My July unemployment money has been put in to some bank account by my accountant using some one else's IBAN FFS
Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!
- Thread starter bullybeef
- Start date
- Status
A number of things: integrity of my work, quality of the resource, lack of ownership of my expertise and content.
Certainly when I was at University the faculty would've been considered the content owner (in spite of copyright laws) and would as such control the curriculum.
I suppose I could envisage a situation where course content pre-recorded by one lecturer could be used multiple times across a number of years rather than maintain a contract with that lecturer.
Seemingly not an issue though.
Tea_drinker
Player Valuation: £15m
Lectures have been recorded and put online for students for a few years now. At the lecturers discretion I believe. But with so many phones in big lecture theatres that's by the by.
Interesting. I expect had this been the norm when I was a student, there would've been a significant amount of resistance.
davek
Player Valuation: £150m
File under the proletarianization of academia.
Tea_drinker
Player Valuation: £15m
The university unions are constantly fighting. Over recent times there has been more and more lecturers from abroad who happy for the cash dont join the unions.
Catfish Blues
Player Valuation: £15m
They all had COVID on their death certificate, so the doctor who filled in that certificate considered it to be either a primary or a secondary cause of death. When doctors are filling in death certificates, they're not overly concerned about when they had COVID, just if it contributed to their death.
The positive to take from the fact that ~210 people were identified as having died as a result of COVID that week is that it means roughly 30 people a day died from COVID. As the daily numbers coming out now are roughly twice that number, which mean they're an overestimate ( that's the positive btw, not the actual deaths ) because, in England, they do include people who had COVID at some time in the past, regardless of whether or not it was a cause of death.
This is why Hancock was all over this a couple of weeks ago and ordered an "urgent" review. Obviously he didn't feel the need to have such a review when deaths were at their peak and, based on excess deaths and COVID certifications, the headline figures were badly underestimating the numbers, but such is life.
Catfish Blues
Player Valuation: £15m
Fair dos if you're willing to pay the extra for having a "Made In Britain" badge would probably mean, but most people are very price sensitive. Buying British to support British workers is no bad thing, but it does sound like the sort of thing that Farage would say.
Tea_drinker
Player Valuation: £15m
Brexit philosophy in a nutshell.
I expected it to be a bigger debate. It seems to be relegated to a shrug.
It does tend to follow that price and convenience determine consumer behaviors, not origin of product.
Kenshin
Player Valuation: £40m
I still think that died with covid and died of covid haven't been divided appropriately. It removes the point that many people dying in hospital were there for another serious reason, which then reflects on the much higher numbers.
It still doesn't take away from how many have died of covid at all, we know that number is high, we are talking thousands and thousands and that is why things aren't magically back to normal because the number has dropped.
The only thing that isn't talked about now is that where you can say for example 30 people died a day and the focus still being on covid-19 for obvious reasons. It removes how many more die every day via preventable illnesses. A quick Google gives me 2017 results saying on average 387 a day die from preventable illnesses.
By all means right now we are focused on one thing and have to be to ensure those numbers don't increase again. When are we allowed to talk about other preventable deaths? Because they are relevant when you talk about people dying surely? Especially when 10 times as many occur on average in comparison. It doesn't mean we forget about covid-19, just have a broader perspective in regards to things.
Catfish Blues
Player Valuation: £15m
Oh aye, that's very true.
If we knew we could open up society and, via whatever means, keep COVID deaths at a couple of hundred per week, then those deaths, at a national level as opposed to a personal level, would get lost in the noise of 550 to 600k deaths a year.
But, to get to that point we need treatments, probably of broadly two kinds. One which can save the vast majority of people getting hospitalised who are currently dying, and another to treat people before they need hospitalising ( to ensure we have enough beds and staff to cope with both COVID and day to day stuff ).
Until we get those, and/or a safe, efficient vaccine, then some restrictions will be needed, and the above focuses purely on deaths and ignores non-fatal life changing complications.
Check out Coursera for Campus. Basically let's schools augment their tuition with online material from more celebrated academics/schools. That's been going about a year now, and I could very much see a situation where superstars in a field earn a lot, with the rest struggling.
carlos21
KING OF REP
Yo Marnie how are you doing today.
- Status