Coronavirus Lockdown Chat

Interesting item of news today, that there may be genetic markers for people who suffer badly from covid.

Edit: It is old news.

Science | AAAS

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MikeSh said:
this Covid stuff is just an added complication.
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It's a right pain in the nether regions (or thereabouts)!
I can't visit my mother in hospital - and it sounds as though she's getting more and more confused. I think I might in that damned place. It also appears that the ward itself has been locked down because one patient tested positive for you know what. Therefore nobody is being discharged. Ye gods! At this rate I'll be tearing the rest of my hair out.
 
MikeSh said:
After the procedure she was told to isolate for a week, but talking to her again today this is apparently because her immune system may have been affected by the anaesthetic, etc, so it's not a good time to be infected. So a different reason from before.
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That is not isolating. That is shielding. You isolate to protect against infecting others. You shield to protect against being infected by others.

A common confusion I come across every day in my job, though the the practicalities for me are the same.
 
EEPhil said:
At this rate I'll be tearing the rest of my hair out.
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Be thankful they're not tearing your life down, yet.

They will. Have a think: why did the chancellor have an unprecedented spending review which did not have any account AT ALL as to how the treasury will balance the books?
 
Do you become a troll by trolling trolls? And would you then disappear up your own...? That might be how I became a black hole :(
 
Black Hole said:
Do you become a troll by trolling trolls?
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I would think so. Only you know why you called yourself by that moniker. You'd have had to troll people, go back in time and change your name for your last sentence to be true - maybe. (And don't call him Moniker)
 
It would seem that my exhortation to think blew their minds. One after another after another .......................:rolling:
 
sine24 said:
............and still another.
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OK, I'll bite.
What is so mind blowing about this?
sine24 said:
Have a think: why did the chancellor have an unprecedented spending review which did not have any account AT ALL as to how the treasury will balance the books?
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To most of us it's just obvious, but you seem to think it's something extraordinary. Please explain what is so interesting here because it just looks like another day in Brexitania to me :dunno:
 
MikeSh said:
OK, I'll bite.
What is so mind blowing about this?

To most of us it's just obvious, but you seem to think it's something extraordinary. Please explain what is so interesting here because it just looks like another day in Brexitania to me :dunno:
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Since it is so obvious why is it so hard to answer? Six posters later, still no answer.

But loads of trolling.
 
I wonder what history will make of these words, they could be the dumbest thing ever written:

Because tyranny always enjoys its victims’ widespread support, most people living under it are unaware of their ghastly fate. And so it is with today’s tyranny of hygiene socialism. Believing that Covid-19 lockdown orders, mask mandates, and school closings are necessary to prevent unspeakable loss of life, people obey. This is no time to allow nitpicking about the rule of law, or about concerns with matters other than Covid, to obstruct our leaders’ valiant efforts to save us!

Yet as with all tyranny, the truth will eventually emerge. In the future, people’s eyes will open to the exaggerations, half-truths, distortions, and outright lies used to excuse today’s tyrannical restrictions. Someday people will look back on 2020 and see it as a year in which tyranny darkened the globe.

Our children and grandchildren will shake their heads in amazement that the adults – the “adults” – of 2020 were so credulous as to fall for the hysterical overstatements and the deceits and duplicity used to justify this tyranny. They will be aghast that in 2020 so many reporters, pundits, and politicians swallowed whole and without question the over-the-top predictions of mad scientists such as Neil Ferguson and his Imperial College colleagues. The jaws of our progeny will drop from puzzlement when they ponder the news media’s atrociously poor and biased “reporting” on Covid-19. And our descendants will simply resign themselves to being unable to understand fully how and why we allowed ourselves to be engulfed by such tyranny.

And then our children and grandchildren will pat each other on the back, confidently relieved by their knowing that they will never be so gullible as were those of us in 2020.
 
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