Coronavirus: General discussion (see opening post for rules)

[caffrey]

I was going to say something along those lines..

[Ditto]

It did start with 'all your staff' before slipping in 'leaders and teachers'. Old habits! The gratitude is to all those involved.

[HarryMonkey]

On the lighter side of things ...

 

[6Foot2]

Link: https://twitter.com/_schuermann/status/1239294777452974080 [Picture Tweet]

 

A supermarket in Denmark got tired of people hoarding hand sanitizer, so came up with their own way of stopping it.

 

1 bottle kr40 (€5.50)

2 bottles kr1000 (€134.00) each bottle.

 

Hoarding stopped!

 

[elsiegee40]

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[mikeprice]

French Minister of Youth and Sports, Roxana Maracineanu, has said that the Tour de France could take place but behind closed doors

 

 

one of the dumbest things I have heard anyone say about this virus situation - and I am including Trumps utterings

 

The most obvious thing is that there are no doors to close - it is held on normal roads through villages, towns etc etc

 

They could trim it down massively - but even with just the riders and essential support people it would still be around 1000 people moving around the country - and that is without looking at how many peopole will tryto watch anyway

 

 

the more cynical have suggested that, as a lot of the riders seems to be on Salbutamol for their Asthma - then they are in a vulnerable group and therefore should be staying at home!!!

[caffrey]

Helping out staff as best as I can and I got this in an email

 

Nice to have such support, especially as I am just getting used to all this material.

 

You are an asset to the school.

 

I'm having a rough day and that was nice

[6Foot2]

Helping out staff as best as I can and I got this in an email

 

Nice to have such support, especially as I am just getting used to all this material.

 

You are an asset to the school.

 

I'm having a rough day and that was nice

 

On the flip side I have found out about an E-Mail sent to another member of staff that complains about me (I won't reproduce it here)

 

I have been trying to help the parent for two days. Only when he sent in the E-mail to complain did he make it clear that he wanted a username and a password for his child's Show My Homework, not Google Suite (the address he was sending to)

 

[Dos_Box]

An interesting video about why some planes are still flying (from a pilot). @ZeroHour and I were having a discussion about this the other day trying to figure out why there were still passenger flights operating:

 

[elsiegee40]

[FishCustard]

UK has enough intensive care units for coronavirus, expert predicts

 

This from the same team that is advising the Government and produced the initial modelling (Neil Ferguson et al. @ Imperial).

[vikpaw]

TL: DR the thread, so not sure if this has been posted yet but it’s great.

@john tells me @robk and @GrumbleDook will love this

 

CoronaVirus Rhapsody

 

Edited April 5, 2020 by vikpaw

[LeMarchand]

Bonus Daughter #2, the one that lives with us (still...) has a birthday tomorrow. BD #1, who lives in a nearby city, was on self-imposed self isolation (all the better to protect Precious Grandson) last week - to the extent of please leave the stuff I asked you to pick up on the doorstep. However it seems that birthdays trump lockdown. If she gets fined, i'll bet it won't be her that pays it, either.

 

Does anyone else feel that things are getting like Soviet Russia? Queues for food and restricted travel/police checkpoints (mainly because of people like BD1); we just need to be issued with papers...

[vikpaw]

Toilet Papers hopefully ...

[hardtailstar]

On the flip side I have found out about an E-Mail sent to another member of staff that complains about me (I won't reproduce it here)

 

I have been trying to help the parent for two days. Only when he sent in the E-mail to complain did he make it clear that he wanted a username and a password for his child's Show My Homework, not Google Suite (the address he was sending to)

 

 

Ah good old parents being clear about what they want! had many emails like that this week. Many thinking that one logon is for everything

[vikpaw]

Ah good old parents being clear about what they want! had many emails like that this week. Many thinking that one logon is for everything

 

Ah, the old SSO parent.

[6Foot2]

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[mikeprice]

An interesting video about why some planes are still flying (from a pilot). @ZeroHour and I were having a discussion about this the other day trying to figure out why there were still passenger flights operating:

 

 

The skies are a lot quieter

Liverpool airport has pretty much shutdown and F24 oftenb shows naff all over the North West

 

However the route from the USA to Hawaii seems as busy as ever

can't see that causing any problems

 

Dunno if it is just that there are less planes overall - but it is easy to spot a fair number of private jets winging around

presumably nurses going to work:rolleyes:

[mikeprice]

Went out at 8pm to do the clapping the NHS people thing

 

could hear a load of people in the road over the wall (2 cul-de-sacs back to back) - but only us in our road

after a short while the people opposite came out as well - they were felling embarassed and didn;t want to be the only ones

 

Maybe next time more will come out

 

 

actually we could hear lots of clapping from all round - just not many in this road!!!

[elsiegee40]

Went out at 8pm to do the clapping the NHS people thing

 

could hear a load of people in the road over the wall (2 cul-de-sacs back to back) - but only us in our road

after a short while the people opposite came out as well - they were felling embarassed and didn;t want to be the only ones

 

Maybe next time more will come out

 

 

actually we could hear lots of clapping from all round - just not many in this road!!!

 

Isn’t this a very British response?

 

Plenty out in our road tonight.

[mikeprice]

Isn’t this a very British response?

 

Plenty out in our road tonight.

 

Yup - both the clapping and the being embarrassed about it!

 

Was going to film it and send it to wife's son. He used to work in the operating theatres at the local hospital but has recently moved to the clinical Education dept.

Now he is back on 6 day week and shifts on ICU as ventilators was his main area of expertise - especially with kids

[smurfomatic]

Lots of applause in my area (though I could only see one bloke) plus car horns and a couple of fireworks, really uplifting.

[Ditto]

Good turn out here. New neighbour is ENT surgeon and several neighbours have daughters who are NHS staff. Quite poignant...

[witch]

Pretty good here too - could hear loads of people clapping and there were fireworks!

[StevieM]

I didn't know this clapping the NHS was even a thing. Heard some fireworks going off around 8, so that was probably why. I thought it was just scally kids.

 

While I was walking to the shop earlier today, I noticed quite a few kids had drawn pictures of rainbows and stuck them in their windows. Is this a thing, too?