Brexit, for once some facts.
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There are many different measures of what is a bed for the highest level of care, with many names so countries can't easily be compared reliably. Here's list of some of the names:
Acute care beds, Intermediate care (IMCU) beds, Intensive care (ICU) beds, Critical care beds.
Only 11 of the 31 countries in Europe (including the UK) report ICU bed numbers but all report Critical Care Bed numbers and Acute Care bed numbers separately. All of them also report ICU beds as % of acute care beds, so those two are the only accurate comparisons possible.
Here's the France and UK figures, France first, UK second:
Acute care beds: 232,821 . . . . 147,809
ICU beds as % of acute care beds: 3.2% . . . . . 2.8%
So France has 7450 ICU beds, The UK has 4138.
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No.. I don't think it is insane either... . Actually I am in a bit of a quandary... . I acquired an old mid Victorian slate mantle clock ..I am convinced it was a wedding gift to my Great Grandfather . Mid 1860s The escapement is visible from the front . Anyway it sort of worked..in that it would tick tock for a while ,chimes would tingle and then it would stop. Anyway I brought it to a local expert and he worked a little on it, and gave it up as a bad job.. He though there were two many earlier repairs or kludges done. Now it doesn't do anything.
I did recycle a much later slightly smaller slate mantle clock by replacing the worn electric movement ..again a replacement job , with a new electronic radio atomic clock synchronisation movement , and of course its bang on accurate. . My quandary is whether to do the same with this more elaborate massive clock. Part of me is against removing old history , even if it is basically useless ,and part of me is all in favour of the new.
Different definition of ICU?. Perhaps . . I would make a few comments . The UK has been the Western European epicentre for Delta , and distance from the UK slows the time of peak infection rates. And it is Delta which is doing the bulk of the killing still.
that's the same Clive Dix that predicted last May 'Coronavirus will not be circulating in the UK by August '.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/may/08/clive-dix-claims-covid-not-in-uk-by-august-vaccine
Probably why he is ex head of Task Force..
Bet he regrets this prediction.
United Kingdom COVID - Coronavirus Statistics - Worldometer
United Kingdom Coronavirus update with statistics and graphs: total and new cases, deaths per day, mortality and recovery rates, current active cases, recoveries, trends and timeline.
Seems to have stopped updating??
Better protection against COVID-19 for healthcare workers in England must be an immediate priority, says BMA - BMA media centre - BMA
Press release from the BMA.
www.bma.org.uk
I went to my dentist the other day and all the nurses were wearing full face clear plastic visors, with a close fitting border, and, I imagine, a battery powered pump/fan/filter to maintain clean airflow.Better protection against COVID-19 for healthcare workers in England must be an immediate priority, says BMA - BMA media centre - BMA
Press release from the BMA.
Seemed quite a decent approach for some medical workers. Price? Surely less than the cost of fully disposable PPE, and staff getting ill, ett.
My doomsday prep continues - no need to buy bread, when I have Kefir to use instead of yeast to bake my own... Here's a Kefir sourdough breadbun, baked in a cast iron ramekin, then toasted with butter while held against a cast iron pan:
...yum, bit burned at the edges. The breadmaker does a much better job.
...yum, bit burned at the edges. The breadmaker does a much better job.
The Doctor who objected to my vaping the other day, as I was waiting for my vaxx appointment, was wearing one of those utterly useless looking flimsy thin blue face diapers. I was double masked with KN95.
I don't think I've had any reaction at all to this Pfizer vaccine, which is worrying. I did feel a bit more tired than usual night before last, but that could just have been the annual resurgence of Xmas depression disorder.
From my point of view, other than as a prop, might as well go in the bin if you replace the movement with an electronic one.
I had virtually none to the Pfizer/BioNTech which was used as a booster for me.
Just slightly more discomfort when injected and around the injection site for the next few days. Only an observation, not an issue.
The very slight discomfort at the injection site lasted only two days. Maybe swabbing with isopropyl afterwards helped avoid a mild skin infection? I really don't like the idea of bacteria resting on my skin, being driven deep within by means of a very thin metal tube... Or nasties streaming in through a recently torn through aperture. I'm a swabber until I read reasoned justification from the anti-swab camp, I think.
no one i know has had 1 jab lolHas Soundwave's Mum Heatwave, been on at him to get vaxxed?
Coronavirus vaccination teams could go door-to-door under new plans
Trial which had been carried out in Suffolk could be expanded across the whole country
www.gloucestershirelive.co.uk
That reminds me - must replace the 10 year battery again on my decades old Casio Databank watch. For much needed drama, you have to touch the case with the positive battery side using a wire, to resuscitate it. Disappointingly, the case was only coated with steel; some mysterious alloy has been revealed at the edges where the steel wore through. Maybe I'll use an electroplating kit. For a digital watch, it does seem to lose time far too much.
A rye+mostly wholewheat+a little French white made without yeast using a Sekowa Special Baking Ferment.
On the peel - in case it isn't clear.
I really like the effect some rye has on flavour, texture and toasting quality. The colour of the toasted areas is much redder than with other grains.
WOW!!!
Nice job! Proper sourdough bread looks complicated (I can't do it), but you get bread you can actually digest properly and gain maximum nutrients from.