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My dad has had his cruise cancelled and refunded, which ok glad about, as he was debating whether to go or not.

Yup. It'll take around 10 days or so before it's ready. Doesn't always work first time; you'll find lots of lightly conflicting advice online to attempt to mitigate this. But you've nothing to lose by trying except a few hundred grams of flour.

Its almost inevitable at this rate. Biggest worry is if my folks get ill...

Could you not do a few batches at once and use the most successful?

You're relying on airborne bacterial colonies to find a home. I see no reason why that would be concerning right now.

Folding@Home Coronavirus edition:

https://github.com/FoldingAtHome/coronavirus

Bejeezus!

Same job would be ~£15k less outside of London, and the same house in London would cost... Probably over a million.

I don't think that's an exaggeration. Maybe right on the outskirts. Londoners?

I don't know, I've not seen your house. Possibly a lot more if you're within zone 3

Yardstick is that Islington and nearby Hackney is between £900-1000 per sq ft

Well whichever it was, I don't see it happening now.

I was supposed to be going to Spain next month. That's that buggered then.

We have a trip to Croatia planned for May.
Can’t see it happening.

I’m pretty sure the play Sal and I are performing in will get postponed. It’s end of May.

https://www.runnersworld.com/news/a3064 ... ronavirus/



Hospitals don't need to be treating people who bring it on themselves.

Well that's smokers and diabetics done then

All fine

P&O cancelled my ma's friend's cruise earlier.

*says nothing*

And old people.

Me too!

Thin the herd I say

Tight feeling chest, restricted breathing, mild dry cough, bit achey.

Guess I'm staying home for the next 7 days!

I'm not that convinced old people brought it on themselves

Grrr, those old people living such a long time! It’s unnatural. *shakes fist*

I've got some you can have. Might need a scraper though.

That's exactly how I feel, but I've smoked 30 fags this weekend

Not really what I was getting at, unless they reacted to the current epidemic by doing something that places them at high risk for no good reason at all. Like thousands of otherwise very fit adults deciding to go out and temporarily get themselves the immune systems of an ill old person. Crazy.

So we've had to cancel the trip, which is obviously a very minor thing in the greater scheme of things (and thanks to airbnb and ANZ being great, it looks like we'll get back pretty much all of our money), but it is making the world feel a lot more scary. The rug can be pulled out at any time, and things are going to get a lot worse.

As mentioned before, I'm very worried that travel restrictions will change such that we won't be able to visit the UK in the summer, and as my parents are in all the risk categories, I'm a bit concerned.

It's not clear what is going to happen medium to long term - the "herd immunity" thing the CSO trailed but which Hancock is now rowing back on doesn't make sense, as immunity to these sorts of things usually isn't long lived. It feels like this is something that is going to be around for a long while (At least until large scale vaccination is possible), or it disappears as mysteriously as SARS and the 1918 influenza did.

Ruth's research for the Ministry of Health here is scaring the shit out of me, but I think we're probably in one of the best places of earth if this goes titsup (there are orders of magnitude more hospital beds per head here than the UK, for instance, and we've got a very sensible government that is providing constant updates and explanations)

I cannot believe how lame our measures of containment are compared to nearly every other country in Europe.

I think we need to confine you to this thread.

Hope you're okay though.

I'm fine Bit more of an effort to breathe, feels like i've got something sitting on my chest the whole time, but other than that nothing to worry about.

Do I have it? Who knows. I have a lot of the symptoms but they aren't testing folks unless they are in hospital, so I guess I will never know.

The guy at the Local post office tells me that he is doing pre-orders on toilet rolls.

Well either way, look after yourself.

I ache from head to toe, and feel like crap. No Coronavirus symptoms though. I'm really hoping we get sent home from work tomorrow.

Our play has been postponed until the autumn.

This is…not good.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/ ... spitalised

It's also based on assumptions, when nobody really knows how many people have it and what the critical infection rate and mortality rate is.
Unfortunately we aren't going to know for sure for a long time, as now they are only testing the people who are hospitalised.

This is a bit better reading

https://theconversation.com/coronavirus ... bookbutton

but again, it's based on assumptions and guesswork.

As with all these things, I supsect the truth lies somewhere inbetween the two positions.

high temp: check
cough: check.

Bugger.
(I don't think its corona,as I feel alright and I'm developing a snotty nose, but better to be safe)

Zoom appears to be struggling, our usual 9:36am standup was a flick book brady bunch where everyone was in australia from each other.

That's interesting, we're on the verge of rolling it out, good stress test.

Teams for us struggled a bit this morning but picked back up half an hour later.

Royal Mail are certainly taking no chances with their parcel delivery: Postie has to place the parcel on the ground for me to pick up. He then has to sign for it himself and add CV19 after the surname.

Under normal circumstances it's the best one we have found (we've tested a lot of them as we have two permanent remote folks on the team).
It's much clearer than Slack, Hangouts and Skype.

Yeah Teams had a blip this morning at the Microsoft side

https://www.theverge.com/2020/3/16/2118 ... oronavirus

We have had issues with teams and skype

We bought someof the last remaining BBQ baked beans from morrisoms and along with about 2kg of pasta dumped it in the food bank trolley.

How is it with Doc's echo?

Idiot. everyone knows Doc's quacks don't echo

No need for Zoom, just ask him to speak up a little.

Just grabbed a load of BBQ baked beans and about 2kg of pasta someone had put in a Morrisons food bank trolly!