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kennysarmy

kennysarmy

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Anyone else failing to get motivated on some days?

 

Problem is it's Easter Break - so the queries from staff and students have been very few and far between this week.

 

I went in yesterday as I'm still working on the new school project ( http://www.edugeek.net/forums/behind-red-door/196817-so-im-going-involved-new-school-project-6.html ) & also took the opportunity to do a few Windows Updates and Server reboots.

 

Today I'm at home...

hardtailstar

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Problem is it's Easter Break - so the queries from staff and students have been very few and far between this week.

 

I went in yesterday as I'm still working on the new school project ( http://www.edugeek.net/forums/behind-red-door/196817-so-im-going-involved-new-school-project-6.html ) & also took the opportunity to do a few Windows Updates and Server reboots.

 

Today I'm at home...

 

Not for us! Some days before the Easter holiday I didn't have any motivation. but then I think that's because I knew that some staff were out exercising in the middle of the day when supposed to be working!

6Foot2

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Link: Coronavirus: Farmers herd flock of sheep to spell out tribute to NHS workers [The Independent]

 

 

A farming family have herded a flock of 150 sheep to make a tribute to NHS workers who are treating coronavirus patients which could be seen on a hillside for miles around.

 

The effort, which was timed to coincide with the fourth “Clap For Our Carers” on Thursday, took an entire family three attempts to herd the flock to spell “NHS” on the hillside in Luss in Argyll & Bute, Scotland.

 

Sixty-six-year-old Bobby Lennox drove a quad bike to produce the shape of the three letters, while his granddaughter Katie Nicholson followed behind with buckets of sheep feed which the animals stopped to eat.

 

“We feed the sheep every morning and they come and follow behind the quad bike,” Kay Wilson, Mr Lennox’s daughter, said.

 

“We tried different angles and were third time lucky.”

 

Ms Wilson said that yesterday was the last chance they had to complete the tribute because the sheep would soon be off the hill and back in sheds for lambing.

 

She added: “We’re out every Thursday clapping for the NHS and nobody can hear us so we wanted people to do something people in the area could see.”

 

The tribute was one example of efforts across the UK to raise spirits during the Covid-19 pandemic this week by showing gratitude to key workers in the NHS...

elsiegee40

elsiegee40

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National Police Chiefs’ Council/College of Policing links:

 

What constitutes a reasonable excuse to leave the place where you live

https://www.college.police.uk/What-we-do/COVID-19/Documents/What-constitutes-a-reasonable-excuse.pdf

 

Engage, Explain, Encourage, Enforce – applying the four ‘E’s:

https://www.college.police.uk/What-we-do/COVID-19/Documents/Engage-Explain-Encourage-Enforce-guidance.pdf

 

Understanding the law

https://www.college.police.uk/What-we-do/COVID-19/understanding-the-law/Pages/default.aspx

 

:mod: MOD NOTE: Post provided for information, not discussion :mod:

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Andrew_C

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What constitutes a reasonable excuse to leave the place where you live

 

What a shame that information is only now being disseminated. People (not just plod) should have been told that weeks ago.

elsiegee40

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What a shame that information is only now being disseminated. People (not just plod) should have been told that weeks ago.

 

:mod: While I agree that the Police Chiefs could probably have got this information together a little quicker, some of it has come out of learning on the go what the new laws mean.

 

This concludes the discussion surrounding the timing of the announcement. Any attempt to continue it will be deleted.

 

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Andycat

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A friend has just posted this, his wife is a nurse so he got tested:

 

"Today, I have tested Positive for Covid-19.

 

However, I haven't had a bad cough. I haven't had a temperature. I haven't had any shortness of breath.

 

I've had a mildly sore throat, itchy eyes, a bit of a headache, and one day I felt a bit queasy. To be honest, I thought it may have been slight hayfever. If my company was still open, I'd have 100% been going to work every day, because I feel fine.

 

How many lucky a******s like me could be out there, not realising they have Coronavirus, but still going about their daily lives? Still visiting friends and family? Still going to the shops (I would have probably gone to get some DIY stuff today, as I'm part-way through a patio project...)?

 

What I'm trying to say, is that the only way to stop this virus is to stay at home. You don't know who has the virus, as they're probably not going to be coughing everywhere, sweating profusely, and rasping for breath in the supermarket aisles. I certainly wasn't."

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kennysarmy

kennysarmy

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A friend has just posted this, his wife is a nurse so he got tested:

 

"Today, I have tested Positive for Covid-19.

 

However, I haven't had a bad cough. I haven't had a temperature. I haven't had any shortness of breath.

 

I've had a mildly sore throat, itchy eyes, a bit of a headache, and one day I felt a bit queasy. To be honest, I thought it may have been slight hayfever. If my company was still open, I'd have 100% been going to work every day, because I feel fine.

 

How many lucky a******s like me could be out there, not realising they have Coronavirus, but still going about their daily lives? Still visiting friends and family? Still going to the shops (I would have probably gone to get some DIY stuff today, as I'm part-way through a patio project...)?

 

What I'm trying to say, is that the only way to stop this virus is to stay at home. You don't know who has the virus, as they're probably not going to be coughing everywhere, sweating profusely, and rasping for breath in the supermarket aisles. I certainly wasn't."

From here:

 

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/five-things-you-need-to-know-about-coronavirus-today/ar-BB12U5IZ?ocid=spartandhp

 

Researchers estimate that 18% of infected people never developed any.

Ketlane

Ketlane

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60% of the crew on Theodore Roosevelt who tested positive were asymptomatic. That compares with 18% of the much less healthy, much older passengers on Diamond Princess.

Of the deaths analysed last week in UK, 91% had co-morbidities and they averaged 2.7 co-morbidities each.

So different demographics are very differently at risk.

crc-ict

crc-ict

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A friend has just posted this, his wife is a nurse so he got tested:

 

"Today, I have tested Positive for Covid-19.

 

However, I haven't had a bad cough. I haven't had a temperature. I haven't had any shortness of breath.

 

I've had a mildly sore throat, itchy eyes, a bit of a headache, and one day I felt a bit queasy. To be honest, I thought it may have been slight hayfever. If my company was still open, I'd have 100% been going to work every day, because I feel fine.

 

How many lucky a******s like me could be out there, not realising they have Coronavirus, but still going about their daily lives? Still visiting friends and family? Still going to the shops (I would have probably gone to get some DIY stuff today, as I'm part-way through a patio project...)?

 

What I'm trying to say, is that the only way to stop this virus is to stay at home. You don't know who has the virus, as they're probably not going to be coughing everywhere, sweating profusely, and rasping for breath in the supermarket aisles. I certainly wasn't."

 

The question that urgently needs to be answered from things like is whether people who are carrying the virus asymptomatically can pass it on, and by what means.

mikeprice

mikeprice

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I needed some stuff from the local bike shop today - after getting a puncture yesterday

 

Went there and he is STILL totally snowed under - apparently he is fixing about 50 bikes a day and people are still buying bikes at an unprecedented rate

and on top of that some people was bespoke bikes building from scratch

 

and on top of that he has had to furlough his normal 2 workers as the workshop is so small that it would be difficult to keep 2 feet apart - never mind 2 metres

 

 

Which is good - hopefully loads of people will have a great incentive to start cycling to work and stuff

 

OK - a lot of bikes will be in sheds - but hopefully a lot will keep being used and the authorities will have an incentive to improve the infrastructure for bikes

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