is not clear, but it may be because women have stronger immune systems, men tend to smoke more, and men are less likely to wash their hands as often.

[Bryn]

You mean post 623. Banter, merely, banter. Hope it didn't offend you. Now we all have to figure out what "sedulous" means. You may get some spurious hits if you search for it, but there is a respectable meaning. . . .

As in http://www.for3.org/forums/showthrea...874#post624874

[Bryn]

BBC News is repeatedly showing a clip on how to wash hands "properly". No need for water until rinsing, it appears, just liquid soap. I thought the official advice was to use soap and warm water, though I find that by the end of 20 seconds of active washing, cold water with soap warms up somewhat.

[DracoM]

https://www.postguam.com/the_globe/w...ef4e28e15.html

Oh dear...............!!

[eighthobstruction]

You mean post 623. Banter, merely, banter. Hope it didn't offend you. Now we all have to figure out what "sedulous" means. You may get some spurious hits if you search for it, but there is a respectable meaning.

PS - I will deal with my inbox issue - later.

....all is /and was well in the kingdom.... .... .... {me and S_A are protective of one another being meagre jazzers....}

[johnb]

It is no wonder neither the government nor the experts are giving the likely number of people currently infected (as distinct from those confirmed by testing) and what the death toll is likely to be in the next 14 days. I've done some maths using publicly available data and the results are ... scary - to the extent that I am reluctant to say more.

Of course I might well be totally wrong.

[Bryn]

It is no wonder neither the government nor the experts are giving the likely number of people currently infected (as distinct from those confirmed by testing) and what the death toll is likely to be in the next 14 days. I've done some maths using publicly available data and the results are ... scary - to the extent that I am reluctant to say more. . . .

All the more reason to isolate, isolate, isolate!