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Quantum
11 March 2020 12:22:03


I'll be f***ing livid if they close all schools. My eldest is sitting her GCSE's in May/June and I don't want anything to disrupt her chances. These results will stay with her for life.


 


Originally Posted by: Saint Snow 


GCSES don't stay with you for life. And not being in school doesn't mean you can't prepare for them anyway.


 

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2023/2024 Snow days (approx 850hpa temp):
29/11 (-6), 30/11 (-6), 02/12 (-5), 03/12 (-5), 04/12 (-3), 16/01 (-3), 18/01 (-8), 08/02 (-5)

Total: 8 days with snow/sleet falling.

2022/2023 Snow days (approx 850hpa temp):

18/12 (-1), 06/03 (-6), 08/03 (-8), 09/03 (-6), 10/03 (-8), 11/03 (-5), 14/03 (-6)

Total: 7 days with snow/sleet falling.

2021/2022 Snow days (approx 850hpa temp):

26/11 (-5), 27/11 (-7), 28/11 (-6), 02/12 (-6), 06/01 (-5), 07/01 (-6), 06/02 (-5), 19/02 (-5), 24/02 (-7), 30/03 (-7), 31/03 (-8), 01/04 (-8)
Total: 12 days with snow/sleet falling.
Maunder Minimum
11 March 2020 12:22:09


 


To be fair, that's a direct copy from the Sky News website, so the blame lies with them.


Originally Posted by: John p 


Why are people being nasty to Gavin for posting what is reported on Sky?


For the record, this is how the Telegraph reports what she said:


"Up to 70% of the population is likely to be infected with the coronavirus, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said, adding that since there was currently no cure the focus had to be on slowing its spread."


- so I guess there is an issue of translation from the original German.

New world order coming.
Retron
11 March 2020 12:23:47


 


They are already drawing up contingency plans to deal with the implications. I think you can relax; either they'll be delayed or an allowance will be made if a student has been taken ill in the run up to, or during, the exams.  When it's nationwide I think it's less of a concern in terms of fairness and impact - but I fully understand the worry.


Originally Posted by: Gandalf The White 


The contingency plans are running exams in June/July instead. Source: the Head in a meeting this morning!


 

Leysdown, north Kent
warrenb
11 March 2020 12:24:59


 


The contingency plans are running exams in June/July instead. Source: the Head in a meeting this morning!


 


Originally Posted by: Retron 


 


Phew, that is a relief, may not affect Saint's holiday.

Tonbridge 45m 
Arcus
11 March 2020 12:31:10
A member of Nadine Dorries’ staff has tested positive for coronavirus, a party source has confirmed.
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Gavin D
11 March 2020 12:34:35
Breaking: Korean Air have grounded 100 aircraft including all its A380 fleet
Quantum
11 March 2020 12:34:51

The people that want Boris to get infected are absolutely nuts.


You want the government to collapse during this? You don't have to like him, but he is still the guy that rubber stamps all the contingency mesaures. Stop being tribal for once.


 

Twitter: @QuantumOverlord (general), @MedicaneWatch (medicane/TC stuff)
2023/2024 Snow days (approx 850hpa temp):
29/11 (-6), 30/11 (-6), 02/12 (-5), 03/12 (-5), 04/12 (-3), 16/01 (-3), 18/01 (-8), 08/02 (-5)

Total: 8 days with snow/sleet falling.

2022/2023 Snow days (approx 850hpa temp):

18/12 (-1), 06/03 (-6), 08/03 (-8), 09/03 (-6), 10/03 (-8), 11/03 (-5), 14/03 (-6)

Total: 7 days with snow/sleet falling.

2021/2022 Snow days (approx 850hpa temp):

26/11 (-5), 27/11 (-7), 28/11 (-6), 02/12 (-6), 06/01 (-5), 07/01 (-6), 06/02 (-5), 19/02 (-5), 24/02 (-7), 30/03 (-7), 31/03 (-8), 01/04 (-8)
Total: 12 days with snow/sleet falling.
Caz
  • Caz
  • Advanced Member
11 March 2020 12:36:11


This from the Guardian:


"I work in Parliament and developed the same symptoms as Nadine Dorries MP on the same day. I’ve had a dry cough, chest pain and fever for four days.


NHS 111 services triaged me away from Coronovirus on Friday. I could not be tested because I hadn’t been in close contact to a previously confirmed case.


The official 111 advice for me this morning - after calling again to check after hearing about Nadine Dorries MP - is to go to work with a cough, wash my hands, and assume that I don’t have it. (I am actually going to ignore that advice and work from home.)


I am worried that only testing people who have been ‘contact traced’ is missing a lot of people in the community, and that people like me may have coronavirus and are being advised to go to work anyway. Is this because the Government simply can’t do the number of tests needed?"


There is a fiasco brewing...


Originally Posted by: Justin W 

As was the point I made this morning.  High profile suspects are more likely to be tested than Joe public. 

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Saint Snow
11 March 2020 12:39:51


The people that want Boris to get infected are absolutely nuts.


You want the government to collapse during this? You don't have to like him, but he is still the guy that rubber stamps all the contingency mesaures. Stop being tribal for once.


 


Originally Posted by: Quantum 


 


I don't just want him to get coronavirus...


Martin
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"How can wealth persuade poverty to use its political freedom to keep wealth in power? Here lies the whole art of Conservative politics."
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xioni2
11 March 2020 12:40:38


As was the point I made this morning.  High profile suspects are more likely to be tested than Joe public. 


Originally Posted by: Caz 


I don't know the details about Dorries, but she wasn't tested when she developed symptoms on Friday. I don't know if that was her decision (she was a nurse) or an 111 one.


 

Maunder Minimum
11 March 2020 12:42:03

This is reported in The Telegraph, so don't take it out on me:


"Following our update at 12:12,  the head of the Norwegian army's operations centre,  Lieutenant General Rune Jakobsen, told reporters that "the coronavirus is out of control,"





"We would rather preserve our army's combat capabilities so we can support society in the turbulent period to come."


A total of 277 cases of coronavirus have so far been identified in Norway, and the spread is now no longer always traceable to foreign travel, according to the Nordic country's Institute of Public Health.


Last Thursday, a military camp at the centre of the NATO exercise was quarantined after one of the soldiers was diagnosed with coronavirus."


 




New world order coming.
xioni2
11 March 2020 12:43:26


The people that want Boris to get infected are absolutely nuts.


You want the government to collapse during this? You don't have to like him, but he is still the guy that rubber stamps all the contingency mesaures. Stop being tribal for once.


 

Originally Posted by: Quantum 


Boris out of the decision making would be very welcome IMO, I don't trust the guy at all. We should send him to Milan for an emergency holiday with one of his goomars.


 


 

warrenb
11 March 2020 12:44:57

Dominique Rabb looks a little unwell doesn't he.

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xioni2
11 March 2020 12:46:35


Dominique Rabb looks a little unwell doesn't he.


Originally Posted by: warrenb 


I think I may become religious after all.

Saint Snow
11 March 2020 12:47:02

In the last 24 hours, 9 planes from mainland Spain have landed in Liverpool; another 4 due before this evening.


 


Martin
Home: St Helens (26m asl) Work: Manchester (75m asl)
A TWO addict since 14/12/01
"How can wealth persuade poverty to use its political freedom to keep wealth in power? Here lies the whole art of Conservative politics."
Aneurin Bevan
Quantum
11 March 2020 12:47:49

I think we are entering the sustained local transmission phase now.


This could have been prevented.

Twitter: @QuantumOverlord (general), @MedicaneWatch (medicane/TC stuff)
2023/2024 Snow days (approx 850hpa temp):
29/11 (-6), 30/11 (-6), 02/12 (-5), 03/12 (-5), 04/12 (-3), 16/01 (-3), 18/01 (-8), 08/02 (-5)

Total: 8 days with snow/sleet falling.

2022/2023 Snow days (approx 850hpa temp):

18/12 (-1), 06/03 (-6), 08/03 (-8), 09/03 (-6), 10/03 (-8), 11/03 (-5), 14/03 (-6)

Total: 7 days with snow/sleet falling.

2021/2022 Snow days (approx 850hpa temp):

26/11 (-5), 27/11 (-7), 28/11 (-6), 02/12 (-6), 06/01 (-5), 07/01 (-6), 06/02 (-5), 19/02 (-5), 24/02 (-7), 30/03 (-7), 31/03 (-8), 01/04 (-8)
Total: 12 days with snow/sleet falling.
Saint Snow
11 March 2020 12:48:04


Dominique Rabb looks a little unwell doesn't he.


Originally Posted by: warrenb 


 


 


The undead never look their best in daylight


Martin
Home: St Helens (26m asl) Work: Manchester (75m asl)
A TWO addict since 14/12/01
"How can wealth persuade poverty to use its political freedom to keep wealth in power? Here lies the whole art of Conservative politics."
Aneurin Bevan
xioni2
11 March 2020 12:48:26


In the last 24 hours, 9 planes from mainland Spain have landed in Liverpool; another 4 due before this evening.


 

Originally Posted by: Saint Snow 


Heavy Weather 2013
11 March 2020 12:49:16


In the last 24 hours, 9 planes from mainland Spain have landed in Liverpool; another 4 due before this evening.


 


Originally Posted by: Saint Snow 


And Madrid is one of the main Spanish hotspots for COVID-19

Mark
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Maunder Minimum
11 March 2020 12:51:02


I think we are entering the sustained local transmission phase now.


This could have been prevented.


Originally Posted by: Quantum 


I know Gandalf will disagree, but far more should have been done to isolate Italy from the UK over a week ago.


Moldova, Israel and now China are implementing the only policies which can work now - all arrivals from anywhere to self isolate for 2 weeks on arrival - no arrivals from hot zones.


 

New world order coming.
Heavy Weather 2013
11 March 2020 12:52:29

News from SK:


After 11 days of slowing infections, a further 242 cases have been reported today - compared with 35 a day earlier.


Concerns that a new cell is occuring

Mark
Beckton, E London
Less than 500m from the end of London City Airport runway.
Gavin D
11 March 2020 12:54:16

Breaking: All Nottingham Forest players and staff have tested negative for coronavirus

Maunder Minimum
11 March 2020 12:55:00

More information from the Telegraph:


"Coronavirus patients with mild symptoms appear to be most infectious within a week of contracting the disease, but are unlikely to pass the virus on after 10 days, German researchers have revealed.


In a small study of nine patients - one of the first one of the first to map when people actively transmit the illness to others - scientists found that people with mild symptoms emit extremely high amounts of the virus at an early stage of their infection.


“Peak shedding” - when a person with Covid-19 is most infectious - typically occurs within five days of picking up the disease, and patients emit 1,000 times more virus than during peak shedding of a Sars infection. This very high rate helps to explain why the virus has spread so rapidly across the globe."


 

New world order coming.
xioni2
11 March 2020 12:55:12


 And Madrid is one of the main Spanish hotspots for COVID-19


Originally Posted by: Heavy Weather 2013 


Yeah, this must be one of the most risky (or stupid) decisions.

Heavy Weather 2013
11 March 2020 12:55:36

From Sky


For businesses with fewer than 250 employees Government will fund SSP for two weeks - £2billion - big move to encourage self isolation, good news for SMEs


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I wonder if HMG wanted to get clarity on these messages out today ahead of changing advise later.

Mark
Beckton, E London
Less than 500m from the end of London City Airport runway.
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