Coronavirus

[TheHowieLama]

1 hour ago, Spy Bee said:

The sun in Mexico and Brazil doesn't seem to be helping much. You're right though, there are many variables, I just stated the most likely two.

It is winter in Brazil

[Spy Bee]

That paper which suggested 0.4% R Rate has been taken apart here: 

 

[Spy Bee]

1 minute ago, TheHowieLama said:

It is winter in Brazil

Yeah, and circa 25 degrees.

[Bjornebye]

 

 

 

 

[SasaS]

Viruses spread by droplets are supposed to subside in warmer weather.

[TheHowieLama]

10 minutes ago, SasaS said:

Viruses spread by droplets are supposed to subside in warmer weather.

The droplets are supposed to have a shorter "shelf life" on surfaces in direct sun.

[Spy Bee]

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/05/t-cells-found-covid-19-patients-bode-well-long-term-immunity#

 

This is interesting. It shows that some people who have never had the virus have resistance to it. That would make the levels of infection required to have some kind of herd immunity (potentially much) lower.

[Brownie]

1 minute ago, Spy Bee said:

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/05/t-cells-found-covid-19-patients-bode-well-long-term-immunity#

 

This is interesting. It shows that some people who have never had the virus have resistance to it. That would make the levels of infection required to have some kind of herd immunity (potentially much) lower.

How can we be sure they've never had it though? Some people have it without any symptoms.

[Spy Bee]

4 minutes ago, Brownie said:

How can we be sure they've never had it though? Some people have it without any symptoms.

I believe because they don't have antibodies, but not 100% sure.

[SasaS]

19 minutes ago, Spy Bee said:

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/05/t-cells-found-covid-19-patients-bode-well-long-term-immunity#

 

This is interesting. It shows that some people who have never had the virus have resistance to it. That would make the levels of infection required to have some kind of herd immunity (potentially much) lower.

Isn't this what that professor you quoted recently from March and Irish Times said 2 months ago, when discussing the cruiser epidemic?

[Pureblood]

Face mask success.  Such a stark contrast to the murdering Tories. 

 

https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2020/05/slovakia-mask-coronavirus-pandemic-success/611545/

 

 

[Spy Bee]

6 minutes ago, SasaS said:

Isn't this what that professor you quoted recently from March and Irish Times said 2 months ago, when discussing the cruiser epidemic?

Yeah, but just more sciencey

[cloggypop]

54 minutes ago, SasaS said:

Viruses spread by droplets are supposed to subside in warmer weather.

Has anyone told it this yet? 

[Bjornebye]

1 minute ago, cloggypop said:

Has anyone told it this yet? 

Karen on Facebook the other day when it was sunny and her mate was having a BBQ 

[easytoslip]

2 hours ago, Spy Bee said:

The sun in Mexico and Brazil doesn't seem to be helping much. You're right though, there are many variables, I just stated the most likely two.

On the phone to the mate last night, he lives in Mexico, he said it hasn't been as bad as here in the UK and bars etc opening back up today apparently. 

[Bjornebye]

2 minutes ago, easytoslip said:

On the phone to the mate last night, he lives in Mexico, he said it hasn't been as bad as here in the UK and bars etc opening back up today apparently. 

Did he say how many severed heads rolled past his house as you spoke? 

[easytoslip]

Just now, Bjornebye said:

Did he say how many severed heads rolled past his house as you spoke? 

Haha, he lives in the hills so he probably has. 

[TheHowieLama]

Single men and women in the Netherlands are being advised to organise a seksbuddy (sex buddy) after criticism of rules dictating that home visitors maintain a 1.5-metre distance from their hosts during the coronavirus lockdown.

[Bjornebye]

7 minutes ago, TheHowieLama said:

Single men and women in the Netherlands are being advised to organise a seksbuddy (sex buddy) after criticism of rules dictating that home visitors maintain a 1.5-metre distance from their hosts during the coronavirus lockdown.

What a country 

[Anubis]

Siencey is the word of the week.

[TheHowieLama]

Just now, Anubis said:

Seksbuddy is the word of the week.

 

[Brownie]

Sheksh.

[Section_31]

53 minutes ago, easytoslip said:

On the phone to the mate last night, he lives in Mexico, he said it hasn't been as bad as here in the UK and bars etc opening back up today apparently. 

I always wonder how arsed people who live in places like Columbia and Mozambique are about a virus that probably kills about one in 100 people. Remember how nobody over here was arsed about Ebola until that Scottish  nurse got it like 15 times.

[easytoslip]

2 minutes ago, Section_31 said:

I always wonder how arsed people who live in places like Columbia and Mozambique are about a virus that probably kills about one in 100 people. Remember how nobody over here was arsed about Ebola until that Scottish  nurse got it like 15 times.

Probably not that much, didn't she fake it or something and ended up in court? 

[Section_31]

Just now, easytoslip said:

Probably not that much, didn't she fake it or something and ended up in court? 

No idea, was a good way to get a few days off though. Volunteer in Sierra Leone for a few days in an Ebola hotspot, come back and anytime the footy is on and it's a nice day just phone the boss and say you're feeling a wee bit groggy. 

 

"Yeah you definitely stay at home love we'll pick your emails up."