TheDecameron
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“It’s killed by lager”. Same with pork scratchings, so you can pass the bag round.
There are reports of a higher % of younger adults in hospital in the USA due to Covid. Is it mutating ? Or just foolishness...
Some strong evidence emerging that covid 19 can be airborne rather than just droplet/aerosol based (NYT). Anyone still want to get on a tube or go to a pub?
It's bound to be - especially indoors. I've made this analogy previously, but as a kid did you ever watch the fag smoke in the cinema lighting up the projected light beam? Time is critical...
I’ve worked on that assumption since the start which is why I’ve been nowhere aside from a daily cycle ride weather permitting. Even then I time my breathing/hold my breath when passing pedestrians and other cyclists. I always worked in the assumption it was as airborne as the stench of skunk, tobacco or the stinky vape things that pollute the air everywhere these days. Just not worth taking any risks.
Apologies in advance if I am over-sharing, but I still have a really odd after-effect of Covid. In common with many Covid-19 sufferers, I completely lost my sense of smell and taste. We were confirmed Covid positive in late April, and the sense of smell and taste disappeared suddenly, over the space of a morning, within a few days of that, so before the end of April.
The sense of smell (and taste) has been returning, but is nowhere near as sensitive as it was before. I can hardly smell cooking onions, for example, and don't get very much aroma from wine, or hoppy craft beer. But I was surprised yesterday evening, at dusk, when I noticed the smell of the Nicotianas in the garden. So, it's patchy. But the oddest thing, and the reason for this post, is that I can't smell my farts. Nothing, not a hint. Nor do I smell anything when picking up the dog mess after she has toileted, nor my own visits to the loo, for that matter. And it's not that the aroma is muted, there's just no suggestion of it, at all.
I reckon once I can smell my farts again, I'll consider my sense of smell fully returned.
Why wearing a mask is so effective, it prevents this very long range turbulent stream and the virus droplets then fall to the floorThink of exhaling on a cold day and seeing how far the condensate travels...
Can’t ‘like’ it, Hugh, but spot on. Well said.Hancock is a disgrace to his office. He’s stood up in the Commons telling the public that pubs and hairdressers are buzzing again- seconds after enumerating the number of people who have just died or are on mechanical ventilation.
Repeatedly asked if he agrees with Boris Johnson’s disgraceful attack on care home workers as being responsible for the deaths, he brushes it off. Shtum, it’s all about the pubs opening. Similarly asked why the rate of new infections per capita under his watch is nine times higher than in Scotland and the death rate currently six times higher per capita. Nothing, it’s as if it’s someone else’s gig.
This is what populist government looks like in the flesh. A dilute version of Trump’s America. It’s all about the pubs, the package hols and the hairdressers. All about good news stories from Boris. He even named and praised three pubs for shutting after being involved in outbreaks.
Think of exhaling on a cold day and seeing how far the condensate travels...
Blair was the best UK PM for decades. Tell me the most recent you believe better?Iraq war, vaccination, faith schools, Spin, PFI...not looking a great legacy.
Iraq war, vaccination, faith schools, Spin, PFI...not looking a great legacy.
Blair was the best UK PM for decades...
Blair hasn’t been convicted of war crimes. He’s not a war criminal.That's just a statement of fact - he's still a war criminal
Blair hasn’t been convicted of war crimes. He’s not a war criminal.