Coronavirus... thoughts ..

[amethyst]

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We wont get back to normality for a very long time,the way I look at it take one day at a time,forget about plans six month down the line,I only go out shopping once a week never go out for a walk,get plenty of exercise walking up and down the stairs thankfully got a nice garden to relax and enjoy the plants in colour the birds that come and feed it's lifts your spirits

[beccabear67]

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Seems to be mostly bad news from the U.S. and England these days unfortunately. Canada and Australia seem to be doing okay overall from what I can tell with a couple of particularly bad areas in each. If anyone had been well prepared they would at least have had 100% testing early on for all nursing homes and their employees.

Had trouble getting flour here and had to get a much bigger bag than normal.

[Zincubus]

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My son lives in Florida

The message there is all about social distancing ... don’t go socialising in parks / countryside etc ... yet yesterday there were around 40,000 ( forty THOUSAND) logged at a nearby beach !!


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[amethyst]

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The couple behind us has a little girl not more than 4yrs the grand parents have turned up every Sunday since lockdown because their out in their garden,Sunday just gone they were there again,then later on they had another guy with his 2 girls and they were not keeping their distance

[amethyst]

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Corona virus is spreading rapidly all around the world, I have canceled my UK trip that was scheduled for the next month.

Come out of lockdown to soon and we will have the second wave which we dont want

[Zincubus]

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Hyo-Jick Choi, a biomedical engineer and professor at the University of Alberta in Canada, says he has a potential solution: A mask that can kill harmful pathogens, rather than just block them. The secret ingredient is table salt.

Viruses and other pathogens travel either through the air; in droplets such as saliva or phlegm from coughing, sneezing, speaking, or breathing; or on surfaces.

"The coronavirus-carrying droplets, expelled from coughing, sneezing, speaking or breathing, can stay on the surface of the masks," Choi told Business Insider. "The biggest technical challenge of the current surgical mask and n95 respirator is that they cannot kill the virus sitting on their surface, which increases the chance of the contact transmission."

But when a virus-carrying droplet encounters a mask coated in Choi's salt solution, he says, it begins to absorb the salt. Then once the liquid evaporates, all that remains is the virus and the crystallized salt — which slices through the virus, neutralizing it.


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[tex]

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Hyo-Jick Choi, a biomedical engineer and professor at the University of Alberta in Canada, says he has a potential solution: A mask that can kill harmful pathogens, rather than just block them. The secret ingredient is table salt.

Viruses and other pathogens travel either through the air; in droplets such as saliva or phlegm from coughing, sneezing, speaking, or breathing; or on surfaces.

"The coronavirus-carrying droplets, expelled from coughing, sneezing, speaking or breathing, can stay on the surface of the masks," Choi told Business Insider. "The biggest technical challenge of the current surgical mask and n95 respirator is that they cannot kill the virus sitting on their surface, which increases the chance of the contact transmission."

But when a virus-carrying droplet encounters a mask coated in Choi's salt solution, he says, it begins to absorb the salt. Then once the liquid evaporates, all that remains is the virus and the crystallized salt — which slices through the virus, neutralizing it.


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...Interesting to see if this is developed further

[tex]

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Corona virus is spreading rapidly all around the world, I have canceled my UK trip that was scheduled for the next month.

Such a shame, i just received a refund from Jet2 for my cancelled trip to Cyprus...on the positive side it's two grand in my bank account

[amethyst]

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Such a shame, i just received a refund from Jet2 for my cancelled trip to Cyprus...on the positive side it's two grand in my bank account

Use the money for a smart TV lol

[amethyst]

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Lockdown until June.Quite a few crashes involving bald tyres and essential journeys,I mean with no MOT until Oct more will be caught

[tex]

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Lockdown until June.Quite a few crashes involving bald tyres and essential journeys,I mean with no MOT until Oct more will be caught

What do you mean "no MOT until october?

[Zincubus]

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What do you mean "no MOT until october?

I’m really not sure ... mine is booked in for mini service and MOT for next Tuesday


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[tex]

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So Boris is expected to ease lockdown measures on sunday, he is predicted to follow what Wales are now doing with the re-opening of garden centres and recycling centres and unlimited outdoor exercise periods.

[amethyst]

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So Boris is expected to ease lockdown measures on sunday, he is predicted to follow what Wales are now doing with the re-opening of garden centres and recycling centres and unlimited outdoor exercise periods.

The daily deaths are still alarming I mean we dont want a second bout of this

[Zincubus]

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My Little Town ( Simon and Garfunkel) is 38th in the list of confirmed cases - out of about 450 uk towns and cities


https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/regi...ltlas&map=rate


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