Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

[Goat]

Some data from Sweden suggesting that blood type might make a difference 80% of 21 autopsies had blood type A+ (~40% of Swiss pop has A+ blood type). Hiding the link to the thread as there is a photo probably best avoided if you are eating.

Spoiler: Lung photo

Wish I knew what blood type I was.

 

[peteblue]

Obviously now out of date, but I find this a remarkably reassuring graph...

 

[zzr45]

Apple, Google ban use of location tracking in contact tracing apps

Apple Inc and Alphabet Inc's Google on Monday said they would ban the use of location tracking in apps that use a new contact tracing system the two are building to help slow the spread of the novel coronavirus.

www.reuters.com

" Both companies said privacy and preventing governments from using the system to compile data on citizens was a primary goal "

"The Apple-Google decision to not allow GPS data collection with their contact tracing system will require public health authorities that want to access GPS location to rely on what Apple and Google have described as unstable, battery-draining workarounds.


Alternatives likely would miss some encounters because iPhones and Android devices turn off Bluetooth connections after some time for battery-saving and other reasons unless users remember to re-activate them."

 

[peteblue]

Wish I knew what blood type I was.

Blue, like the rest of us on here.....

 

[peteblue]

Happy chap......

 

[LinekersLegs]

Wish I knew what blood type I was.

How you and the rest of the family doing, asymptotic still hopefully x

 

[roydo]

Wish I knew what blood type I was.

I am A.

Mainly Alcohol.

 

[COYBL25]

Work in photography sector mate

Can you send @carlos21 some nice pics of girls please

 

[peteblue]

I am A.

Mainly Alcohol.

If that’s what the A stands for then I’m AAA+++.....

 

[COYBL25]

MMA ?

No MDMA lol

 

[Goat]

How you and the rest of the family doing, asymptotic still hopefully x

All good so far sis.

I just rang my mar she said im blood type O, she also said to stop reading rubbish on the internet.

 

[roydo]

All good so far sis.

I just rang my mar she said im blood type O, she also said to stop reading rubbish on the internet.

Hope you told her you were practising, like she told you to.

 

[LinekersLegs]

Not really - 3000 people across the entire UK is nowhere near enough (it works out as one tester per 21000 people); even if they all worked 9-5, worked solo, didn’t have lunch, managed to travel between appointments and conducted them all in an hour (and every client was at home when they are meant to be), handed their test kits in during their own time and none went sick you’d only get a maximum of 24000 visits a day.

Realistically managing half that would be really good going, and given the infection rate indicated by this app if this disease comes back properly is going to be in the low hundred thousands of possibles per day it should be clear they should be aiming for ten times that number doing visits (at least).

London itself needs probably around 5000 to 10000 people doing the visits, probably working seven am to eleven pm, seven days a week.

fwiw

California readies army of coronavirus detectives

California gears up to train thousands of state workers to trace the spread of the virus amid plans to re-open the state.

calmatters.org

National Association of County and City Health Officials estimate that the nation will need 30 contact tracers for every 100,000 Americans to handle the pandemic.

 

[Barnfred 55]

I never meant to post with the highlighted bit still there mate, thought I had undone it.

No worries.

I can understand why a lot of people don't trust the government.

However for me, everyone has a decision to make. To start coming out of lockdown we have to have an efficient TTI system in place. I don't think any reasonable person would argue with that. A mobile phone location tracing app will help with that, but to do so the data needs to be shared with the people who are carrying out the TTI efforts. I don't pretend to understand exactly how these things work, but apparently there needs to be a 60% take up of the app for it be work effectively. Now I have no idea if this is 60% of adults, or 60% of smart phone users. An effective app will help save lives as we strive to control the spread of the virus once lockdown restrictions are lifted/reduced.

The alternative is to stay in lockdown longer, presumably until an effective vaccine is produced. That of course brings other different, but just as significant risks.

 

[davek]

So if the government SAGE says ‘Wear a mask’ and ALTSAGE Says ‘don’t wear a mask’, what will you do and will having differing scientific advice really help ?......personally I would have a quiet word in Sir David Kings ear and tell him that if he causes public confusion then he will be charged with Sedition......

But the bought and paid for political whores of official SAGE have already distanced themselves from mask wearing, so your point is moot.