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Author Topic: The Coronavirus (COVID-19)  (Read 35109 times)

Alex Atkin UK

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Re: The Coronavirus (COVID-19)
« Reply #285 on: April 05, 2020, 07:37:26 PM »

Amazon seem to be a bit haphazard with their idea of "essential".

Ordered a portable HDD and it was next-day, looking to order a CPU cooler and its saying a week.  ???

Surely if someone is working from home and their CPU cooler dies, its rather important?

In my particular case its because I want to put more CPU cores into Folding at Home but the crappy Intel cooler can't handle it.
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Re: The Coronavirus (COVID-19)
« Reply #286 on: April 05, 2020, 08:34:12 PM »

Sympathies, but I suspect not many people working from home will be buying CPU coolers.   Most will be using company-supplied laptops that are exclusively maintained by the company’s IT dept.   

That was certainly the case when I used to work from home, mid noughties.   I wasn’t even allowed to buy a new battery, had to go through IT.  I would however have been allowed to buy a portable HDD and claim it on expenses, since that wasn’t part of the laptop.
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Re: The Coronavirus (COVID-19)
« Reply #287 on: April 05, 2020, 11:16:31 PM »

Anyone think the 3 week lockdown may be partially lifted next week?

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Re: The Coronavirus (COVID-19)
« Reply #288 on: April 05, 2020, 11:34:13 PM »

Anyone think the 3 week lockdown may be partially lifted next week?

None of us here are remotely qualified to comment on such a question.
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Re: The Coronavirus (COVID-19)
« Reply #289 on: April 06, 2020, 12:02:41 AM »

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Re: The Coronavirus (COVID-19)
« Reply #290 on: April 06, 2020, 01:03:44 AM »

The invasion has come https://www.facebook.com/louise.parker.963/videos/10217285116379502/

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One of the options being touted, for a later stage, is South Korean style population tracking via mobile phone data.  A bit like snoopers’ charter on steroids.  Once testing becomes feasible, it appears that such tracking helps with containment.   

I wonder, would people in UK put up with that?

Personally I have crossed many of my own red lines already.   I’ve signed up with the sleaziest operators of all, the supermarkets.   I’ve signed up with wine merchants, and even disclosed my date of birth.  I have even enabled online banking on my accounts, which I swore I’d never do.

In the light of all that, and given that nobody has any real secrets from the state any more anyway, I’d personally agree in a heartbeat to such tracking.
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Re: The Coronavirus (COVID-19)
« Reply #291 on: April 06, 2020, 01:14:36 AM »

One of the options being touted, for a later stage, is South Korean style population tracking via mobile phone data.

I see one flaw. When did it become compulsory for every person to possess a mobile telephone, the data of which could be tracked?
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Re: The Coronavirus (COVID-19)
« Reply #292 on: April 06, 2020, 02:13:21 AM »

I see one flaw. When did it become compulsory for every person to possess a mobile telephone, the data of which could be tracked?

True, but even my mums ex who refuses to even use BBC iPlayer as he hates technology so much, grudgingly owns a mobile phone.
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Re: The Coronavirus (COVID-19)
« Reply #293 on: April 06, 2020, 07:31:59 AM »

I see one flaw. When did it become compulsory for every person to possess a mobile telephone, the data of which could be tracked?

Interesting question.  Even dumb phones provide some degree of tracking via tower triangulation, but that still leaves the ‘no phone at all’ scenario.

I believe card transactions also provide input to the published  data.  That, for example, would enable fairly accurate tracking of an individual’s movements within London on public transport.
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Re: The Coronavirus (COVID-19)
« Reply #294 on: April 06, 2020, 08:51:31 AM »

Yes they can  :(   the virus is 'zoonotic'  That is a disease that can spread from animals to humans and humans to animals.

Finally, some evidence of spread, to tigers at a zoo.    I don’t regard BBC news as a source of reliable information, but this does sound convincing and worrying...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-52177586
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Re: The Coronavirus (COVID-19)
« Reply #295 on: April 06, 2020, 09:26:48 AM »

None of us here are remotely qualified to comment on such a question.

Sweden's epidemiologist thinks we have gone too far with the lockdown: https://metro.co.uk/2020/04/05/uks-lockdown-gone-far-says-swedens-leading-scientist-12512763/

I'm curious what Dominic Raab will advise later
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Re: The Coronavirus (COVID-19)
« Reply #296 on: April 06, 2020, 10:01:02 AM »

Sweden's epidemiologist thinks we have gone too far with the lockdown: https://metro.co.uk/2020/04/05/uks-lockdown-gone-far-says-swedens-leading-scientist-12512763/

I'm curious what Dominic Raab will advise later

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anders_Tegnell
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Nils Anders Tegnell (born 17 April 1956)[1] is a Swedish physician and civil servant.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_Ferguson_(epidemiologist)
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Neil Morris Ferguson OBE FMedSci (born 1968) is a British epidemiologist[3] and professor of mathematical biology, who specialises in the patterns of spread of infectious disease in humans and animals.

I wouldn’t expect Raab to be unduly influenced by a foreign civil servant when he can have advice from what may well be better qualified, and more impartial, experts with their feet on the ground here at home.


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Re: The Coronavirus (COVID-19)
« Reply #297 on: April 06, 2020, 11:23:59 AM »

Amazon seem to be a bit haphazard with their idea of "essential".

Ordered a portable HDD and it was next-day, looking to order a CPU cooler and its saying a week.  ???

Surely if someone is working from home and their CPU cooler dies, its rather important?

I can assure you almost no-one working from home relies on kit with a replaceable CPU cooler and Amazon sell far fewer of those than they do external storage devices.

People running their own businesses relying on higher performance computing at home perhaps, however they would you'd hope not really on Amazon for spare parts.

People working from home on business kit will have a company supplier or order from anywhere and expense, cost irrelevant.

Amazon's idea of essentials is things like food, toilet paper, paper towels, sanitary products, etc. The idea that they would include IT stuff of any description in the prioritised essentials is a little strange.

You were lucky to see that on next day. Stock was in the right place at the right time.
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Re: The Coronavirus (COVID-19)
« Reply #298 on: April 06, 2020, 11:49:28 AM »

Anyone think the 3 week lockdown may be partially lifted next week?

No. if anything, I suspect it will get tougher before it starts being relaxed.
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Re: The Coronavirus (COVID-19)
« Reply #299 on: April 06, 2020, 11:50:43 AM »

Finally, some evidence of spread, to tigers at a zoo.    I don’t regard BBC news as a source of reliable information, but this does sound convincing and worrying...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-52177586
My daughter also had this info passed on through there 'zoo keepers' network about the Tiger but they also need more info about it to make any conclusions .

A person in our village has come down with the Virus, he and his wife have have been in hospital, he's been sent home but she is in a bad way still in hospital, He foolishly went to a meeting in the next town with a lot of people during lock down, he has been seen walking his dogs around the area knowing he had the virus (very irresponsible  >:D) .

Now the person and there family who looked after this chaps dogs have it, Possible link there is the virus can live up to four hours on the animals fur .  :o

Edit .. The Big cats (Tiger) incident above does seem to an active infection in all of that group at that zoo, all world wide zoo's are being issued with Covid 19 safety advice for the animals.
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