Coronavirus (OLD) - Page 346

**Chris** · 20-08-2020, 17:04

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Originally Posted by RichardCoulter

Are they on loan or can they keep them?

It’s a loaner.

The pupil contract (I do solemnly swear that this device will be returned to school in pristine condition when I leave, ha ha ha) was circulated last week, along with a menu of parts that might break, and the charge for repairing them. The devices have started coming home this week (youngest has just got hers) and they have LEA asset numbers on the bottom. The startup screen also states that it’s a “managed device”. She doesn’t care, because they haven’t blocked Youtube

So our LEA’s Covid resilience plan is well underway - Chromebooks as of now replace handwritten homework, and a lot of handwritten class work as well. It won’t be long before kids all forget how to write.

At least it’ll be easier if her class is forced to self-isolate at any point.

1andrew1 · 20-08-2020, 17:36

Some more changes to the quarantine list:

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UK tourists will no longer need to quarantine after holidaying in Portugal, but travellers returning from Croatia will now have to self-isolate.

Transport Secretary Grant Shapps said people will need to self-isolate for 14 days on return from Croatia, Austria and Trinidad and Tobago.

The changes apply to anyone arriving after 04:00 BST on Saturday.

Meanwhile, the Scottish government has added Switzerland to the lists of countries on the quarantine list.

https://www.cableforum.uk/board/show...0#post36047160

Pierre · 24-08-2020, 21:49

The daily infection has remained pretty steady since late June 800 < 1000 ( apart from 1 week).

The daily hospital admin rate is 70 - 90, 280 admins a day for heart attacks........

Daily death rate....4.....about the same as road deaths..........

Can we all agree to just get on with it and not being scared of our shadow.

Carth · 24-08-2020, 23:05

Been shift work, home in time to catch a little of the main news . .

4 more deaths today from Covid 19

then struck by the absurdity of:

. . . the sentence below it which read similar to* "deaths under any circumstance within 28 days of a positive Covid 19 test"

Just pointless and a waste of time reporting those figures, keeps the statisticians happy I guess

*can't recall exact wording

pip08456 · 25-08-2020, 00:12

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Originally Posted by Carth

Been shift work, home in time to catch a little of the main news . .

4 more deaths today from Covid 19

then struck by the absurdity of:

. . . the sentence below it which read similar to* "deaths under any circumstance within 28 days of a positive Covid 19 test"

Just pointless and a waste of time reporting those figures, keeps the statisticians happy I guess

*can't recall exact wording

Probably 4 road deaths Pierre mentions.

**Hugh** · 25-08-2020, 00:29

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Originally Posted by Pierre

The daily infection has remained pretty steady since late June 800 < 1000 ( apart from 1 week).

The daily hospital admin rate is 70 - 90, 280 admins a day for heart attacks........

Daily death rate....4.....about the same as road deaths..........

Can we all agree to just get on with it and not being scared of our shadow.

Yes, but heart attacks and road deaths aren’t infectious....

If you (well, me anyway) visit someone’s house, you’re unlikely to give them a heart attack or a road death..

**Paul** · 25-08-2020, 00:48

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Originally Posted by Hugh

If you (well, me anyway) visit someone’s house, you’re unlikely to give them a heart attack.

Depends on who I visit ..

Carth · 25-08-2020, 02:57

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Originally Posted by Hugh

Yes, but heart attacks and road deaths aren’t infectious....

If you (well, me anyway) visit someone’s house, you’re unlikely to give them a heart attack or a road death..

It's not about being infectious or not, it's about the reporting of Covid deaths.

If I had flu and got knocked down by a bus, would flu be the cause of death?

If I had asthma and was fatally stabbed during a mugging, would asthma be what killed me?

If I had asymptomatic covid 19, but got electrocuted by bad wiring in my guitar amp, I'd be reported as a Covid death . .

Sephiroth · 25-08-2020, 08:58

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Originally Posted by Carth

It's not about being infectious or not, it's about the reporting of Covid deaths.

If I had flu and got knocked down by a bus, would flu be the cause of death?

If I had asthma and was fatally stabbed during a mugging, would asthma be what killed me?

If I had asymptomatic covid 19, but got electrocuted by bad wiring in my guitar amp, I'd be reported as a Covid death . .

I wish I could follow my own advice! It's almost pointless trying to argue with Hugh's obtuse observations.

papa smurf · 25-08-2020, 09:02

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Originally Posted by Hugh

Yes, but heart attacks and road deaths aren’t infectious....

If you (well, me anyway) visit someone’s house, you’re unlikely to give them a heart attack or a road death..

With that face

**Maggy** · 25-08-2020, 09:08

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Originally Posted by Pierre

The daily infection has remained pretty steady since late June 800 < 1000 ( apart from 1 week).

The daily hospital admin rate is 70 - 90, 280 admins a day for heart attacks........

Daily death rate....4.....about the same as road deaths..........

Can we all agree to just get on with it and not being scared of our shadow.

Yes let's just become blase about the whole Covid thing..

**Chris** · 25-08-2020, 09:43

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Originally Posted by Pierre

The daily infection has remained pretty steady since late June 800 < 1000 ( apart from 1 week).

The daily hospital admin rate is 70 - 90, 280 admins a day for heart attacks........

Daily death rate....4.....about the same as road deaths..........

Can we all agree to just get on with it and not being scared of our shadow.

4 road deaths per day with the roads operating normally, millions of vehicle movements per week, is hardly comparable with the restrictions that have been necessary to get Covid transmission down to its present level.

**Damien** · 25-08-2020, 10:15

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Originally Posted by Pierre

The daily infection has remained pretty steady since late June 800 < 1000 ( apart from 1 week).

The daily hospital admin rate is 70 - 90, 280 admins a day for heart attacks........

Daily death rate....4.....about the same as road deaths..........

Can we all agree to just get on with it and not being scared of our shadow.

But these deaths are so low because the peak of the pandemic is past and is precisely why we felt safer to slowly open up again. At the peak we were seeing deaths of over 1000.

Anyway I think for now we should open up and try to 'live with the virus' but keep an eye on cases to ensure we don't see what we saw in April.

papa smurf · 25-08-2020, 10:38

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Originally Posted by Chris

4 road deaths per day with the roads operating normally, millions of vehicle movements per week, is hardly comparable with the restrictions that have been necessary to get Covid transmission down to its present level.

how many road deaths would there be without,driving standards,the highway code ,seat belts ,air bags , car safety standards.......... it took a lot of time and effort to get road deaths down to today's low levels.

**Chris** · 25-08-2020, 10:44

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Originally Posted by papa smurf

how many road deaths would there be without,driving standards,the highway code ,seat belts ,air bags , car safety standards.......... it took a lot of time and effort to get road deaths down to today's low levels.

So to keep Covid deaths at the present rate you’re saying we should keep the safety standards that have been imposed on people’s pedestrian activity - social distancing, face masks etc?