Rocky
Hello decadence
I fear you are right. There’s no easy answer to all this.
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Absolutely. There may be a lag as some services people feel all right until something goes wrong and support that is no longer there or just don't know where to look for info. I volunteed on-line. I'm not sure how many different organisations have transitioned to other tech options such as phone lines being done from home instead of a central location, face to face support becoming phone, face to face support being video conferencing etc (the latter for me).
P.S. I really did see a lot of services announcing on social media that the phone line/groups/whatever had ended. Transitioned less sure about.
nickyboy
Norven Mankey
- Location
- You want hills? We got hills
Spent many a happy night in the Queens in my youth (I used to own a house in Stricklandgate). One day, when all this comes to an end, I'll tell the story of how I was banned for life from the New Inn
It will be happening tonight on the way home.
Booze is the best bit of a supermarket to work in my opinion. Instead of having people threatening to punch your lights out as there's no bog roll you become someone's 'best friend' if you genuinely think there might be some booze in the back or a delivery just coming in
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deptfordmarmoset
Full time tea drinker
- Location
- Armonmy Way
An appropriate time for supporting your local craft brewery if they have a canning line. Deptford's Villages brewery dropped me off a case on Monday. Their Taproom and pub outlets are no use to them now.
Fab Foodie
hanging-on in quiet desperation ...
- Location
- Kirton, Devon.
Joey Shabadoo
My pronouns are "He", "Him" and "buggerlugs"
This Chancellor is coming across very well.
I kinda get that. If you take it as read that most people are going to catch this and it's important to keep the flow into the NHS at manageable levels it makes sense to control that flow by controlling the number of people getting infected. All the while keeping the most vulnerable isolated until a vaccine is available.
My wife and I expect her to be staying indoors for the rest of the year and we think we've devised a regime we can bring in when things are relaxed enough for me to go to work.
I was reading an article on the Beeb site today that says that isolation measures may be switched on and off to control infection rates and I have to confess to it feeling slightly disturbing that I'm part of a population that is being proactively manipulated.
I kinda get that. If you take it as read that most people are going to catch this and it's important to keep the flow into the NHS at manageable levels it makes sense to control that flow by controlling the number of people getting infected. All the while keeping the most vulnerable isolated until a vaccine is available.
My wife and I expect her to be staying indoors for the rest of the year and we think we've devised a regime we can bring in when things are relaxed enough for me to go to work.
nickyboy
Norven Mankey
- Location
- You want hills? We got hills
There are nearly 80,000 A&E admissions for "unintentional injuries" relating to alcohol (I presume this means falling over etc) every year.
https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-inf...statistical/statistics-on-alcohol/2019/part-1
I guess we will see a big reduction of these on the front line as "home drinking" feels much less susceptible than pub drinking which should take some pressure off A&E staff too?
https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-inf...statistical/statistics-on-alcohol/2019/part-1
I guess we will see a big reduction of these on the front line as "home drinking" feels much less susceptible than pub drinking which should take some pressure off A&E staff too?
Joey Shabadoo
My pronouns are "He", "Him" and "buggerlugs"
Also less fighting in the streets and drunk driving
On/off just reflect cases starting to come back rapidly or 2nd peak in winter. Or that we don't know what'll happen. Italy a good case in point, we're watching that country and the figures today are absolutely catastrophic. Better news from China no new cases again, but importing cases (and apparently picking them up).
- Location
- London
we need some light relief - do tell us now. special measures.
- Location
- London
It's been asked before but does anyone believe the figures from china?
they are saying zero apart from in folk arrived from abroad?
sounds very hard to believe to me.
newfhouse
Resolutely on topic
Do you think anyone has meaningful control of the infection rate? I bet there are all sorts of unforeseen inputs, hysteresis, and latency issues that make it near impossible. Even if there is a joystick, who would you trust to be in the pilot’s seat?
Joey Shabadoo
My pronouns are "He", "Him" and "buggerlugs"
I think they can in the overall scheme of things. Total isolation* would mean zero new infections, no isolation at all would mean X new infections. If they can keep a broad handle on it, maybe they can more or less control it.
* I know total isolation isn't possible.
I'm not an expert and I readily defer to those with real expertise on this board, but I'm not a particularly stupid man and I'd hope I could work things out.
RoadRider400
Some bloke that likes cycling alone
To some extent they are bailing out the banks again indirectly. By ensuring most people have enough money to pay their credit card bills. Not to say I disagree with what they are doing because I think its bloody brilliant.
