I've seen here in the UK they are dropping the requirement for two docs to section someone to one, and there's been a doc at the press conferences for both for BJ and Trump - could be a ratings coup for the medical profession to do it live on TV
Brexit, for once some facts.
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Good to see Oldgroaner is in self isolation..................and not before time
I'm not believing that, OG knows how to spell "miserable".
In the Times
Not a good start Boris will appear on his tombstone
But not before it appears on thousands of others
Not a good start Boris will appear on his tombstone
But not before it appears on thousands of others
Should be in the same mass graves as everyone else.In the Times
Not a good start Boris will appear on his tombstone
But not before it appears on thousands of others
Not only were you right in posting that, they are even saying, without the slightest pretence otherwise:
Olympics president Yoshiro Mori says the biggest concern is the cost of cancelling the games.
Canada already out, NZ likely to follow.
Earlier today, Canada said it would not send athletes to Tokyo Olympics, New Zealand said it would consider boycotting the games and Australia told its olympic athletes to prepare for the games to be held next year, in 2021 – all in the wake of Japan’s prime minister, Shinzo Abe, saying postponement could be an option.
big money or not, they should postpone the Olympics until treatments and vaccine are available.
Wholly agreed. That they tried to put off the decision for four weeks was itself an awful decision.
Surely better to cancel/defer now than continue? Makes me wonder whether they were trying to force the situation where the actions of others force the issue. Contractual liability issues?
I think the organisers were hoping that the warm and wet weather in Japan in July and August (similar to hot and wet weather in Vietnam in the last couple of months) is going to reduce drastically infection. That's also the model that our team @ Imperial College London predicted. The rate of new cases in July/August would drop down to about March levels.
A Chinese study found that CORVID is most infectious when the average outside temperature is 8.7% and humidity around 50%. The virus becomes unstable in high humidity.
The real danger is when the cold weather returns in December.
A Chinese study found that CORVID is most infectious when the average outside temperature is 8.7% and humidity around 50%. The virus becomes unstable in high humidity.
The real danger is when the cold weather returns in December.
This summarizes today's forecast very accurately.
On the Olympics. It's madness they haven't been postponed (especially the torch session somebody mentioned earlier). It's good to keep them in a 4 year cycle based on leap years ... why not postpone till 2024?
Here is an important message from the First Minister of Scotland.
A few comments:
But just how are the athletes supposed to train? And coaches travel to athletes, or vice versa.
Many of the organisational staff such as judges are older (having become distinguished within their sports).
Infectivity of coronavirus is, surely, relative not absolute? Might be lower in other conditions but not lower enough to make it safe.
It might prove impossible to complete preparations if Japan is in lockdown.
The airline systems have to reboot themselves to be able to transport that vast numbers around the world.
And now the Government wants to charge for Covid 19 treatment??
Hidden away in the emergency laws is the Death knell of the NHS
Hidden away in the emergency laws is the Death knell of the NHS
Not being deliberately awkward, but where is the death knell?And now the Government wants to charge for Covid 19 treatment??
Hidden away in the emergency laws is the Death knell of the NHS
I suspect it is in the quote .. "charging for treatment " , not confined to corona
Why didn't you read it?
"Charging for treatment , not limited to where there's a high number of Coronavirus cases"
That is clear enough for anybody
Yesterday, why did the UK Deputy Chief Medical Officer say the gov't is not concerned with how many cases we have, only reducing deaths. And that all of this is based on 'solid science'. What science? Why do German and American and S.Korean scientists see this differently?