Corona Virus Treatment

God Bless America

 

In the U.S. (according to their national statistics) there is no law that says employees must be paid when they are off work - even for holidays. So a quarter of the working population don't take holidays - even when they do get given holiday time off. If you don't take holiday time off, you lose it! Over 50% of workers never use all their holiday allowance!

This is a problem over here for small businesses and for the self employed.

If you're self-employed and don't work then you have no money coming in.

If you're an employer and have to pay staff when they're not producing income then your business can go to the wall and all your employees will be out of work.

Currently employees in the UK are paid for 11%-12% of the year whilst not working. This is calculated on 28 days Statutory holidays plus 4 days sick (office of national statistics). So an employer needs to calculate that an average week of pay for an employee's work actually costs over 10% more than it shows on the pay packet (do they still have pay packets? ).

A lot of small businesses fail to take this into account when setting up and end up going bust.

So, if you add another two weeks self-isolation there can be disastrous effects on employment.

Add to that the major drop in business in some sectors (tourism in particular) then you have an even bigger burden.

 

This whole thing is still being blown way out of perspective. So far, we have just short of 120 people in the country confirmed as having the virus, and one has died. Whilst very sad for the family of the lady that has passed away, it has been stated clearly that she had underlying health problems and had been in and out of hospital before catching the virus.

How many people die from the flu each year? 2017/2018 winter saw nearly 30,000 die here in the UK due to flu or related to flu.

Coronavirus cannot survive above 59ºc (138º Armandii or fahrenheit as it is sometimes known ), so good old hot water with soap should help immensely; UV kills it too, so now that the sun is getting going, that will help too. The rest seems to be down to normal hygiene and luck.

On the point of temperature - is our current push to use less energy and so on part of the problem here? Washing machines run at cooler and cooler temperatures, so those towels, blankets and clothes are often washed at 30º or even 20º; dishwashers now default to a 40º 'Eco' program when you switch them on, and you have to manually choose a higher temperature.

There was a case (I believe Germany) years ago where there was a hospital that had an outbreak of some virus or other on a grand scale,and it was traced back to the washing machines where the bacteria and viruses were thriving in the damp and not too warm environment.

 

We have our washing machine set to wash at 40 degrees. That's a compromise between efficiency and caution. The efficiency part is that it's the quickest wash and has the fastest spin speed, and we don't have any dirty clothes. The caution is that under 40 degrees the machines can clog up easier with any grease/body oils etc.

The dishwasher is set at 50 degrees.

 

You can of course change the temperatures, but how many people do? Our dishwasher always comes on in Eco mode each time by default, no way to stop it doing so

 

Coronavirus Update (Live): 100,307 Cases and 3,408 Deaths from COVID-19 Wuhan China Virus Outbreak - Worldometer

Don't know how accurate everything is obviously but has some stats etc on mortality rate and cases around the world

 

Which is odd as that sounds like verbal diarrhoea!

 

Which it is. So don't get near him otherwise you may catch it!

 

And yet, currently at least, it is proving to be nowhere near as bad as flu.