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Legal and within the spirit of the regs. It's legal to go outside with a reasonable excuse. A reasonable excuse is to shop for food. What else you do at the same time is up to you. The objective of the regs is to ensure that physical contact between people is significantly reduced to minimise the sp...

It's concerning that the sympathy from his illness is raising respect for him. I saw a FB post this morning stating that he is the best PM for generations. He Got Brexit Done. For some people that was enough. He was handling the crisis OKish, at least when he realised he had to get serious. He was ...

So, what, his odds are around 50%? I hadn't googled this before.... https://www.theguardian.com/society/2020/mar/28/coronavirus-intensive-care-uk-patients-50-per-cent-survival-rate (oh, that's what the url says. I just skimmed the text) He's the first person I "know" who has ended in hospital, let ...

So, do I stop my 15 year old doing his paper round? It's the only thing that's getting him out of bed. The Guardian is claiming that the virus has a very short life on newsprint because it's so absorbent that it mops up the outer fatty layer and exposes the genetic material. I'd encourage him to ke...

Gearing myself up to GAF if he dies. I have four conflicting responses. He's an extraordinarily unattractive politician who is almost uniquely unfitted for the job he's in. On the other hand he is also someone with an extremely demanding job at the best of times - and now is approaching the worst o...

There do seem to be conflicting stories about demand. Papers are full of accounts from completely overstretched medics. Yet the Nightingale is apparently delaying taking patients because the need isn't there yet (though a cynic might suspect it's actually because they aren't staffed yet). And ICUs ...

Isn't this the Kaffenback that was built starting from the moustache bars? Are you really so fickle?

I'm doing a running training programme which meant I was supposed to be out on two legs today. Instead, since I haven't been out on two wheels for a week or so...
Pretty sure I passed Charlie B going in the opposite direction.

"I'll have a bottle of champagne please. The pink one - Lanson"

"Would you like a receipt?"

My first face to face conversation with someone other than Mrs I for 13 days.

https://xkcd.com/2287/

"We're not trapped in here with the coronavirus. The coronavirus is trapped in here with us."

Randall Munro is a genius.

Henry Marsh in the FT (free to read)

https://www.ft.com/content/00312c48-6e8 ... pe=nongift

News outlets (including my beloved Guardian) are still reporting "deaths rose by the largest single amount yet in one day yesterday " as if that is news. That's not news, that's just the inevitable, unavoidable, new normal for the time being. The news will be if and when, in a week or two, there's ...

Greg wrote: ↑

4 years ago

Anyone read the Ferguson report? Its terrifying.

The Imperial College paper? See upthread. It's hugely reassuring.

The Real Ravenhurst wrote: ↑

4 years ago

Foodie reports that he is feeling much better.

Jolly good.

That does seem to be quite a normal scenario for someone who is basically fit.

I finally got around to reading the famous Imperial College paper on the basis of which Johnson did his u-turns this week. I don't know whether other mathy types have done so? My reading is that if the measures announced by Johnson hold we'll be in a manageable phase within a few weeks, with ICUs no...