Lol I love the office
I’m not superstitious but I am a little stitious
Weekend activities! (old thread reanimated)
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I have so many of those drills in my man’s hideaway 
in the basement.
But how can I handle those over to you in “Love in time the cholera” (sic)
(You know that book?)
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Never heard of that book lol
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Read it!
Gabriel García Márquez (Nobel award)
I love it, because I like Franz Kafka
(The metamorphosis)
If you dont know him take this short story for a “step in”.
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Ok I promise to at least attempt to read those books
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This weekend will be different for many of us.
For me : All flea markets have been cancelled.
Its OK, of course!
What will I do?
I will cook!
Now I am thinking about what I will create!
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Oh! I got a new order now!
Have to clean the windows downstairs.
Have to do that before sun shines on them.
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Well, as we know well, the orders must be followed
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Not in quarantine now.
But we have taken some preventive measures:
A bottle of disinfection liquid positioned in the entrance.
Public transports only if there is a REAL need.
All supermarkets are near by.
No shortages there.
Beer is stored in the basement.
ALL FINE!
Enjoy the weekend and take care and stay in GOOD HEALTH
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Well this weekend this scientist did the maths. In the town of 60k people there is a statistical average of 8 people infected of which about 4 of them don’t know it. So the probability this weekend of encountering is very slim.
But it doubles every 6 days on average so the risks go up and up. Those 4 people infect 12 people who then are infectious a few days later…
Those countries who are shutting everything down now though need to understand people need a good quality of life or they get to a point they don’t care any more. Here in the UK they get that fact, other places, well… they’ll be getting a 2nd wave of issues in about 2 months from now as people never-infected emerge wanting to live love life. Then either those countries just delayed the issue or they shoot them.
So this weekend we’re getting garden furniture to be both isolated and outdoors to have good physical and mental health. Researching portable projectors too. Could be a summer of camping and walking! Ultraviolet sunshine is a great sanitiser.
Technology can do its public duty too.
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I was taking a look at Wiki!
The famous toilet paper and the panic buying of it.
Do you know that there is difference in usage from country to country
The Germans are folding it mostly, while the US-Americans are crumpling it.
In UK, FR the usage is folding or crumpling.
It never came me in mind crumpling it.
But no more details! 
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That’s an interesting find lol
So today my sons school announced they were closing until the end of the month. His April vacation will now be moved to this extended time off…great, just ruined my vacation plans to see my parents. But even worse is that I had to go buy more groceries for the house since the kiddo will be home all day for the rest of the month.
Let me tell you it was a nightmare in walmart, so many people shopping to stock up for their kids being home too. Almost all the shelves were empty of basic rice/noodles/pasta that I ended up buying more expensive stuff because all the cheap products were gone. Sure i could have gone to a different store, but walmart has the best prices on meat and more specifically their ground beef. What a crazy hectic day, I cant already wait for them to go back to school
Take it easy.
We all are in the same situation.
Fortunately many super markets are here nearby (ca 10 minutes walking)
After the first panic buyings all is in stock now again.
Enjoy the Sunday!
The last time similar thing happened they rotated the terms with time-off, so what was spring break then term then summer break became combined all-breaks then a later term. It solves the problem of basically missing a whole academic year. It is also historically one of the reasons why there’s a total of about 3 months of breaks so for a pandemic you can swap breaks with terms and make a 3 month pandemic break which does not cause the academic year to slip a year.
To allow for a reduced workforce to not then have to care for kids, expect “summer camps” outdoors to control infection in the warmer weather.
The reason they say only closed til April is to keep the panic generating engine under control. Too many overreact.
The kids will love all this!
There are no measures taken from UK administration to fight the virus.
While other countries are going into more and more restriction. UK seems to be an immune island.
I dont understand.
The Chief Medical Officer (CMO) has explained it, science.
Politicians get shouted at to do something so they basically get forced to ignore science and do something for doing something’s sake.
Here’s the problem:
- there is no vaccine,
- so once the virus is uncontrolled (once tracing those infected stopped working) everyone is going to get infected (about 80% as some will get lucky, live in small communities, etc)
- so for most people it is not an issue of if they get infected, but when they get infected
- most people are too young to have observed how panic actually runs it course. People over-react continually.
- the 1st phase is an overreaction, panic buying, and over-isolation (now)
- then 2nd phase is people get cabin crazy stuck in isolation and then get cavalier irresponsible (in about a month from now on average typically). You’ll hear people saying “this is not living, don’t care if get virus, get it over with it, do your worse” type feelings.
- right now in many countries you’re talking about 0.2% of population infected, but it doubles weekly so in a month’s time there’s 6% infected, two months it is everywhere.
- so when the cabin fever over-reacting people emerge, they will be exposing themselves to more infected in the future. This is called the 2nd wave.
- So there is a sweetspot of when to begin a more overt isolation. It will be soon. But not yet. What the UK has been doing is slowing infection by telling people scientific based advice. Not being all Italian and going around kissing each other and smoking (touching face). Or being a religious type going to religious shrines (Iran).
- Do what science says, the peak will be at different times in different countries. My finger in air is peak in UK is in about 4 weeks from now. It already has peaked in China.
Wash your hands!
The UK economy will get some upsides later. After the peak in UK, there will be a travel ban to those countries still more infected than UK so people won’t be allowed back in UK if they leave. So the UK will have more people staying within UK. The UK is a net tourist exporter. More UK people go overseas on holiday than foreigners visit UK. So UK sends money overseas. So instead people can go on holiday within UK.
But some say this others that 
Quite insecure and difficult to follow for inexperienced.
I was reading in a portuguese newspaper, that the run another tactic in UK.
“herd immunity”
I am not a virologist.
I dont know if this is good or not.
Science.
This reads as callous but it is scientifically the way to cause fewest deaths. The death rate in the elderly is higher for this infection, this is rare virus as it is usually bad for both very young and old, this one is the old more proportionately.
So the plan is, while no vaccine, to not isolate young people from each other other, but isolate young people from old people. The young then infect each other but only have a non-medical mild illness (so not overload shared medical services) and become immune first and earlier, they then stop causing the virus to spread, and so the older people encounter it far less.
So the old are going to be isolated first, for a long period, til herd immunity later in the year. As the older will suffer if isolated too long, the trigger is being watched closely of when, not too early nor too late. Soon though.
This is the opposite of selfishness, it is mass best used of shared fixed capacity services.
There is a deliberate calculated science based plan.
The Government is releasing figures 2 days after actual so it can take steps before the over-reacting panic. I suspect everyone is expecting to visit Grandma on Mother’s Day next Sunday in UK then Gov tells people to not see Grandma for 4 weeks while they get ill then immune.
Just stopping doing that, it is not scientific facts.
Yes it can, pre-peak you don’t tell people to not visit Grandma, so to no cause a loneliness epidemic worse than the virus. Nearer the peak you tell people to avoid older people. There will be instructions to shop and cook and drop off meals at elderly people, close old people’s homes, stop visitors, and use basically shaming techniques. So you cannot 100% isolate but you can 95% isolate to avoid the worst scenario.