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A ‘Banged Up By Boris’ preparation.
Haircuts – no haircut for four months would drive me itching crazy, so its a summer Buzzcut tomorrow and purchase of a wet/dry cordless razor to give my head a nice shiny appearance each day.
I hope it was the flash that made its eyes look like that!
I should have said that parents had checked the child’s temperature before sending him to school, and no way is the cough ‘dry’.
My #1 son just got on the phone to me to have a moan. He had just been called away from work to pick up his child from school as the child had coughed. Child taken out and put in isolation, classrooms closed because they were not sure ‘where’ he had coughed, so maybe a couple of hundred kids sent home because of one cough (almost certainly an ‘ordinary’ cough as he has a runny nose).
If kids cotton on to this they have the potential to disrupt and close schools irrespective of other Government guidelines.
Yet another case of Government inattention to details!
I think this Government of lightweights suddenly realised your point about isolating a child or any person in a household for that matter. They are now talking vaguely about ‘family isolation’
British Army could be in big trouble if a bog-roll shortage develops. I read that typical squaddie usage is 3 rolls/day! (Admittedly not all for the normal civilian use)
Too many family ties in Southern England for us to grow three legs in the IoM, nice as that proposition seems.
Bob,
I suggest that you write to your MP pointing out the issues that face people like you.I am bugging my MP on a weekly basis, they must be reaching the point of just regurgitating the Government pabulum from Mushroom Matt, but every now and again I throw in something they find either hard to refute or something that they need to consider more carefully.
It is issues such as these that expose the lightweight inability to grasp detail of Ministers and their minions. Normally it just causes the populace suffering but getting it wrong in this crisis will cost hundreds or more lives. A good example was the Government call to make ventilators, then the MD of JCB pointed out that they needed patent clearances, detailed engineering drawings and specifications as JCB could not possibly manufacture all the parts, and the equipment would need to be passed to others to add their bits. God help the patients if they did not all fit together. (To be honest as a major Conservative donor he did not add the latter in public but I bet he did in private.)
While I agree that hand-washing is good in getting rid of Covid-19, it can really only be done when you return home or are in an office.
You do not catch Covid-19 through your hands you get it when you touch your eyes, nose or mouth with your dirty hands,
After you have touched a hard surface in a public place such as a door handle, shopping cart handle, or cash point etc is when you should clean your hands, and when hand washing is nearly impossible. Hand sanitizer is best in this situation, but most anti-bacterial wipes will do in a pinch. You can then use the wipe to clean your car door handle after opening it.You really want to make the inside of your car virus free as quickly as possible, as face touching/scratching is almost an innate part of driving a car.
When you get home don’t forget to clean your own front door handle before the wife/kids grab it.
Its a tough call, if under 50 you should probably just take moderate precautions and just get on with life up to the point you get the flu-like symptoms. If over 50 then the Government has pretty much dictated that you WILL be infected and that it might be serious. You do need to make a judgement call on whether you grab the nettle before the big June crunch, risky behaviour now might be a good bet for your age group.
Us old pharts have been told to get out of the way and not to get ill so that we do not clog up the hospital. I hate to think what happens come September and we meet the few people that have a 23-27 day induction period or are in the tail end of the big epidemic or enter the country from somewhere else with a different strategy.
I would REALLY like to stress-test the assumptions that have been made by the Government Scientists. Do I trust Boris and his tame advisors — hell NO!
Oldies are going to need a different strategy to see themselves through being ‘banged-up by Boris’ for four months. OK if you have relatives near-by as they can leave stuff at your door. Harder when relatives are distant and neighbours are in the 70s too.
I’ve started my critical list. Get doctor to give me a four month prescription, stock up with malt etc. I’m not too worried by Supermarket stuff as the mass panic will soon subside and hopefully the Government will ask Supermarkets to prioritise home deliveries to those who need it.
Putting technically illiterate friends on Skype is also on our list. So rather than dinner parties with them we will Skype, order pizzas on-line and get wasted at home, while still chatting about nothing.
The wife started her list as well, and that involved my spending megabucks at the garden centre this morning as the back garden is going to be her summer retreat.
Now I see why my numbers made no sense. The population the Government is considering is not 66 million,,and also the people needing critical care will be less than 10% of those catching covid-19. The 70+ cut still results in a lot of 60+ at risk people, I hope the Government speeds up its ventilator and hospital bed procurement to match quite a large incremental demand. If you are over 60 and a smoker, stop now as the statistics show that smokers are especially at risk.
That said I really do not fancy spending April through August being banged-up by Boris!
I’m going to have to do another Lidl Malt run tomorrow!
My wife used to be the master brewer, but my recollection was that the secret was in good hops and a good yeast plus scrupulous hygiene in barrel and bottle washing. she used to use Milton as a sterilizer. Not sure now about the yeast source, but I do remember once we somehow obtained a bag of hops from the Guinness side of the Charringtons brewery in London and that made a really memorable brew.
Keep it simple (never try and computerise something without a very good idea of what you want)
A magnetic white board at each location.
Write down commodity and number, amend the number as you take in or out. A wood-working man of your calibre should be able to make an attractive but functional addition to your kitchen fixtures.
Glue high power neodymium magnets to hold the white board. This company has a very attractive range of strong magnets (some can easily hold a large hammer).
I have often wished that we had a Science & Technology based Government like that of Singapore. The way they have handled covid-19 as detailed in this Wired Article gives me even more reason to be envious of a Government that plans for the future, and is not buried by a Civil Service Public School system.
Beer making kits – that was all the rage in the 70s and if visiting a friend you could count on a very convivial night — especially when it reached the stage that raisin wine became mistaken for brown ale!
Start this week and you should have a fair old store of home made hooch put by for the peak end May/June period
Important pdf from Imperial College London giving Cov-2 symptoms and when they occur.
” We find that cases often present with fever and cough then progress to myalgia (muscle pain) or fatigue approximately 1 day later and finally, to pneumonia or respiratory symptoms approximately five days after that …”
Based on other Chinese reports if the patient gets to the pneumonia stage without hospitalisation then survival chances are pretty slim.
As the chances on one of us getting the virus are high, it would be wise to figure out from these symptoms when you can just tough it out having called 111 and when you start bugging the bejazus out of NHS 111.
Still worth trying the Roti John recipe one day but use real bread/baguettes per the actual recipe. Strongly ecommended.
In Singapore there was also a Buddhist/vegetarian option for the recipe using soya mince instead of beef/lamb mince and chick pea water/gram flour instead of eggs (I do not recommend substituting for the eggs in an omelette type recipe, but it may impress a vegetarian daughter).
With pretty diagrams etc., this blog states what I think is the unspoken Cummings policy. A quick kill.
More importantly, I now have my Lidl Malt!
Any bets on the Government policy announcement this afternoon?
My guess is that the Government will try to go for herd immunity via a quick burn (i.e a continuation of the current measures), accept a few deaths in the productive age group and tell everyone at risk to isolate for a month or face the conseqiuences.
I have stocked up with Beer, Crisps, DVDs, Netflix etc in anticipation. However, I do still need a quick trip to Lidl’s to stock up the malt supplies!
IPA is no longer easy to get on Amazon. Strangely, simple face masks no longer seem as hard to get – obviously China is getting back to work!
If strong bread flour is out of stock, try the more esoteric flours. I was in Holland & Barrett this morning getting dried fruit and their shelves had a lot of the (more expensive) odd-ball bread flours. I personally quite like chick pea flour (gram flour) as it makes some interesting snack breads e.g. Gram Bread plus Roti John. When the wife was away I used to live on this in Singapore. Try an Asian or Indian/Bangladeshi store and they will probably have gram flour.
(I knew the girl in the video, but she was much younger and helping her mum)
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