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The guy is evidently feared to be a ‘super-spreader’ as an NHS friend of mine tells me that they have already quarantined his local pub in Hove, and I guess the bar staff are similarly inconvenienced. He had no word on the patrons of the pub/restaurant but I guess they have been asked to self quarantine. No news either on how the authorities are handling his transport from airport to home.
I will not give the name of the pub as I have not heard the info from independent sources.
February 10, 2020 at 8:06 am in reply to: Read First if flying on a Boeing 737 Max–or maybe not! #40482The system is a bit unstable today, my previous post disappeared into thin air so I’ll abbreviate this:
More Boeing screwups reported. The Starliner tests had more things wrong with it than first revealed. Not only did the spacecraft aim for the wrong orbit, had it remained on course it would have been shot down by its own booster rocket!
According to Boeing communications problems with the craft were not due to badly positioned antennae but too much terrestial mobile phone yakking.
Be it a potent common cold, 24 hour flu or coronavirus I’m going to stock up on zinc gluconate lozenges and zinc nasal gel tomorrow. Although the research on zinc is mixed it does seem to help stop the body over-reacting and reduces the severity of any fever caused by nasal viruses. (The medical consensus seems to be that most western people are deficient in zinc and that a significant deficiency makes the immune system and any fever spiral out of control. It also seems that nearly all elderly western people are deficient in the mineral due to the gut not working as well as it did).
Frankly I do not care if it is all just voodoo science. This cold and attendant sneezing is driving me nuts, so I’ll cling to any straw!
If you want to check up on zinc for yourself, google on ‘nasal virus zinc gluconate research’.
Something for you to play with Dan. BlenderGIS
Carcassonne may be an interesting one to use.
El Reg reports that the Turkeys carried on HMS White Elephant are not even good enough for the Yanks!
I’m not sure that they need to be a ‘clubber’,
The business man who caught it in Singapore, not only travelled twice with a captive plane load of people sharing recycled air, he would on arrival from France in a British airport (probably Gatwick) have travelled coughing and sneezing through a crowded train station and caught the train to Brighton sharing it with dozens of unknown passengers. Whether that gives cause for major concern depends on whether or not he is a super-spreader. Judging by the fact that he infected five+ in a chalet implies that he is certainly not a low count spreader.
Having just caught a bad cold myself I’m starting to get worried, but I console myself that the grandchildren did not come in with their usual Porton Down payload so I’m probably OK!
If you (or anyone else) are serious about purchasing an oxygen concentrator be very careful to read and fully understand the usage/safety instructions. Get familiar with its procedures well before you feel really under the weather. Even a small home machine could start a fierce blaze if badly sited or used.
High purity oxygen can be a very dangerous beast. When I was a young Chemical Engineer oxygen generator safety was a big safety thing. Admittedly this was Lox (liquid oxygen) but at that time every year at least one plant together with all its operators would disappear with a flash and a load bang from somewhere in the world. On the more positive side, high purity gases are unlikely to generate such a bang unless someone decides to dust a cake with icing sugar near a source of ignition!
I’ve been on grandparent duty this weekend (just been relieved of three young ones). during this time I was able to sit down and chat with the seven year-old. His school introduce Chrome books to that age group. Scratch programming does not feature much at that stage, instead they concentrate on the use of computers in things such as creative writing. e.g using font size to emphasise small, big, getting smaller, getting bigger etc. They also introduce simple layout, headers, footers etc.
Due to funding as much as anything else a lot of this is done in cooperative groups sharing one computer and sparking ideas to one another. (Useful in itself to him as he is just on the A-spectrum).
My edits are not working again!
I wanted to add that it would be very difficult for any East Asian government to have shutdown Wet Markets as they have been a traditional scene in that part of the world. I guess that the politics have now changed.
I also suggested a visit to the New Straits Times to see how a ‘liberal’ authoritarian Government is handling the crisis. e.g. keeping the public informed of places to avoid e.g. Churches, handing out four surgical masks to each household (to be worn by those coughing or sneezing etc), strict home quarantines supervised by Internet checks. (I’m not quite sure how this works but Skype land-line calls are part of the system.)
They are also trying to dissuade people from stockpiling food basics/masks/etc in their homes. So do not run down your Brexit stockpile just yet!
I once read a scientific article that linked the rise in MRSA and other hospital-based nasties to modern hospital beds. The old design of beds had brass rails and other brass fittings everywhere. Even putting aside the activity of keeping these shiny, brass itself is poisonous to most bacteria and I would guess at least disruptive to most viruses.
I have just thought for a very good reason for spraying the pavements etc – spitting. Chinese males are inveterate ‘spitters’. I can give no rationale for their habit, but it is actually quite noticeable and not subject to any local/state controls. Females do not generally share this disgusting habit.
I never went to Wuhan so I cannot comment on their current habits. When I was a regular visitor >20 years ago to other parts of China no streets were washed in other cities – it would have annoyed too many occupants due missing window panes etc.
+1 for Sugru. Its only downside is that it is damned expensive for what you get (totally unsuitable for BIG jobs due cost, in this situation you need to use messy oogu! Oogu translation: corn starch is cornflour, and Wilkos clear silicon does the trick. I have used acrylic paint as a colouring agent but it cuts working time to a couple of minutes at most )
White sugru is easy to use, black sugru can give you dirty fingers for a bit as I think they use carbon black as their filler.
Nice cups printer Dan!
Spraying the street is weird unless they believe a pest/flea is an intermediate host. They state that they have positively identified the intermediate host and will be annoncing it shortly. The endangered species, the pangolin is one speculation which would be a just revenge on those Chinese who ate pangolins for their own health!
I agree with the need to encourage high flyers, all too often they are allowed to get bored and disruptive.
Although imo the US Middle School years are a very boring grind of the basics, they allow the more prestigious colleges such as John Hopkins to set pre-SAT exams which are specifically aimed at identifying high flyers and through these they award college entrances/scholarships at an almost too young 14 years old.
I wish we had a similar talented youth program in the UK.
Just to throw in another bit of extraneous data, I would guess that the good doctors name is actually Li Wen Liang. If you are a member of the Li clan iirc the second name tells another clan member how he fitted into the genealogical family tree and the one or two names of his father as there is a moderately rigid sequence to the way males are named. In the more westernised areas the (generally two) given names are often chosen to make them easy to form into a western name that gweilos (big nosed white ghost men) can pronounce.
“I would name it after Dr Li Wenliang”
Probably a bit too difficult for general use in the West. Li is his family/clan name so maybe WenLi or LiWen might be better.
The physical builds on these devices is normally OK and reflects the improvements that have continued to be made in the electronics sector. The ‘idiotic’ aspect is the total disregard for security and near impossibility of being able to update the SoC.
+1 for Dave’s comments. In gaming terms he will probably find the GPU sets the limits, but better GPUs also mean a bigger psu so the price goes up. On this Toms Hardware comparison the 1650 has a score of about 70. Trying to hold down power consumption and improving scores also means more money.
A company that does ‘nice’ builds is Chillblast, and this link shows their gaming offers.
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