COVID-19 — Coronavirus

[purplenose]

Was always rolls at school but boxes with ready cut sheets of the stuff at my grandads.

 

[SWP's back]

Very interesting article, an interview with Bill Gates from 2018 about his fear for a new global flu like pandemic and his foundation’s work to try and prevent one:

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/04/what-bill-gates-fears-most/559007/

This was the simulation they ran for a strain of Flu with an R0 of about 2.5 and similar fatality rate to Spanish flu

 

[SebastianBlue]

Was always rolls at school but boxes with ready cut sheets of the stuff at my grandads.

That’s because he carefully unwound, cut, stacked, and displayed.

It is a lost art.

 

[SebastianBlue]

Very interesting article, an interview with Bill Gates from 2018 about his fear for a new global flu like pandemic and his foundation’s work to try and prevent one:

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/04/what-bill-gates-fears-most/559007/

This was the simulation they ran for a strain of Flu with an R0 of about 2.5 and 1% fatality rate:

That is a very interesting and prescient article.

I thought this passage was especially pertinent.

Ultimately, Gates thinks that the private sector cannot prepare the world for future epidemics and pandemics on its own. “It’s not like the Gates Foundation is going to own planes or a vaccine factory,” he says. Preparedness depends on “government funding, overwhelmingly.” And such funding must be stable, he argues, rather than rising during each new outbreak and falling once the crisis recedes into memory. “It’s very similar to being, you know, prepared for war,” says Gates.

 

[purplenose]

That’s because he carefully unwound, cut, stacked, and displayed.

It is a lost art.

Always in the outside bog where the big spiders lived.

 

[SebastianBlue]

Always in the outside bog where the big spiders lived.

Have to put it where the best crowds can see it.

 

[squirtyflower]

All chinese restaurants and supermarkets getting closed here in Orihuela Costa.

What about the Italian ones?

 

[purplenose]

Have to put it where the best crowds can see it.

There was always a few squares of the Daily Mail blowing about as well in case of emergency.

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

That’s all well and good but the youth of your day never had the satisfaction of using palm leaves or rag pages!

That’ll change...

Ssh, I’ve just planted a field full of dock leaves. Hoping to retire next year as a result.

 

[SebastianBlue]

What about the Italian ones?

That would just be madness, mate.

Only sensible closures during this phase...