Coronavirus outbreak

[randynewmanscat]

Apart from a lack of internets due to all the homeworkers.....
Oh wait, maybe we should ban streaming movies between 0800 and 1800...

Lack of internets is the norm here, 2.4Mbps downstream on a good day. I wait for Musks ruin the night sky extremely fast internet because Orange won't be laying fibre past my house anytime soon, of course I am absolutely happy that I subsidise people in big cities who pay the same as me for 200Mbps downstream.
Interesting fact of restrictions on shop openings here, computer/phone and computer repair shops to remain open for now. Connectivity is being viewed as an essential for information and staying in touch with people you know.

 

[tom73]

Maybe lost in the rest of todays news.

Vodafone, EE, O2 and Three are among the mobile firms that have said they will give their customers free online access to the latest NHS health information about coronavirus.

It will be free to access the following websites:

• nhs.uk
• 111.nhs.uk
• wales.nhs.uk
• nhsinform.scot
• nidirect.gov.uk
• publichealth.hscni.net

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/...ata-charges-for-online-nhs-coronavirus-advice

 

[Mugshot]

Someone mentioned earlier people profiteering from Corona, have a gander at this lot:


View: https://twitter.com/nowthisnews/status/1240355540691226625?s=20


Yeah, yeah, I know it's another tweet, but what do you want me to do, type it all out for you?

 

[rualexander]

https://www.theleader.info/2020/03/...6-mgAAtIL24gCVlXpfPwxQCf2oqOPHizcHEcNr-VAu8so

One person per car in Spain

But solo cyclists are still banned from riding their bikes?!

 

[Mugshot]

Anyone else noticed how many of the "key workers" are the low paid, unskilled ones that Patel was telling us she was going to get booted out of the country a few weeks ago?

 

[randynewmanscat]

Someone mentioned earlier people profiteering from Corona, have a gander at this lot:


View: https://twitter.com/nowthisnews/status/1240355540691226625?s=20


Yeah, yeah, I know it's another tweet, but what do you want me to do, type it all out for you?

There was a character with as much integrity as her in the film "There Will Be Blood" and it was not Daniel Day Lewis character. As for the Bill Hicks lookalike, I spare a thought for him each time I kneel on my those I want to die from a horrendous death prayer mat.
He's on shaky ground this week with a threat to put him away for snake oil claims and a just under the limit DUI with hints of wife beating thrown in. He sorely needs to expire from the worst condition possible.

 

[rualexander]

Several articles and studies are showing some promise in the use of the anti-malarial drug chloroquine as a treatment for covid-19. Either on it's own or in combination with other antiviral drugs.
The benefit of chloroquine is that it is a reasonably safe drug with a long history of use.

e.g. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32164085

 

[Heigue'r]

Lots of army trucks being seen on the outskirts of london tonight,I would imagine there is a stricter lockdown on the way very soon

 

[Pale Rider]

My elderly mother told me she had a note through the door from a charity offering to get her shopping in.

A heartening gesture, and happily for me and her, not needed because my older brother has that well covered.

Her attitude to the virus is that it's not worth getting excited about, mixed with a little annoyance that it's curtailing her already limited social life.

I've seen instances before in which older people cannot get vexed about, say, a tragedy that's befallen their family.

They are sympathetic, but I think the knowledge they will likely die sooner rather than later puts things into perspective.

 

[randynewmanscat]

Anyone else noticed how many of the "key workers" are the low paid, unskilled ones that Patel was telling us she was going to get booted out of the country a few weeks ago?

I have not seen the woman in moving pictures for a wee while. Does she still have her natural resting face (contemptuous smirk) when facing awkward questions or have her PR staff coached her for a more sympathetic look?

 

[randynewmanscat]

Lots of army trucks being seen on the outskirts of london tonight,I would imagine there is a stricter lockdown on the way very soon

You are serious? BuzzFeed has this as bollox news.

 

[vickster]

Several articles and studies are showing some promise in the use of the anti-malarial drug chloroquine as a treatment for covid-19. Either on it's own or in combination with other antiviral drugs.
The benefit of chloroquine is that it is a reasonably safe drug with a long history of use.

e.g. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32164085

Interesting, I take hydroxycholoroquine daily (and vitamin d as another thread)

 

[Heigue'r]

You are serious?

Yes,a convoy heading through east london/essex

 

[randynewmanscat]

Yes,a convoy heading through east london/essex

Source please!

 

[Heigue'r]

Source please!

The mother in law watching from her living room window