COVID-19 — Coronavirus

[ultimateharold]

Mainly Gav, it's about how they work in a clinical setting, so you're not gonna fully fix one at home. Just wear it sensibly I guess, and don't think the barrier is fully stopping owt getting in or out.

 

[BlueAnorak]

Or maybe just leave them in fresh air/sunlight for 3 days ?

If your just reusing them yourself then sure.
As bacteria from your mouth can live much longer than that then for general purpose reuse it has to be Ozone and/or strong UV light

A UV-c light that generates ozone can do the job at home in 45 mins. I bought my dad an ederson screw in lamp and a UV bulb. Works a treat.

 

[BlueAnorak]

I wonder how many lives have been lost due to the DHSC, PHE and NHS mantra that face masks or cloth face coverings don't work because they don't protect the wearer?
The collected research is now clear, they do work in confined areas where 20% of virus transmissions occur.
The point, as anyone from the far east will tell you is that they stop you passing disease to others and reduce particulate matter deposited on surfaces.
Apparently Boris will change the advice on Sunday to include wearing face masks in confined spaces, alongside current advice of rigorous hand washing and hand sanitization.
Better late than never I guess.

 

[johnnytapia]

Sorry missed the start of the briefing

No dramatic overnight changes in lockdown

Stick to the rules over the weekend

Powis: 4.649 new cases over last day - but says spread of virus decreasing in the community.

People in UK hospitals with the virus down from 14,346 to 11,788 in last week

Eustice: 31,241 total deaths in all settings - up 626 from yesterday.

Testing still below daily 100,000 target, at 97,029

Eustice: Says day-to-day fluctuations in testing numbers is normal, but important to have "ambitious" targets.

The government has failed to hit its 100k target for several days in a row and plans to up that goal to 200,000.

Powis: 'R number' will vary from place to place and at different times, but vital to keep it below 1 to avoid exponential growth of virus

Eustice: McDonald's drive-ins "made for" social distancing, expects more such fast food businesses to reopen outlets in coming weeks

Powis: Health authorities will start to publish data on people with autism and mental health problems who've died with the virus.

Why are we still sending positive patients into care homes ? We are testing them before they go into care homes,outbreaks from discharges not showing up in data,lots of support for carers on infection control

Public must be 'realistic' over loosening of lockdown

More than a million food parcels delivered


626 is still a huge number,please stick to the rules people

Please stick to the rules - unless you want to celebrate VE day because ¨it means so much to you because you went through it¨.

 

[Chippy_boy]

Ha, unfortunately not. Give me a few minutes, I'll try and find the part and post it here.

Here we go - download and start at 35 mins.
https://www.theskepticsguide.org/podcasts/episode-771


Here's the link they give also..
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2020-04-gamma-ineffective-sterilizing-n95-masks.html

Don't know what the big deal is about reusing a mask. The virus cannot stand temperatures about 75C for very long, so just stick thing in the oven at say 90C for an hour and everything is dead as disco.

 

[sir baconface]

Pretty much the entire contents of the old peoples home across the road from me are having a nice sit down and chat outside today for VE day, about 20 of them. Clearly they have "attempted" social distancing by putting the chairs apart from each other, but they are realistically about 2 feet from each other and all leaning in to hear what the person next to them is saying. Luckily there hasn't been any news of care homes being an issue in this pandemic so it should all be fine...

Touchy-freely post of the day :-(

 

[BLUEMATT23]

14 day quarantine suggested now.
Which is good but rather late.
However this will spell disaster for the aviation and tourism sector, a sector the government is consistently ignoring.
Nobody will booking late summer breaks now.

 

[robbieh]

14 day quarantine suggested now.
Which is good but rather late.
However this will spell disaster for the aviation and tourism sector, a sector the government is consistently ignoring.
Nobody will booking late summer breaks now.

So we are now adopting a policy that Singapore, Korea, NZ and others implemented at the beginning.

 

[BLUEMATT23]

So we are now adopting a policy that Singapore, Korea, NZ and others implemented at the beginning.

Correct only in this stupid country
You couldn't make it up

 

[Gabriel]

14 day quarantine suggested now.
Which is good but rather late.
However this will spell disaster for the aviation and tourism sector, a sector the government is consistently ignoring.
Nobody will booking late summer breaks now.

Think there may be problems attracting people to harvest as well. We’ll probably see the military picking fruit next...