Brain, can you expanded what this means in layman’s terms. Finance isn’t my strong point.

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Marcus, you can be a knob sometimes 

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Methinks this number must be small because it hasn't spread as much as I expected outside of the hot spots. Thats just gut feel.

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The UK's current account deficit in recent years has increasingly been funded by the capital inflows from overseas investors. If they lose confidence in the UK the £ will go down even further and the country will find it increasingly difficult to afford imports - many of which are essential because we are now primarily a service based economy.

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Indeed Roger!  And it should be straight forward keyhole surgery, then 3 or 4 days in hospital followed by a couple more weeks off work. As it is, his doctor has signed him off sick until after his op and it looks like he could be off for some time.  The worst part though, is not knowing what the damn thing’s doing, whether it’s spread and whether he’ll need more doing by the time he gets seen.  

On the other hand, having it done under the current circumstances will lower his resistance and put him at risk, so now may not be a good time anyway.  Between a rock and a hard place comes to mind!  

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A tiny sample but the professor is encouraged.

https://marseille.latribune.fr/innovation/2020-03-17/coronavirus-l-ihu-mediterranee-infection-en-voie-de-prouver-l-efficacite-de-la-chloroquine-842462.html

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He had little taste for the accusations of " fake new" following his recent remarks evoking the effectiveness of chloroquine, an antimalarial known since the 1930s, against the coronavirus. Didier Raoult, director of the IHU Méditerranée Infection, then referred to a Chinese study according to which this treatment would reduce the time it takes to carry the virus to four days, against 14 to 20 days without treatment. But in the absence of a sufficiently large cohort and an in-depth analysis of side effects, this study was decried by certain researchers and the news was even presented as fake news by French media and, for several hours, by the site from the Ministry of Health.

 

After six days of treatment, the virus disappeared in 75% of the patients tested

 

Nothing to discourage the professor ranked number one worldwide among experts in communicable diseases according to the latest Expertsace ranking. On the contrary, he launched within his establishment a new clinical trial including 24 patients, with administered doses lower than the Chinese trial: 600 mg per day against twice 500 mg in China. And the results are very encouraging. After six days of treatment with Plaquenil - one of the trade names for hydroxychloroquine - only 25% of patients are carriers of the virus, compared to 90% in the control group. Better still, when you combine hydroxyhloroquine with azythromycin, an antibiotic known for its antiviral effects, this figure is almost zero. "However, everyone who dies dies with the virus. No longer having the virus changes the prognosis . " And this shorter porting time of course has an impact on the risk of contagion. The good news is also that this treatment is inexpensive and easy to produce. As for the side effects, they exist but are relatively known and controlled according to the dosages adopted, assures the professor.

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Your recent contributions are both unhelpful and really quite offensive to most of the forum. Enjoy the 14 day holiday which I'm imposing, to reflect on how you could improve the way portray your views.

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  Sorry Rob!  We all have our faults!  

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All she ever seems to talk about is Indy Ref THREE.

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Thousands more beds, ventilators and extra healthcare staff will be available from next week to aid the fight against coronavirus thanks to a deal between NHS England and independent hospitals, the NHS has announced.

The extra resources, including nearly 20,000 staff, will also help the NHS deliver other urgent operations and cancer treatments.

The deal - the first of its kind - includes the provision of 8,000 hospital beds across England, nearly 1,200 more ventilators, more than 10,000 nurses, over 700 doctors and over 8,000 other clinical staff.

In London it includes over 2000 hospital beds, and over 250 operating theatres and critical beds.

 

Source: Sky news live blog 15:13 - https://news.sky.com/story/coronavirus-89-new-cases-in-wales-takes-uk-total-past-4-000-11961367

The NHS will stick to its ethical standards and deliver appropriate care to every patient - Beast - but appropriate care does not necessarily mean cure. It could mean compassionate nursing through an end of life path to a gentle passing. We all need to face up to that possibility because many of us will come to that point one day - hopefully long delayed.

If I get CO-19 and die I will be mighty pissed off in my final lucid moments because I nearly died after surgery last year and spent some time in ICU. That cost the NHS a lot - though I will say it would have cost them a lot less if their had listened to me when I first presented.

I will be pissed off to be triaged away from ICU - however I am 70 and high risk. I am enjoying life to the full and don't want to pack it in just now when I still have a lot to give. And, BTW, my survival is worth something to the economy, I pay tax, I save, I spend, I create employment, I will pass money on when I go which will be spent. Nevertheless, I am a realist and know that things may not work out well, so I have an Advance Decision [Living Will] in place. In other words, for the sake of family, friends and the NHS staff I have already consented to have the plug pulled when we get to a defined point. In a phrase "It's the right thing to do." An ethical choice. 

I just hope the sod who gets my slot is not one of the hamstering black-marketeers with a trolley!

https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/end-of-life-care/advance-decision-to-refuse-treatment/

 

 

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That’s partly what I was alluding to in earlier threads. If for some reason we cannot import food we are going to find next winter a difficult time. It could be the balance of payments or some other issue no one has flagged up yet that brings this about. Which is why I brought up the need to increase our food production this year beginning this spring while we still have a window. Devonian and others understand this but I sense there is still the idea that the virus will be over by Easter especially with Boris’s 12 weeks and it’s over optimism. And then we’ll all be able to head to Rock in August for a jolly good blowout to celebrate Victory.

No. We need to prepare for a siege economy. Yes there are strategic stocks in obscure locations that get rotated which we can use but in the meantime...

 

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I just feel her directness and lack of woolly statements is what we presently require from a PM. I'm not very interested in indyref3.

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Confirmed No of global cases Vs global mortality rate as of 8am this morning:

Case count beginning to curve up while mortality rate seems to be somewhat flattening out (for now).

 

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Breaking: All John Lewis shops will close at the end of business on Monday.

The generosity of @O2 in the country’s hour of need knows no bounds. Visiting the NHS website will not count towards your data allowance! pic.twitter.com/2nDSoPRNFn

— Justin Williams (@justin_williams) March 21, 2020

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That’s a good call but unfortunate as it’s quite clear he’s lonely and has very little in his life.  But he did choose to ignore gentler warnings and surely he knew he was pushing his limit! 

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St Albans is clearly no different to Banbury - Banbury needs a to be hit with the virus to get the message home ( obviously with everyone surviving ) its bonkers how so many people just aren't getting it 

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It is hovering around the value I expected. Not good news but it is what it is.

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It's not a decision I've taken lightly I can assure you. We've had a number of discussions about this in the mods forum and in honesty I've made this call without reference to the rest of the admin team, so if there are any objections I'm quite happy to take responsibility and accept pm's about finally making this call.  

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I have actually been pleasantly surprised and impressed by her tone and manner in a very difficult situation for any leader. (Not sure about PM though!)

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She can talk at machine gun pace, but at the end if it I can't work out what, other than saying the UK government's decisions are bad for Scotland and she wants another referendum, she is actually proposing.

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Oh come off it , there are worse things said about Boris on here and you know it , a personal attack like that from you is bang out of order .

Boris Johnson hasn't taken this seriously IMO and been  too slow .

I'm entitled to an opinion about someone , oh and I haven't labelled him a knob

Cheap Shot from you , IMO 

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