If find a bottle of fizz and BBC 6 music goes down quite well on a Friday night. I recommend Tom Ravenscroft at 9pm, Its Iggy Pop before 9 which is go...
Yes there are some hospices just for palliative care, but many double up as long term care homes. Also there is a grey area around which patient is a ...
The're interchangeable around hear. The're all heading in the same direction and the same point about the staff holds. Yes, I'm British, I don't see t...
The staff in the care home are an issue, they could be lumped into the group of healthcare workers. They work in a healthcare community, or a hospital...
I was listening to a representative of the main ventilator manufacturing company, which makes many of the ventilators which are purchased in the world...
Could be, Covid19 has been matched to a virus found in Pangolins. The trade in Pangolin scales for Chinese medicine has increased massively over the l...
I have found a hole in your argument, I hope you don't mind. But in the UK, it is the elephant in the room. If he does go to hospice care, he will kil...
I am sure we can learn to adapt and prepair for such epidemics, but as yet we are sorely ill prepared. Hopefully there will be much more effort put in...
I took a look and the statisticians are suggesting that the mortality due to heart disease is around 650,000 per year, https://www.cdc.gov/heartdiseas...
we could try swilling the virus out of the mouth and into the stomach with an alcohol solution every ten minutes. In fact there are some good brands o...
I think that the economy will go into a deep recession in the UK immediately, simply due to the lack of trade in travel, events and hospitality and it...
They may have known this, but that it was already to late, they were between a rock and a hard place. Johnson's economic advisors would have informed ...
Yes, I agree, all these notions they had about protecting the economy will backfire. The only way to protect it would have been to ban flights in Dece...
I hear you, but I differ in my reading of the situation in No10. When I described the political reaction to Johnson's strategy, I was not supporting i...
I heard that the toilet paper craze started in Australia, where a newspaper staged a scene of empty shelves. In fact they had taken the toilet paper o...
There is a row in the UK about the government's explicitly stated strategy of doing little in the way of interventions, with the aim of establishing a...
Yes, I agree that he's concerned, about the pandemic, not about his troops though, they are off the radar for now. Oh and also any US citizens in vuln...
He disrespects his office when he ignores the genuine concerns of US citizens in his actions. I already told you this and you ignored it. I'll ask you...
I think it's time we brought NOS4A2 in from the cold. He would get so much more out of these discussions if he were in the free world(free thinking wo...
See I was right Trump has got the virus, he was living it up with Bolsanaro the other day, who was diagnosed yesterday. Off with his head. Trump can't...
And should Trump have banned all flights from Europe today, without consulting anyone in Europe? The record drops in shares in response to his knee je...
Is Trump going to pull the US troops out of the Middle East and Asia? He should do as he will need them on the ground when the chaos starts. Or is he ...
Currently there are no restrictions for any EU citizen coming into the UK. No checks, no tests. Also the UK is effectively an EU member until 31 Decem...
The UK doesn't have any flight restrictions. Also if you fly in from an infected area, you are not checked, or tested. There is simply a notice asking...
Yes a good read and I don't reject any of the theory. But I was listening to a virologist yesterday who said that Covid19 matches to a remarkable degr...
I think the unpredictable effects would be due to the degree of chaos and the efforts of vigilante groups to survive. So a large degree of chaos might...
It is remarkable how quickly it has spread across the world. My nearest documented case is in Ipswich about 30 miles away, but I expect there are peop...
They will go to a war footing, prices would be fixed to a degree and there would be some means of rationing. For example in Italy yesterday, there wer...
I agree with this, I don't think that western governments were prepared for such an outbreak. Appropriate contingency plans had not been developed and...
I know, there are many businesses which are already on the edge, prior to the effect of the virus. I don't expect economic collapse though, government...
financial experts are saying that if there are economic effects, they will bounce back after the epidemic, as the crisis is not a structural one withi...
All he needs to do as President is show leadership, hold press conferences in which he spells out the situation, the risks and what needs to be done, ...
I mentioned the common cold because an effective vaccine has not be found to prevent it. So the it might be the same for Coronavirus. I'll be fine by ...
Most predictions are that it will be at least 18 months before a vaccine is being administered. The tsunami will have come and gone well before that. ...
I agree, but I expect this will happen anyway in a couple of months from now. The UK government is already preparing financial help including grants t...
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