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There is nothing to gain by using ‘Home’ vs Pro other than cost. In fact Home lacks quite a lot of useful flexibility.
In the Middle East moonshine stills could result in quite dire penalties, and were easily recognised by the religious police. The most desperate alcoholics used something else which was both harder to detect and potentially near lethal. They first made raisin wine, then froze it in trays in their freezer. Once frozen they carefully took off the layer of ice from the top, leaving the liquid alcohol and all the head-banging materials concentrated below. Rinse and repeat
As this process concentrates up the poisonous methanol and fusel oils the cognoscenti used to heat the raisin wine up to about 30-40c in a saucepan (i.e. leave in the sun!) and allow about a quarter of it to evaporate off. They would then freeze-distil the remainder.
I’m not sure if the Youtube was put together by a Middle East oilman but it would not surprise me if it were true.
Try Thurrock another zero, also well known as the A-Hole of England. Obviously the successors to Reggie and Ronnie Kray destain skiing holidays!
Les, I suspect that you will only see a handful of cases on the IoM, unlike those who live in the upmarket areas of London and the Home Counties. (I wonder why Hertfordshire is so high?)
A grandson’s birthday party has just been cancelled because of information my Number One son just received from a surgical friend. Apparently the surgical friend was called into a staff meeting and told to cancel all his outside meetings whether social or otherwise. Either things are getting a tad warm in these parts or the hospital is taking steps to avoid their staff going sick.
Draw your own conclusions, but maybe our Government of Fools were spooked by the virus hitting close to home, and have started to trigger actions. Hopefully those will now include new advice to wear masks in order to reduce the onward spread of any infections. (N95 masks now appear to be available on Amazon).
Again the Government puts money above health, and they obviously want to ensure that they spread the virus as quickly as possible to get a big but short economic hit.
“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 Government is totally out of its depth in its p&p for CoV-2. They may as well say, never travel on the tube or in crowded places. If you pick up CoV-2 from an unknown source we will not test or treat you until you finally collapse in extremis and call the emergency services.
One can only hope that the Cabinet and its Advisors gets the virus first, maybe that would bring a more rational approach.
At long last someone has told Mushroom Matt that his policy of lies and concealment is not helping matters. The UK Government has now released a little information (still not enough) on where the CoV-2 cases are happening.
Unfortunately as it stands, the information is not very helpful when it comes to rational decision making. Sky TV have put the same data into a cases/head of population basis.
If you can figure your way around its carp interface, this shows that the places with the greatest density of disease are those with the highest disposable income (foreign holidays?). I’ll bet the odd-ball figures for the Shetlands are mostly oil workers.
However I would imagine that the Nottingham numbers (lowest in England) may in future be impacted by the Notts Forest owner’s illness.
I like reading about history as there are many different lessons/analogies hidden away in the tales, even if they are always written by the winners.
Today I came across this recounting of the 1918 Flu that killed millions of young people. What really drew my attention was the story told by Figure 1 in this pdf. Philadelphia did nothing to prevent large gatherings of people until too late and had a death rate of 250/100000, while St Louis banned public gatherings as soon as they saw the first evidence of flu, their death rate was always below 70/100000.
I could not help a mental comparison with our own Government of fools. They obviously put the economy above public health. Luckily however, the ones most affected can make their own decision and do their own St Louis, and leave the Cheltenham Gold Cup etc to those who most deserve the consequences!
Battling Coronavirus in Rome in 2017 or earlier!
Now this is what you call prescient, a bit like the D-Day crossword compiler for the Daily Telegraph. (if you are not familiar with that tale look it up, it makes quite a story.)
I was watching a BBC report on the Italian lock-down and it suddenly struck me how frequently Churches play a leading role in initiating major Cov-2 outbreaks. That was certainly the case for both Korea and Singapore. Maybe the Italians and Spanish should consider how great a role has been played by the Communion Cup.
Look out Eire!
Bob, it may be that children’s immune systems do not generate a runaway immune response, so it just looks like their usual runny noses. I do however agree that the mortality versus age needs investigation. I’m of the opinion based (not on a lot of evidence) that if we could plot zinc deficiency with age against CoV-2 mortality there would be a close correlation.
The more research I do on zinc the more convinced I am of its importance. I think one day we may discover that zinc and magnesium deficiencies are the biggest killers of the modern age,
Just a little snippet on zinc, people with zinc deficiencies are more likely to develop GERD.
More bad news – it looks like drowning your sorrows in alcohol if you catch Cov-2 could be a very bad idea. The Chinese reported cases of liver failure that were caused by the virus. Ain’t life a bitch!
Just as the disease is fast moving, the scientific name is also fast moving and it is now called:
SARS-CoV-2
Apparently children are not the usual bag of bugs for Cov-2.
“Still, as the Joint Mission report noted, given the data available, it is not possible to determine the extent of infection among children and what role that plays in driving the spread of disease and the epidemic overall. “Of note,” the report went on, “people interviewed by the Joint Mission Team could not recall episodes in which transmission occurred from a child to an adult. — source Ars Technica”
It is obvious that Boeing still puts profits above safety. Despite FAA regulators warning that the wiring bundles on the 737Max are a short circuit and potential fire hazard, Boeing objected to the FAA safety instruction. The FAA have now unusually found some teeth and have instructed Boeing to make changes.
It should be noted that the Boeing 737 NG has exactly the same safety hazard, So far the fAA have not instructed boeing to ground these planes.
The US Center for Disease Control have published guidance for those deemed to be at risk. i.e. Older adults, and people who have serious chronic medical conditions like:Heart disease, Diabetes or Lung disease.
The CDC advice can be found here.
As there is no official UK advice on this, one can only assume the Government would rather this problem sector is out of sight out of mind! link
A recent Adjusted Case Fatality Rate (CFR), suggests an overall CFR of 1.6. This assumes that Covid-19 is asymptomatic in 50% of cases and not reported as covid-19 for statistical purposes. The analysis makes other adjustments chiefly an assumption that it is only the young that are asymptomatic. The researchers offer zero rationale for this assumption but it results in a flu-like CFR for under 40s, and a reduction in CFR for under 60s. At the same time it increases the CFR for 60+ to roughly 5%, 10% for 70+ and 18% for 80+
These stats have to be treated with a lot of caution as the assumption that 50% of cases are undetected, and that all these are under 60 is to say the least a sweeping assumption. If true, this means that we are now approaching the 500 mark for cases in the UK.
In case people missed it this is an overview of an important covid-19 interview on Channel 4. It starts to balance the lies and half-truths fed to us by Mushroom Matt Hancock.
At least one sensible idea is coming out of the Government and sporting Bodies think-tanks.
BAN old pharts over 70 from attending large gatherings of people.. I see it as an extremely sensible idea. It would achieve a lot of objectives:
It would save old people from themselves.
It would reduce potential loads on the NHS.
It would reduce the odds of NHS staff having to allocate scare resources based on age.
It would thin out crowds and cut transmission rates.
It is such a sensible suggestion that you can bet some addled brained Tory blimps will oppose it. Maybe it should also be applied to the seat of Government too!
In this age of totally empty planes flying around, it is probably of only passing interest that the US Government have published their preliminary findings on the causes of the crashes of the flying deathtrap called the Boeing 737 Max. The report raises major question marks in my mind about the safety of ANY civil plane manufactured by Boeing.
Even though the report is at a preliminary stage, I would be shocked if senior management at Boeing are not charged with criminal proceedings – maybe even manslaughter. Much of the report just confirms the early findings of investigative journalism – the Management of Boeing set an impossibly short development timetable and rode roughshod over any and all safety concerns. Management at Boeing and put their profits before safety.
The senior management of the FAA do not come out squeaky-clean either. There seemed to be an old-boys club between senior managers in Boeing and the FAA that enabled Boeing to silence any concerns raised by low-level FAA employees.
I can see civil case lawyers licking their greedy chops. I’d be surprised if each passenger’s next of kin do not come out with seven or eight figure court awards. Maybe triple damages will seem a small multiplier when compensation claims come to trial.
London School of Tropical Medicine – I knew a Prof there at one time. Luckily never professionally!
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