Have just heard an interview on Austrian TV with a German Virologist Christian Drosten. Both fascinating & sensible, which makes a change ATM
Carinthia.xx
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…but just how far away?? I am reminded of something in a book I first encountered when I was about 13 (I think it was published in 1961) called “Lady Luck” I recently got the Kindle version, and sure enough there it was:
“There are more than 10**19 molecules in a cubic centimeter of gas under normal conditions; and Sir James Jeans pointed out that when anyone draws a breath it is highly probable that it contains some of the molecules of the dying breath of Julius Caesar.”
Weaver, Warren. Lady Luck: The Theory of Probability (Dover Books on Mathematics) . Dover Publications. Kindle Edition.
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That’s fine: don’t think it was coronavirus that did for him.
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H2O2 Brute?
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Didn’t he die from loss of blood?
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Though not, as far as we know, custard-related
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Brilliant, Joe
Carinthia.xx
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Oh, out of the mouths of babes from Chesterfield.
A tad more info ca be found on BBC Wales news on the BBC website.
It appears that Betsi (not the owd girl herself, but the Health Board) DECIDED not to use a counting system specifically introdced across all Welsh Boards for this very purpose. Some small, senior I assume, group looked at it & said “naah, not for us”. During 5 years under special measures.
Maybe after 5 years, special ain’t so special.
How inept are these people ?
Out of 10 ?
BBC News - Coronavirus: Virus deaths error blamed on system ‘glitch’
“Betsi Cadwaladr decided not to use that system and used a different system. That’s why there has been a glitch in the process which has now been corrected.”
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“Eleventy!”
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We bees watched ‘Contagion’, this arvo. Why on earth were questions not asked after this film’s showing in 2011 but, also, not answered?
Soo xx
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To be honest, yer bees have been asking the questions, but lots of people didn’t respond. We are quite small and insignificant.
Soo xx
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Well, clearly, questions must be posited to be answered, so I am an idiot. Meh.
Soo xx
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My Optician’s receptionist watched it a fortnight ago & scared herself silly
Carinthia.xx
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Must be a bit of a time lag thang, Carinthia.
Soo xx
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I saw it shortly after it was released. On a packed transatlantic flight.
Not the best choice when breathing recirculated air for seven hours …
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But can you be sure she saw it clearly ? Gurt big letter 'A’s are all well & good, but it’s the bottom line which matters
It has the small print on it
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This is an attempt to infect the lot of you with a novel earworm, or at least a segment thereof.
“All because some bastard
Fancied bat tartare”.
Off you go…
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The extended version. Has potential to offend/depress.
All because some bastard fancied bat tartare
And Johnson is a wanker*, look at where we are!
It’s got so we can’t sleep at night
And less because of virus - fright
Than the economy
Than the economee…
*not often enough, imo
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Now this idea I like. I don’t care if it’s daft, I like it a lot…
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Oh bugger! I’ve done what Joe did yesterday and posted that in the wrong thread, i intended to put it in the Viral Doom one. Please feel free to move it, someone who can.
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