Corona Virus Treatment

So many things will have to change...I don’t think there will ever be a ‘normal’ as we knew it, in some ways that will be a good thing but in other ways a bad thing @roders.
My friend is a GP he does most of his appointments via video link, has done for 18 months or so...I think that will become normal practice after this, I don’t know how I feel about that to be honest??

 

Me too. Although for any teacher who has been doing home-schooling remotely they may well be hopping that "schooling from home" becomes the norm so that they don't have a whole classroom of brats to have to corral

Good idea. I, and my kids, were privately educated. Each time Labour (or anyone else) wants to shut down private schools, or curtail them by putting lead weights around their neck, I shudder.

What needs to happen is for the state system to come up to the level of the private sector such that private isn't needed, not drag everything down to lowest common denominator.

 

Of course (now you say it ) hadn't thought of that

My kids whilst at Uni had all their lectures available online. Very handy for revision and the odd occasion when they were too poorly to attend (any lecture first thing in the morning I expect!!)

But that then meant "zero attendance" so in #1 daughter's case the "online" version was only available to people who had attended, or got a sick-but-not-hungover pass

 

Roads around here - this is what it's all about:

 

Ambulance arrived with blues and twos 4 doors away this afternoon. Paramedics wearing white suits, face masks and visors. After a while they came out having taken off that gear, perhaps to bag it, and moved their ambulance for a second one that arrived later, was there a short while, then left. Paramedics from first ambulance spent short time speaking to relatives of person taken away then left. I assume they have 'dirty' abulances that don't require deep cleaning every time they transport somebody in them.

But what gets me is that several neighbours gathered in a garden opposite, all standing in a close huddle. One was a grandchild of the person taken away who regularly visits, others were somebody in remission from cancer who helps with deliveries to another neighbour with severe health problems who's self isolating, her husband who works for the same employer as the grandchild [1], and the owner of the house who's wife has COPD and has recentley returned home after several weeks in hospital and has children and grandchildren from at least 2 other households still visiting, including carers several times a day [2].

Whatever's happening in parks, these people are as much of a risk.

[1] When we walked past where they worked this morning, they were several people at the back of a vehicle 0.8m apart, and others were unloading stuff from a vehicle whilst others picked it up.

[2] The carers we know who looked after my in-laws are taking rigorous precautions, but if other family members of vulnerable people are inviting other households round for child day care, barbeques, hot tub sessions, etc., into the house, there is no hope for people receiving care.


EDIT: Found out it was 3 ambulances that attended, maybe they used it for dome 'staff training' getting ready for the forthcoming peak.

 

I thought that kind of thing was going to stop during this crisis.
It's a stupid enough idea at the best of times.

 

I’d just like to say this morning to all please stay safe, to all who are ill or have lost a loved one we are thinking of you in our hearts.

 

Hear hear

 

Our airports will close the 9th through the 13th (except for repatriation, military flights, etc) during our period of staying within our home county.

What concerns me is the burying of the deceased. ... 1,400 reported in France yesterday alone! Does the virus stay within the coffin? I myself want a cremation ... would it not be best to cremate these unfortunate souls.