Yes, but at my work the shortage appears to be self Inflicted. On my first virus focused shift & after my briefing l thought "Eh? This makes no sense, l am going to get through 50/60 masks a shift". There are 12 porters in 24 hours...
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Yes, but at my work the shortage appears to be self Inflicted. On my first virus focused shift & after my briefing l thought "Eh? This makes no sense, l am going to get through 50/60 masks a shift". There are 12 porters in 24 hours...
well it was going to happen no cricket until May at earliest. 
starting later not going to easy fear they will just focus on the money games and forget the rest.
https://www.ecb.co.uk/news/1647413/ecb-announces-delay-to-professional-cricket-season
starting later not going to easy fear they will just focus on the money games and forget the rest.
https://www.ecb.co.uk/news/1647413/ecb-announces-delay-to-professional-cricket-season
To confirm that Southwold has been invaded by a bunch of grossly irresponsible second home-owning idiots:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-suffolk-51966938
There's a fair amount of pot kettle black going on there.
A lot of retirees are also in their early to mid-50s so not so old! Not underplaying any risk and great that they can and are able to help.
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Off topic but I work in head and neck cancer arena and the speech and language therapists are fab
. I guess I'll be in the big hospital soon. Can't complain as I take the King's shilling..
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Off topic but I work in head and neck cancer arena and the speech and language therapists are fab
She is fab! The loveliest young woman you could wish to meet. Yet, another is a police officer (and ex-pro cyclist). Son is civil engineering lecturer at a college in Devon.
So proud of them all. Really love my kids.
Tonight, as my wife and I are in self isolation, we had ‘Friday Night Dinner’ using Zoom Meeting software, each household cooked and laid a table, set up our laptops and socialised over the web. Worked really well!
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Joey Shabadoo
My pronouns are "He", "Him" and "buggerlugs"
I'm fuming tonight. My kid sister is a nursing assistant at Ninewells. As someone working in a hospital, my parents have had to tell her repeatedly that they couldn't meet her for dinner or go out shopping as both are in their 70s and my father has COPD. Tonight she's out partying, posting vids of her and her friends getting smashed in packed pubs. "Woo hoo - party time!".
I'm farking livid.
The way to stop the disgraceful behaviours is to make those doing it social pariahs - name and shame - disrupt the event.
https://www.itv.com/news/2020-03-20...nhs-staff-for-coronavirus-available-in-weeks/
some positive news someone's working on a mobile qPCR test kit. Every hospital in the land could have one of these. 1250 hospitals x batch 16 x 10 cycles per day = 200,000 samples per day.
This is such good news that the government need detailed plans on how to distribute them and prevent obvious bottlenecks. Even how to deal with all the data if implemented properly. If both sides the pcr and antibody side work out they may even need a national covid-19 database.
some positive news someone's working on a mobile qPCR test kit. Every hospital in the land could have one of these. 1250 hospitals x batch 16 x 10 cycles per day = 200,000 samples per day.
This is such good news that the government need detailed plans on how to distribute them and prevent obvious bottlenecks. Even how to deal with all the data if implemented properly. If both sides the pcr and antibody side work out they may even need a national covid-19 database.
Joey Shabadoo
My pronouns are "He", "Him" and "buggerlugs"
Repeated on a grand scale. Unfortunately a lot of the conditions listed as being at risk are common.
I got a closing time telephone call from a friend telling me about how busy the pub was and asking if I wanted to go out next Friday? Where? Someone random person's house. I probs can't see him for a while, doing too many things for my parents. In fairness he does think it's too late to implement anything and we're all doomed (although he thinks the death toll will be a lot lower than my estimates).
My boy has just come in brandishing his phone now listing the provisions and coming into effect of the anti-infection legislation. Effective midnight.
You can still use public highways to get to shops and other things necessary for daily life, but basically everything else is now prohibited. It is still possible to go for walks in the country, but either alone, or as a couple (with children), but under no circumstances to meet with other people, and always to keep the 1.50 metre apart rule. This will all be in force provisionally until 3rd April. Basically the same as Bavaria.
This was invoked with some regret, and the town mayor said most of the population had been keeping the existing restrictions admirably - except some young people were tending to congregate in too large a number, with the risk to them and the rest of the population. The police have been empowered to enforce the restrictions.
You can still use public highways to get to shops and other things necessary for daily life, but basically everything else is now prohibited. It is still possible to go for walks in the country, but either alone, or as a couple (with children), but under no circumstances to meet with other people, and always to keep the 1.50 metre apart rule. This will all be in force provisionally until 3rd April. Basically the same as Bavaria.
This was invoked with some regret, and the town mayor said most of the population had been keeping the existing restrictions admirably - except some young people were tending to congregate in too large a number, with the risk to them and the rest of the population. The police have been empowered to enforce the restrictions.
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Cracking a solo.
Little update to this, apparently they've had loads donated by various kind hearted souls, so they're sorted now
However, her boss went to get a click and collect today and was have a general moan to the fella sorting it with him about the things they couldn't get etc etc, the Tesco fella, with the customers name covered of course, showed him the note for the next customer due, they had ordered (and had refused) £75.00 worth of toilet roll!
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"Medics are warning that numbers are doubling every three or four days and that the NHS in London will be treating “thousands” of people with the disease within a fortnight.
Unpublished NHS figures obtained by the Guardian show that the number of people confirmed or suspected to have Covid-19 being treated in an intensive care unit (ICU) in hospitals in south London rose from seven on Friday 6 March to 93 on Tuesday 17 March – a fifteenfold increase in 12 days.
Doctors are worried that 86 of the 93 cases last Tuesday were on a ventilator... 82 of the 86 required level three care, in which they are anaesthetised and have a tube put down their throat and the ventilator takes over the work of their lungs while they are unconscious. The remaining 4 require ECMO*... the highest level of medical intervention the NHS can provide to try to keep alive someone whose lungs have failed. It involves taking blood out of their body, adding oxygen to it and putting it back in again.
The NHS and government have not published any figures showing how many people with Covid-19 are receiving critical care, even though Public Health England (PHE) now collects them each day from all 134 acute hospital trusts in England.
PHE and NHS England refused a Guardian request to see the latest data for both London and England as a whole because it was “still experimental” and involved some “quality” issues.
One doctor warned that it was only a matter of time before hospitals in London ran out of intensive care beds and had to start making difficult decisions about which patients could go on a ventilator.
Doctors also raised concerns about widespread shortages of the personal protective equipment needed to treat Covid-19 patients, given how infectious the disease is. “We are out of visors and masks are constantly running out in different locations,” said one."
Last week didn't they say the plan involves 60% of the population catching it?
* there are only 30 ECMO beds in the whole country
Unpublished NHS figures obtained by the Guardian show that the number of people confirmed or suspected to have Covid-19 being treated in an intensive care unit (ICU) in hospitals in south London rose from seven on Friday 6 March to 93 on Tuesday 17 March – a fifteenfold increase in 12 days.
Doctors are worried that 86 of the 93 cases last Tuesday were on a ventilator... 82 of the 86 required level three care, in which they are anaesthetised and have a tube put down their throat and the ventilator takes over the work of their lungs while they are unconscious. The remaining 4 require ECMO*... the highest level of medical intervention the NHS can provide to try to keep alive someone whose lungs have failed. It involves taking blood out of their body, adding oxygen to it and putting it back in again.
The NHS and government have not published any figures showing how many people with Covid-19 are receiving critical care, even though Public Health England (PHE) now collects them each day from all 134 acute hospital trusts in England.
PHE and NHS England refused a Guardian request to see the latest data for both London and England as a whole because it was “still experimental” and involved some “quality” issues.
One doctor warned that it was only a matter of time before hospitals in London ran out of intensive care beds and had to start making difficult decisions about which patients could go on a ventilator.
Doctors also raised concerns about widespread shortages of the personal protective equipment needed to treat Covid-19 patients, given how infectious the disease is. “We are out of visors and masks are constantly running out in different locations,” said one."
Last week didn't they say the plan involves 60% of the population catching it?
* there are only 30 ECMO beds in the whole country
