Op cancelled (40 mins ago).....'a member of staff has tested positive for Covid19'.
Groan.
Groan.
New lockdown in sight
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Yes and no.Pizzer
It's not like I need urgent attention and I can just pick up where I left off work wise. I'd like to be able to tie my shoelaces though....
notchy has his head stuck in the sand.
Earlier lock down reducing the impact of corona?
>titter<
notchy has been banging on about the lockdown being too late for months now.
Just another stick to beat the tories with.
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My friend's boy has been quarantined without being tested because his teacher tested positive.
However they told them that the rest of the family can go by as normal.
That tells us how stupid this circus has become.
If there was a real risk they would test the boy and quarantine the whole family.
Shambolic.
However they told them that the rest of the family can go by as normal.
That tells us how stupid this circus has become.
If there was a real risk they would test the boy and quarantine the whole family.
Shambolic.
Do we know what percentage of tests are positive?
Say they could test everyone in the country today and 10% everywhere were positive. What would they do then?
Or 20%, or 50%?
Say they could test everyone in the country today and 10% everywhere were positive. What would they do then?
Or 20%, or 50%?
I wonder if we'll learn any more from this 'virus outbreak' than we did from the misnamed 'Spanish flu' when information was far less available?
How much is true and how much is 'fake news' in the digital age?
Who stands to gain and who will lose?
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EddieM
Has "Spanish 'Flu" been proven to be an influenza strain? Virology wasn't very advanced at the time.
Edit: Seemingly, yes is the answer.
Edit: Seemingly, yes is the answer.
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Yes, the % positive metric is available somewhere. It's useful for a couple of different measures.
If you could instantly identify everyone in the country who had Covid-19 then you could isolate them and the disease would stop dead.
Of course you can't do it instantly, you can't make everyone take the test, you can't detect early infections and the tests aren't perfect. Nor would everyone isolate, nor are all isolations perfect. Mass screening is really complicated.
Right now the estimate is that there's roughly 20 cases per 100,000 people. Or 0.02%.
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Several years ago, viable samples were obtained by digging up graves in the permafrost in Siberia, Alaska and Antarctic. Possibly in other places too. Reputedly for germ warfare research. Since then, global warming has melted many of the earth's cold places. Alpine glaciers I have seen, and walked on land where no man has ever walked before.
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Is that bad or good?
So - 13,000 in the whole country. How many are ill?
OR
If like Scotland it was 2.5% - 1,625,000. How many are ill?
Do the numbers mean anything?
Is testing only done where there are people who are already ill?
Pretty much (apart from a bit of researching / fishing into asymptomatics).
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