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Are you any better/worse in general than yesterday? mine definitely seems worse in the evenings so could just be a thing i guess, seem to start out ok in the morning but gradually get worse through the day. Thankfully it is much better than it was but still isn't right 7 days now after the worst of it last wednesday.

Brmingham players on more than 6k per week are only taking 50% of their wages from next month to keep the non playing staff employed & paid. Payment is just being defered & the other 50% will be paid back later in the year in 4 installments if/when football resumes.

Had some blue ones like that when i was in Madrid 20 odd years ago basically just soleless moccasins. Most of the floors were tiled so great for sliding about in

For those concerned about MOT, looks like you don't have to worry for a bit

That video has nothing on the guy with one arm eating a frog .......... You have been warned, the link below has a video of a guy "eating" a live frog, it is not pleasant. https://twitter.com/Kenny_UK_/status/1242597873142968320

He does a lot of stuff for talksport whenever italian football is discussed but Always seemed a decent enough sensible bloke. One of those like Tim vickery for south american sport/life, & guillem balague (spain), Todd Macklin (Canada/us) that seem to pop up on every radio/tv show whenever someone from a certain place is needed

Good luck chap, Honestly if you are struggling to form sentences without gasping for breath just get yourself to hospital. I know it goes against all the advice but don't wait for an ambulance, you'll be waiting hours. just get someone to drive you there & run in and tell them that you are in the car & need to be seen now. I know respiritatory issues are not going to help but the one slight thing you have in your favour here is you already know what is good/bad/very bad for you as far as breathing goes rather than getting completely freaked out at the first signs of shortness of breath so if it is starting to get towards the very bad end then start making plans to shift yourself asap

Seems like they are paying people for the hours worked in march, then staff to be furloughed as the business is closed, next payment will be the 80% promised by the government next month. Seems pretty much the same as every other business that has been forced to close. Sure the guys a cock but don't really see an awful lot wrong here, If people want to get another job in the meantime to try and earn more money rather than being furloughed then feel free to do so and if you want to come back when we are open you will be first in line.

the only difference between yesterday & today is a few more shops are closed, & most of them were closing last night anyway

Maybe this guy is actually a genius https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-8143727/High-temperatures-humidity-significantly-slow-spread-coronavirus.html As the weather grew warmer and more humid in 100 Chinese cities researchers at Beihang University and Tsinghua University found that the transmission rate of COVID-19 fell. 'High temperature and high relative humidity significantly reduce the transmission of COVID-1, the study authors wrote.

surprising amount of things that can currently stay open, Evans cycles are staying open despite having a huge online business & seems that they are perfectly entitled to, In fact so important are they that they make the list twice. https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/874732/230320_-_Revised_guidance_note_-_finalVF.pdf Supermarkets and other food shops, health shops, pharmaciesincluding non-dispensing pharmacies, petrol stations, bicycle shops, home and hardware shops,laundrettes and dry cleaners, bicycle shops, garages, car rentals,pet shops, corner shops, newsagents, post offices, and banks Nearly every job on there is minimum wage, with plenty of zero hour contracts thrown in. Who would have thought that the little people are the most important Think boris must have one of these posters on his wall with his exercise/bicycle obsession

keep hawksbee & jacobs. Enjoy their show but that's all i listen to on there now

morrisons starting food boxes £35, seem to remember suggesting this a week or so ago... https://www.morrisons.com/food-boxes/ Things to expect inside this box Our boxes contain a selection of items based on our current availability of products, therefore we are unable to specify exact contents of each box. You will however receive a variety of different foods in each box. Typically this box should feed 2 adults for one week A typical box may include: Canned baked beans, soup and pasta sauceMilkDairy products such as butter and cheeseBreadRice and pastaMeat products, such as sausage, bacon and cooked meatVegetables, such as potatoes, carrots and onionsFresh meat such as chicken or beefEssential household items

Honestly not the best person to check this with as any sort of measure. I barely sleep, never have. Lucky to get more than 4 hours sleep per day. Can't say I have noticed much difference once I am asleep but do seem to be waking up earlier although I would usually put this down to it being lighter in the morning

Quite odd isn't it, seems to be a constant almost dull ache where your heart is, wouldn't say it is pain but very aware of something feeling restricted & not right. I usually hurtle about at a pace that would win any Olympic speed walking competition & run up & down the stairs 3 or 4 at a time. Have forgotten a few times & gone bounding up the stairs as usual only to really wish I hadn't once I get to the top. I guess both seemingly having the same does at least pretty much confirm that we both have it unless we have somehow both managed to get an oddly specific unrelated chest infection at the same time as this which would seem unlikely. A dab of vicks seemed to help a bit when I went to bed puffing a bit last night. Join the club & do what they are telling you seems to be the best thing, stay home where possible & take it easy. Good chance to catch up on some tv/movies/books.

Yep, Actually looks pretty sensible. Due to the low quality of the photo it is hard to identify the exact number of people but appears to be somewhere between 150-200 spread out over a large area. That many people in a supermarket at once seems like a fairly low number under normal circumstances. Sure people in huge queues that go completely around a large carpark isn't great but it looks pretty responsible & easy to manage to let 20/30 in at a time & once they are past the first aisle let another group in. Would all be in & out in an hour or so without any need for mass congregations/scrums at any one point

Better than i was but by no means completely better. Seem to get out of breath very easily just walking about the house and still short of breath & struggling for any sort of deep breath on a reasonably regular basis despite not doing much other than sitting about for 90% of the weekend. Don't feel like i am in any immediate danger or anything but breathing is more of an issue that it should be. Honestly i would feel more relief if i had actually been tested to confirm that i had actually had it, Same with my wife who had cold/flu/fever symptoms for a few days but that was it. No idea if she had it or not. I am kinda 95% sure but what happens when i need to go out to the shops in 10 days ro so if it was a coincidental chest infection or something & i end up getting it anyway.

Not usually much of a fan of my garden as it tends to make me sneeze/give me hayfever but feel rather lucky to have it at the moment. Have sat out reading a book for a couple of hours today & other than a few neighbours shouting to each other over a few gardens about their various coughs & colds it has been a nice quiet day in the sun & fresh air. In all honesty someone telling to me to stay at home & do nothing and they will pay me to do so is pretty much my idea of a perfect life so i am quite happy to oblige.

If they think there are going to be 10,000 nhs staff that have not previously had or been diagnosed with covid-19 by the time it gets around to May i think they may well be disappointed

https://www.businessinsider.com/coronavirus-symptoms-loss-of-smell-taste-covid-19-anosmia-hyposmia-2020-3?r=US&IR=T A sudden loss of smell — known as anosmia or hyposmia — could be a symptom of the coronavirus, even if patients experience no other symptoms, according to leading rhinologists in the UK. Evidence from South Korea, China, and Italy suggests that many patients with COVID-19 may have experienced a loss of smell without any other symptoms. The British Association of Otorhinolaryngology calls on the authorities to advise anyone with a loss of smell or taste to self-isolate. Young people could be more likely to carry the disease without presenting the more commonly recognised symptoms of fever and coughing, they believe. The linked website seems to be dead/very slow to load https://www.entuk.org/loss-sense-smell-marker-covid-19-infection

One of the few articles that seems to be coming at it from the this is a massive over reaction side : As usual with the mail the comments underneath make for some interesting reading https://hitchensblog.mailonsunday.co.uk/2020/03/peter-hitchens-is-shutting-down-britain-with-unprecedented-curbs-on-ancient-liberties-really-the-bes.html#comments We are warned of supposedly devastating death rates. But at least one expert, John Ioannidis, is not so sure. He is Professor of Medicine, of epidemiology and population health, of biomedical data science, and of statistics at Stanford University in California. He says the data are utterly unreliable because so many cases are going unrecorded. He warns: ‘This evidence fiasco creates tremendous uncertainty about the risk of dying from Covid-19. Reported case fatality rates, like the official 3.4 per cent rate from the World Health Organisation, cause horror and are meaningless.’ In only one place – aboard the cruise ship Diamond Princess – has an entire closed community been available for study. And the death rate there – just one per cent – is distorted because so many of those aboard were elderly. The real rate, adjusted for a wide age range, could be as low as 0.05 per cent and as high as one per cent. As Prof Ioannidis says: ‘That huge range markedly affects how severe the pandemic is and what should be done. A population-wide case fatality rate of 0.05 per cent is lower than seasonal influenza. If that is the true rate, locking down the world with potentially tremendous social and financial consequences may be totally irrational. It’s like an elephant being attacked by a house cat. Frustrated and trying to avoid the cat, the elephant accidentally jumps off a cliff and dies.’ Original John Ioannidis article from a week ago https://www.statnews.com/2020/03/17/a-fiasco-in-the-making-as-the-coronavirus-pandemic-takes-hold-we-are-making-decisions-without-reliable-data/ The data collected so far on how many people are infected and how the epidemic is evolving are utterly unreliable. Given the limited testing to date, some deaths and probably the vast majority of infections due to SARS-CoV-2 are being missed. We don’t know if we are failing to capture infections by a factor of three or 300. Three months after the outbreak emerged, most countries, including the U.S., lack the ability to test a large number of people and no countries have reliable data on the prevalence of the virus in a representative random sample of the general population. This evidence fiasco creates tremendous uncertainty about the risk of dying from Covid-19. Reported case fatality rates, like the official 3.4% rate from the World Health Organization, cause horror — and are meaningless. Patients who have been tested for SARS-CoV-2 are disproportionately those with severe symptoms and bad outcomes. As most health systems have limited testing capacity, selection bias may even worsen in the near future. The one situation where an entire, closed population was tested was the Diamond Princess cruise ship and its quarantine passengers. The case fatality rate there was 1.0%, but this was a largely elderly population, in which the death rate from Covid-19 is much higher.

don't think that guys maths is right, can't just average out the whole year and split it evenly every month, There will be large variancies month to month & no time to plan for additional seasonal stock which would usually happen at xmas/easter/summer etc, Also there are vast quantities of very specific items being purchased in numbers that are completely unprecedented. Sure, people need to buy more of everything if they are not leaving the house and eating all meals at home etc but that should not strip shelves completely of multiple products for weeks. People are panic buying & hoarding there is no doubt about that.

similar interview here although the doc talks for 30 mins https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0877mb2 "We're pleading - please stay indoors" - A&E Dr Al called 5 Live Nolan.