Coronavirus outbreak

[tom73]

Thanks for your thoughts.

On the other side I hope the tech side which I've written about does come on board the next month to three months for testing. A mobile qPCR or other test would give more of a sporting chance of picking up covid-19 cases early in prisons if there are few releases. I do have worries generally that when this fantastic tech comes into force it may suffer from a lack of imagination by the government and it just being used in hospitals and the odd large health centre, rather than more widely (you do need someone to take swabs and run the machines and a few other things, but this could be done at a large number of sites than at present).

yes tech will come into it's own in the current situation. As you say lack of imagination is the problem together with willingness to change. The NHS recored on tech is crap as it is. So many things can already be done a lot cheeper, quicker and at low cost. It's just not joined up enough and mostly left to people who are clueless. As you know a lot of paper is still flying around which should have been ended long ago.

 

[Joey Shabadoo]

logistics of sending them out or gathering the required parts ? Or both !

A bit of both I think.

 

[tom73]

When we get locked down people need to look back on this before they blame government, anyone else or beat up the 1st "Foreign" looking person they find.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-51994504

1000's are likely to die shortly and you've just added a few extra 1000 to the totally. Nice one people

 

[Proto]

On another board a guy working for a pharmaceutical firm says his company are working on an order for 6.5m test kits. What's slowing them down is the logistics.

im pretty sure that the electo-mechanical itself is relatively easy - pumps,valves, timers, sensor etc - but the clever part is the feedback and control of the device. They are very sophisticated.

 

[Dave7]

Ah, with it now.

Your conclusion is the correct one, but of course, it's not the one I want to hear.

Difficult choice. When we had our static it was on a big plot, maybe 30 metres from our nearest neighbour. No club or pub. So effectively we are nearer to our neighbours at home than we would be there.

 

[Rickshaw Phil]

When we get locked down people need to look back on this before they blame government, anyone else or beat up the 1st "Foreign" looking person they find.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-51994504

1000's are likely to die shortly and you've just added a few extra 1000 to the totally. Nice one people

I was going to post that link myself. Somehow I don't think that our current freedom to go out on solitary walks or cycle rides is going to last very long. Thanks a bunch people.

 

[Dave7]

Horrible whatever it's called 😢 When I was in the prison service I had the misfortune to be first on the scene of a 19 year old girl hanging. Rest of the staff came round and we did CPR and technically got her out alive, but sadly the brain must have been starved of oxygen for a bit too long and life support was switched off a couple of days later. You then have to relive it all again months down the line at a fatal accident enquiry.

Sad that Mo. Something you are not likely to forget.

 

[johnnyb47]

I'm really worried about my elderly neighbour. She suffers with dementia but also very strong minded and set in her ways.
She won't stay in no matter how much i tell her. She doesn't seem to realise how vulnerable she is, and is not taking self isolation or social distancing seriously.. I keep going on and on at her to be careful to the point she now thinks I'm being argumentive.
Last night for instance she decided, she was going to the local Indian restaurant (as she always does every Saturday night)
Trying to persuade her that it's shut was impossible. I had to get them to call her and say they where shut.
Today whilst filling the car up with fuel she came walking past the petrol station with her groceries. She said hello and i felt awful not offering her a lift back home because of social distancing. Later on she's back outside again bringing me a bottle of wine over to say thank for sorting her house smoke alarms out the other week.
Its really difficult at the moment trying to persuade her to realise she's in danger without offending her.
With all this going on and that my job for the last 13 years may come to end next week due to the turn down of work from this bloody virus my mood and nerves are somewhat fraught.
God knows how the bills will get paid.
The thing is though we are all in the same boat with similar problems going on at the moment.
At least I've got my bike to use and escape all this madness for the time being 🙄

 

[tom73]

Finally had an email from work about what happening at school nice to know your valued
look's like I'm done for the duration. Better hold onto the bike fund I my need it.

 

[tom73]

I'm really worried about my elderly neighbour. She suffers with dementia but also very strong minded and set in her ways.
She won't stay in no matter how much i tell her. She doesn't seem to realise how vulnerable she is, and is not taking self isolation or social distancing seriously.. I keep going on and on at her to be careful to the point she now thinks I'm being argumentive.
Last night for instance she decided, she was going to the local Indian restaurant (as she always does every Saturday night)
Trying to persuade her that it's shut was impossible. I had to get them to call her and say they where shut.
Today whilst filling the car up with fuel she came walking past the petrol station with her groceries. She said hello and i felt awful not offering her a lift back home because of social distancing. Later on she's back outside again bringing me a bottle of wine over to say thank for sorting her house smoke alarms out the other week.
Its really difficult at the moment trying to persuade her to realise she's in danger without offending her.
With all this going on and that my job for the last 13 years may come to end next week due to the turn down of work from this bloody virus my mood and nerves are somewhat fraught.
God knows how the bills will get paid.
The thing is though we are all in the same boat with similar problems going on at the moment.
At least I've got my bike to use and escape all this madness for the time being 🙄

mmmm that's a difficult one all you can do is what your doing which is your best. Has she any relatives or social service involvement. Who can try and help her? Our try if you know which her GP.

 

[johnnyb47]

@tom73.
Sadly she's got no family to fall back on, and is very stubborn and to proud to ask for help. People who don't know her, would find her somewhat eccentric and aggressive, but underneath that hard exterior she's a very thoughtful caring person. It's just very difficult in persuading her to take this all seriously without getting a clout around the earhole with her brolly at the moment

 

[Dave7]

Just reading that Snowdon had its busiest Saturday in history yesterday
Are these people totally bl**dy mad AND selfish.

 

[Dave Davenport]

Just reading that Snowdon had its busiest Saturday in history yesterday
Are these people totally bl**dy mad AND selfish.

It would appear so.

 

[Rickshaw Phil]

Just reading that Snowdon had its busiest Saturday in history yesterday
Are these people totally bl**dy mad AND selfish.

Yes, I'm afraid so.

 

[Dave Davenport]

Just been to Lidl, was quite quiet and the only shelves completely empty was loo rolls & tissues etc. I assume all the stockpiling numpties have run out of storage space.