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@nzzp said in Coronavirus - Overall/Rest of the World:
@dogmeat nice work,
I just kegged a NEIPA, with another 35L ready for the boys at the weekend. Can't wait to work from home too... overdue to do another brisket.
I didn't realise I was a closeted gay man until just now
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@dogmeat said in Coronavirus - Overall/Rest of the World:
I've made another 20 litres of beer, got three more bags of charcoal and have a lamb and half a beast in the freezer.
I'm ready to ā¦.workā¦ from home.
You sound ready to lead the charge on the BBQ/food thread
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@Old-Samurai-Jack We are pretty bad for diabetes (about 2x the rate of UK). China's age adjusted rate is even higher than ours. Not sure of it in the elderly population (lot of smokers though).
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@Catogrande said in Coronavirus: should I be panicking yet?:
It's difficult for them to pass on interest rate cuts for fixed rate lending, over and above the fact that it's fixed rate The lenders will have borrowed long at a fixed rate and then leveraged that to their borrowers. It will take time for the lenders to arrange new long term fixed rate money to offer new borrowers at lower fixed rates. if this is possible at all in the current climate.
Well ANZ have cut fixed ..... others to follow in due course
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@Tim said in Coronavirus - Overall/Rest of the World:
@Old-Samurai-Jack We are pretty bad for diabetes (about 2x the rate of UK). China's age adjusted rate is even higher than ours. Not sure of it in the elderly population (lot of smokers though).
Non insulin diabetics are generally of poorer health because their lifestyle choices got them there. They will be at significant risk
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Quite a good piece on assessing the risk:
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So I flew into Queenstown today from Bali via transit in Sydney. Single temp check at the airport in Bali. No checks in Oz in transit, but that's not surprising.
In Queenstown we had an extra form to complete at arrival in terminal, then they had a couple of nurses advising the self iso procedures. No temperature checks, and no proof required of our self iso plans (we have14 days accom booked here in QT).
Pretty easy to bluff your way through if you planned to ignore the rules.
The worst thing - my 11yr old gets to our accom and realised he has left his phone on the plane. Of course there is no chance of getting someone at the airport on the phone to help find it, and as I'm isolating I can't go back to the airport.
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John Ioannidis on the problems of making big decisions based on crappy data:
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@Tim Made for an interesting read, there are a few things we do know.
In Italy they are at 2,503 deaths and going at around 300 deaths a day due to coronavirus. They have lots of restrictions in place.
A study between 2013-2017 recorded 68,000 deaths from influenza. Or roughly 46 a day on average. And this is with no restrictions in place.In the last year they had 2 million cases of the flu. Now if 2 million people got Corona I wonder what the death count would be.
*https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1201971219303285
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@MajorRage said in Coronavirus - Overall/Rest of the World:
Well that seals it. Iām now officiallly miffed.
IR35 has been canned.
That 30 % pay cut was worth it. Although job security prob not such a bad thing at the moment.
Fucken IR35! All I've heard about for months from Bonesetta. She'd be stoked about that...but of course is now worried her contract is in jeopardy...
I might stay in Manchester.
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@Nepia said in Coronavirus - Overall/Rest of the World:
So I just missed out on TP at the Supermarket this morning ... I have a pack at home but would like to get another just in case one!
Got a bunch of cans of soup etc just in case and they had frozen veggies back so got a couple of 1kg bags.
Bro why are you buying cans of soup? Buy cans of stuff to make soup! Not like you won't have time...
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@JK said in Coronavirus - Overall/Rest of the World:
@Catogrande said in Coronavirus: should I be panicking yet?:
It's difficult for them to pass on interest rate cuts for fixed rate lending, over and above the fact that it's fixed rate The lenders will have borrowed long at a fixed rate and then leveraged that to their borrowers. It will take time for the lenders to arrange new long term fixed rate money to offer new borrowers at lower fixed rates. if this is possible at all in the current climate.
Well ANZ have cut fixed ..... others to follow in due course
For existing borrowers? Surely that would be against the terms of the contract. Also very difficult to justify as interest rates generally have reduced.
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@Bones said in Coronavirus - Overall/Rest of the World:
@Nepia said in Coronavirus - Overall/Rest of the World:
So I just missed out on TP at the Supermarket this morning ... I have a pack at home but would like to get another just in case one!
Got a bunch of cans of soup etc just in case and they had frozen veggies back so got a couple of 1kg bags.
Bro why are you buying cans of soup? Buy cans of stuff to make soup! Not like you won't have time...
Most likely because I'm lazy ... and I hate cooking.
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@voodoo said in Coronavirus - Overall/Rest of the World:
The worst thing - my 11yr old gets to our accom and realised he has left his phone on the plane. Of course there is no chance of getting someone at the airport on the phone to help find it, and as I'm isolating I can't go back to the airport.
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14 days in isolation without his phone?
That boy is in a time machine back to the '90s!
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@Tim said in Coronavirus - Overall/Rest of the World:
John Ioannidis on the problems of making big decisions based on crappy data:
That's an excellent article, Tim.
@chimoaus I tend to think that a major difference between the flu and corona results is that those who are most vulnerable to dying from the flu can get vaccinated and a lot do.
It would be interesting to compare the death rates between 'flu and corona if you removed the people who died from corona who routinely got vaccinated against the flu.
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This is bringing out the best and worst in people.
The village up the road has organised on-line shopping, prescription delivery, dog-walking, visits to safe places, phone calls, etc for those self isolating. Local supermarkets & GP practice have been incredibly helpful. All in 2 days.
Had the carpet fitters in yesterday. They had just finished a big job at a care home in Newquay. The care home has to keep its doors locked as people and visitors were walking in, stealing toilet rolls, masks and other medical supplies. Seriously low-life shit.
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@Chris-B said in Coronavirus - Overall/Rest of the World:
It would be interesting to compare the death rates between 'flu and corona if you removed the people who died from corona who routinely got vaccinated against the flu.
It was said yesterday that 8,000 people die of 'flu in the UK each year.
A "good" outcome for Coronavirus would be around 20,000 deaths.
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Stuff with another shitty article
Fucking. Millenials.
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@canefan Ella got sick. As a 25 year old, the state gave her minimal resources to help her with being sick, because other people needed them much more. Ella lives in a big city with lots of people So lots of people got sick. Ella got better, which proves the state resources weren't required for her.
End article.
My wife was extremely ill a couple of weeks ago when this all started. She hadn't been in contact with anybody, but we still called the NHS 111 and they ended up sending an ambulance over - she was that bad. They were reluctant to take her to isolation, as that is mandatory 14 days as per govt guidelines. After consultation and vitals, they concluded it was more likely influenza than Covid, and she needed to rest in an isolated part of the house.
Subsequently she has got better, and neither the kids or I got it.
We will likely never know what it was.
Can I get a stuff article?
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