Garden centres will open in Wales and England this coming week as announced yesterday but not in Scotland.

 

 

 

Garden centres to open in Wales and England but not Scotland - Northern Ireland not announced plans yet - people in England can drive to take exercise but not across borders into Wales and Scotland

— Hugh Pym (@BBCHughPym) May 10, 2020

Anyone doing this :-

https://foldingathome.org/covid19/

 

 

 

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Coronavirus blood-clot mystery intensifies

Research begins to pick apart the mechanisms behind a deadly COVID-19 complication.

Purple rashes, swollen legs, clogged catheters and sudden death — blood clots, large and small, are a frequent complication of COVID-19, and researchers are just beginning to untangle why. 

Blood thinners don’t reliably prevent clotting in people with COVID-19, and young people are dying of strokes caused by the blockages in the brain. And many people in hospital have drastically elevated levels of a protein fragment called D-dimer, which is generated when a clot dissolves. High levels of D-dimer appear to be a powerful predictor of mortality in hospitalized patients infected with coronavirus.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-01403-8

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Hello Marcus, of course currently around 10 split over 5 classrooms.

Think we will have to see how the next couple of weeks pan out before definite decisions is made on the 2 year groups mentioned, but I would think the numbers would be divided into the number of total classrooms in the school.

not sure how we stand with a covid outbreak within the school or schools as surly it’s a specialist cleaning  job.

 

 

 

 

I don't think 'enjoyed' quite fits the bill but thanks anyway.

'Nonplussed' might be closer.

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I think the change in exercise advice just opens the door for selfish pillocks to charge through.

We're already seeing further upsurge in cases of horrible scumbags wilfully ignoring the rules on social distancing, whether it's arseholes having VE-Day p*ss-ups, gobshites throwing street or birthday parties, shitheads driving to beaches & beauty spots because they're too special, or sneeringly arrogant second-home owners believing the restrictions don't to apply to wealthy people like them.

From the BBC:

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Does it say anything about cafes or restaurants within those organisations, as many are small and excellent breeding grounds.

 

The big change is the steer for people to go back to work. I realise the adjustment is quite subtle on paper but it could well make a big difference to the infection rate. It's possible to make workplaces safer but virtually impossible to make them "Covid secure". I wouldn't want to go back at the present time. It'll be interesting to see how it plays out.

 

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Meant, Gandalf, in my slackening mental capacity, that it's not great to judge when we don't know how anyone else, given the circumstances, would have done better.

Nothing more sinister.

 

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Cafés, play areas etc are not permitted to open.

This week in England 

• 11,121 new cases


• 2,939 new deaths

Last week in England 

• 14,658 new cases


• 3,786 new deaths

Week ending April 12th - The current peak in England

• 26,516 new cases 


• 5,842 deaths

Week ending March 29th - The first week of the lockdown

• 10,902 new cases


• 1,174 new deaths

I’ve fixed that for you

 

I wonder if the furloughing bill is proving unpalatable for fiscal right-wingers in the Tory Party.

Problem is, a huge number of people can't go back to work, because their work isn't allowed to open. The bulk of the retail industry, hospitality industry, travel industry... all forced to remain shut (quite rightly). The advice to those unable to work from home has always been that they're alright to go to work.

 

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Cafes and restaurants are to remain closed

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Boris might well have sung the chorus of the Royal Navy anthem, Hearts of Oak, and then shut up - the lyrics encapsulate his speech and have about as much of definite substance

Heart of Oak are our ships,
Jolly Tars are our men,
We always are ready: Steady, boys, Steady!
We'll fight and we'll conquer again and again.
 
I suppose he had to say something vaguely uplifting, but the emphasis was on vague, and it came out rather like a bland corporate press release, not at all gritty and to the point as per Churchill. However I think we had  better wait to see the detailed measures and digest them  tomorrow before judging whether he is actually taking sensible steps.
 
Even if those steps were to be positive, I would find it hard to forgive him, or credit him with the ability to take timely and decisive action when he was missing for a critical two weeks in March; doubly so if it is a true report that he used that time to sort out the details of his divorce when he should have had his focus on the national interest.
 
Then, of course, he surrounded himself with nonentities who could be relied on not to compete for his job, and were consequently afraid to take binding decisions when their boss was in hospital. (I'm thinking of a much earlier quarantine for air passengers)

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Agree. I would desperately love to check up on Dad, on his own, miles away; and my eldest- can't get through to him. the compulsion is there, believe me, but actually, that's not right, right now. Then, at the back, one household became two last week:'how about we do lunch, you do tea?" Seven children and 4 adults we estimate; the new moves could mean the whole terrace joins into an extended family.

 

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You nailed it.

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its called world demand, reduced agreed world production , storage cost, then how much can we rip them for.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2f5MvVx8RM8

1) I think there was certainly an element of that. 

2) True and it's why I said the change is quite subtle. Nonetheless I expect it to have a big impact because now there is an actual push to get people back to work. Of course anyone in a high risk group will not be expected to return. That means confidentiality will be compromised because it will immediately become known which of your work colleagues have an underlying medical condition.

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That’s not good it needs reporting My 5 litres x 10 came on Friday so no excuse also have put them in dispenser at entry of each class and corridors.

btw how we going to manage senco and school transport?

I wish Russia would let us know their secret of keeping people alive. Another 11k new cases today, but less than a hundred reported dead again. So out of sync with other countries. Over hundred nurses and doctors dead. Some 'managing' to fall out of windows. Ministers going down with the virus like flies. A few weeks ago 9 hour ambulance queues waiting to go into hospitals when the new case rate was 4k. How on earth are they coping now. I suspect there are a lot of bodies in bags being taken somewhere and hidden/disposed of.

Thanks Gav

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Good enough for me - City veteran David Buik isn't impressed:

I feared as much. PM Johnson’s 10 minute update and rallying call to remain vigilant proved to be very ambiguous and inevitably will attract adverse criticism. If he was not able to make an unequivocal statement, he needed to elaborate or say nothing!

— David Buik (@truemagic68) May 10, 2020

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