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Would someone please edit the world? "This coronavirus doesn't discriminate." What a sadly pathetic and trite phrase. As if flu and all the other viruses did discriminate.
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Actually it has been very discriminating at this early stage.. Jet Setters, The Rich and the powerful, who travel to exotic winter retreats or people the pages of Hello! Magazine have been preferentially hit.
 
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Chinooks. Looked up and saw one flying pretty close by and very low. Seemed to be heading towards Milford Haven.
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Now we aren't driving, perhaps they are thinking of using all that surplus crude oil to incinerate all the bodies.

Everyone's been worrying about insufficient hospitals, ventilators, medical staff etc., but what about crematoria, grave diggers, cemetary space and the like? They'll never be able to cope either if this gets very bad.
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Actually it has been very discriminating at this early stage.. Jet Setters, The Rich and the powerful, who travel to exotic winter retreats or people the pages of Hello! Magazine have been preferentially hit.
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I did actually write another bit saying it is society/economy/etc. that discriminates - not the virus.

Not sure what happened? Looks like I dropped it while posting.
 
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Now we aren't driving, perhaps they are thinking of using all that surplus crude oil to incinerate all the bodies.

Everyone's been worrying about insufficient hospitals, ventilators, medical staff etc., but what about crematoria, grave diggers, cemetary space and the like? They'll never be able to cope either if this gets very bad.
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They could dig the graves with a Cat 365, an hour's work will create a hole big enough to take hundreds of bodies.
 
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flecc said:
Now we aren't driving, perhaps they are thinking of using all that surplus crude oil to incinerate all the bodies.

Everyone's been worrying about insufficient hospitals, ventilators, medical staff etc., but what about crematoria, grave diggers and the like? They'll never be able to cope either if this gets very bad.
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Isn't this where JCB should come in? Rather than making ventilators (or not, as the case may be).
 
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They could dig the graves with a Cat 365, an hour's work will create a hole big enough to take hundreds of bodies.
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Isn't this where JCB should come in? Rather than making ventilators (or not, as the case may be).
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Of course I'd already thought of those, it's what the Americans did in the Iraqi desert with all the enemy bodies.

But we don't have lots of convenient space as the increasingly desperate shortage of cemetary space in normal times shows. Once the bodies are in the ground, that land is out of all other use for a very long time.

So incineration is the norm at like disease times, as we've seen with BSE, foot and mouth disease and swine fever when huge numbers of carcases are burnt en masse.
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Of course I'd already thought of those, it's what the Americans did in the Iraqi desert with all the enemy bodies.

But we don't have lots of convenient space as the increasingly desperate shortage of cemetary space in normal times shows. Once the bodies are in the ground, that land is out of all other use for a very long time.

So incineration is the norm at like disease times, as we've seen with BSE, foot and mouth disease and swine fever when huge numbers of carcases are burnt en masse.
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Feed the fishes? Replenish our North Sea stocks.
 
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The dunkirk spirit is what got us into this mess
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The Dunkirk analogy was made by the Crick Institute chief. He wasn't referring to the British bulldog spirit. He was referring to the fact Dunkirk was pulled off by lots and lots of small efforts coming together, not by use of monolithic resources. The reason Germany has been able to do many more tests is partly because it is using many more small laboratories. The UK approach has been to consolidate tests to one (or a small number) of labs, despite having lots of labs around the country capable and willing to do the work.
 
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So when queuing with two metre gaps to go into the supermarket, leave six metres if the guy in front is wearing a kilt in case he farts.
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You just have to watch for the skirl o' the kilt! :cool:
If he's been on the Whisky you'd better extinguish any cigarettes if you get that close!
 
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