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- Bluejam3
F1 team helps build new UK breathing aid for Covid-19 patients
Device developed in 10 days by medics and engineers will help avoid need for full ventilation
- Krassy4
- Yes, have this conundrum everytime I need to seperate dog bags atm.webazoot
- Tha's no conundrum, you sick bastard - stop putting your dogs in bags!
#petaOutrageNairn - #MAGA for lifeutopian
- i was in this exact position last week, i dipped my fingers in the water where the green onions were sitting instead. then i spread some Purrell on my hands.Bennn
- My black nitrile gloves are rubbery enough I can open the bags with no problem. This woman has gloves made of the same material as the bag, hahaelahon
- grafician1
"Johnson & Johnson (JNJ) Announces a Lead Vaccine Candidate for COVID-19"
"The Company expects to initiate human clinical studies of its lead vaccine candidate at the latest by September 2020 and anticipates the first batches of a COVID-19 vaccine could be available for emergency use authorization in early 2021, a substantially accelerated timeframe in comparison to the typical vaccine development process."
- Krassy1
Germany handling this outbreak remarkably well.
Any German QBNrs care to share what's the approach in Germany?
- I think their government was much more prepared than others & people obey rules.Beeswax
- Well, for one thing, the national health care system here is robust. For another, testing was done SK-style. And the government was pretty quick to react ...Continuity
- ... when they saw what was happening in Italy. And yeah, people obey the rules, here, for the most part. You should see the dirty looks I get from some GermansContinuity
- ... when I cross the street on a red light.Continuity
- One interesting thing I read this morning is that DE has twice as many free/available ICU beds as Italy has in total (free or taken).Continuity
- Gives you a sense of the robust nature of the health care system, as well as the overall level of preparedness.Continuity
- @Continuity thank you for the info. What's "SK-style?"Krassy
- South Korea-style. Testing is/was a big deal here, in order to capture more accurate data, and to make more informed decisions.Continuity
- It's obviously not perfect: people are still falling ill, and some people are dying. But, hopefully, the measures help bring things under control.Continuity
- Testing is so crucial!Krassy
- I read somewhere that Germany is transporting French people in to treat them !Krassy
- Yup. There are enough free beds here that DE is taking patients from France and, I think, Spain and Italy.Continuity
- And what is the treatment? The death rate is so low in DE. Do you have a cure there for covid-19?Krassy
- Good question, I really don't know, I'm afraid. But, the death rate looks low because of high testing, in part.Continuity
- https://www.telegrap…grafician
- This is CNN's take on the question: https://edition.cnn.…Continuity
- @grafician oh wow, way ahead of other places!Krassy
- nb0
Trump supporters like to praise Trump by saying he is doing "everything he can" to stop the virus, but really he could be donating his hotels and properties to be converted into temporary hospitals.
That would be doing more. You can't argue he's doing everything he can.
- politics or Trump thread, please. TnxKrassy
- He could do nothing and it would be better than what he is doing now.monospaced
- grafician3
Yup, Germany is ahead
"Germany will issue coronavirus antibody certificates to allow quarantined to re-enter society
Researchers to test thousands for immunity as Berlin plans exit strategy for pandemic lock down"- Well, that is certainly good news!Continuity
- remarkable!Krassy
- Ah, but according to Spiegel, the first results probably won't be available until end of April. Still, this is a good approach.Continuity
- Gattaca?
https://www.youtube.…Bluejam - https://i.imgur.com/…imbecile
- Nairn1
re: Germany - I wanted to make some pseudo-joke weeks back in the 'Predictions???' thread about people either with or without C-19 wearing yellow arm bands to signify their new found status in society. I couldn't formulate it well, so didn't bother.
Wish I had now, especially given it's Germany that's planning on issuing allowances for people to go out in public, which would've been somewhat ironic.
Not that I don't think it's a good idea - it's the only way I can think for society to start picking up the pieces.. although my thought was "well, people are going to start forging the armbands/certificates, aren't they?".
Mind you, the flip side is - apparently here in the UK there's been a spate of people attacking NHS workers going to and from work - which boggles my tiny little mind as I can't begin to understand the mentality that would lead to that. Visible arm-bands wouldn't be good with shitheads like that about.
- also you can bet your bottom dollar there'll be fakes everywhere within minutes...hans_glib
- Nairn, you have to remember that a number of people in the UK are idiots.PhanLo
- Got that covered, hans ;)
You ok, old bean? How's your neck of the woods - people still scooting about? You still working from the shed?Nairn
- utopian0
The head of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention said it’s a big mistake in the U.S. and Europe “that people aren’t wearing masks” in public.
- "...because when you speak, there are always droplets coming out of your mouth" - so, just don't speak.kingsteven
- https://summit.news/…********
- ^ this articles main source is the daily mail :D incrediblekingsteven
- summit.news - so that's Tommy Robinson posts his shit now and PJW sells his pills
https://thumbs.gfyca…Bluejam - it‘s an out of context quote from an official planted by some marketing people in western media. who is big producer of masks?uan
- Bluejam2
"World grimly watches as the same people who refused to follow the science on climate change, suffer actual and immediate consequences from not following the science on coronavirus."
- What a great quote and true on multiple levels.utopian
- Fox News will use the same quote but slightly modify it.utopian
- false equivalency. And, kinda hateful.MrAbominable
- ^ Yep.monNom
- akiersky7
- Timeline.
Kid'n @akiersky.
Great perspective from "an Indian doctor". I'm sitting on a glider at home listening to classical music; I am very lucky.ideaist - I am appreciating the shit out of it. Gratitude every day.nb
- sure but how many poor people 20, 30, 40 years ago had children when in poverty, and now all in poverty. If you can't afford children, maybe don't...shapesalad
- Sounds cruel, but in London / NY/ Tokyo, expensive cities, the 'rich' are not breeding as they can't afford it.shapesalad
- Land, resources and economy are not infinite things, there's a limit. I think 7.8 billion humans is pushing the limit.shapesalad
- : (dbloc
- lots of children is a consequence of poverty. it‘s a survival assurance when you are poor. better chances to grow old.uan
- India has 1.4 billion & growing, that number by itself the source of countless problems, nationally & globally. They've had what, 2500 years to get it together?********
- Fuck of BoboStBigotmonospaced
- india solved lots of 20th century poverty problems in the last 20years. they are nr.3 After US and China in the world.uan
- I was waiting for some asshole to impose their one dimensional “everything is class warfare” view on this.cannonball1978
- https://www.pbs.org/…neverscared
- Timeline.
- stoplying0
I can't help but think that the planet is finally getting a little bit of a breather here with the limited number of cars, planes, etc out and about.
- Satellite scans of air pollution show this is exactly what's happening.i_monk
- And it's a good thing, too.Continuity
- Link?robotron3k
- Nature finds its way.nbq
- https://www.weforum.…i_monk
- Akagiyama3
- This will kill a lot of people. Alcoholics can't go 7 days without and aren't able to ration or plan ahead.i_monk
- There is a strong correlation between addition and poor impulse control.i_monk
- Flol. I spat out my Corona.PhanLo
- Dayumm..robotron3k
- Rick CoROLLadRamanisky2
- well done.wagshaft
- Sorry, I got rolled, and I thought I'd share. I appreciate all the humor you guys pepper in this thread.Akagiyama
