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I’ve been working on it, got it down by six hours now.

Just had a parcel delivered that was a belated birthday gift from the grandkids, a lego kit of the millennium falcon. Should keep me busy and out of trouble for a while.

It's the same with stars, chemtrails undoubtedly.

Infectious disease specialist Michael Osterholm likened it to planting crops, you can't speed it up. There are no safe shortcuts, our only hope for now are antivirals and currently approved drugs that can lessen the effects.

Just buy a set of ice cream van chimes and have them fitted to your car, drive around different estates early evening. Much more fun.

Factors associated with hospitalization and critical illness among 4,103 patients with COVID-19 disease in New York City cross-sectional analysis of all patients with laboratory-confirmed Covid-19 treated at a single academic health system in New York City between March 1, 2020 and April 2, 2020, with follow up through April 7, 2020. Primary outcomes were hospitalization and critical illness (intensive care, mechanical ventilation, hospice and/or death). https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.08.20057794v1 Many people in their 50s and over are more than aware of their shortcomings when it comes to their health, they just chose to ignore it, postpone any kind of improvement or lived with it and medicated conditions. This virus has forced a lot of people to face the inconvenient truth. There's a chance that if they get this they could suffer a lot more because of those issues. With anxiety through the roof at the moment is it any wonder people of a certain age are worrying. What concerns people more than anything else isn't a thought that this thing could kill them, what concerns them is that if they get this at the wrong time that there probably won't be a health service there for them as it will be totally overloaded or they might not fit the criteria at that moment to receive treatment.

A total of 1,999 patients were hospitalised after their symptoms got worse. The researchers found is that 'in the decision tree for admission, the most important features were being over 65 and obesity.' The authors said they were 'surprised' that 'cancer and lung disease did not feature more prominently in the risk models'. The study has been posted on archive site medRxiv and not in a journal as the research has yet to be peer-reviewed — the process in which other academics scrutinise research. It also found that just 5 per cent of coronavirus hospitalisations were current smokers. This is three times as low as the 15.5 per cent of smokers in New York City. Tobacco use has been earmarked as a potential risk factor for coronavirus patients falling seriously ill after analysing outbreaks in China and Italy. But the New York study is not the first to find a low number of smokers in COVID-19 hospital admissions. One team of experts from Wuhan - where the pandemic began - were mystified after finding smokers were less likely to catch the deadly virus in the first place. It has prompted questions that cigarette users may be at lower risk. Writing in the study, the authors said: 'Surprisingly, though some have speculated that high rates of smoking in China explained some of the morbidity in those patients, we did not find smoking status to be associated with increased risk of hospitalization or critical illness.' In a separate paper, researchers at NYU Langone Health highlighted obesity as the main driver behind patients under 60 needing hospital care. The report, which was published in the journal Clinical Infectious Diseases, looked at the records of 3,615 patients who tested positive between March 4 and April 4. It found those with a BMI of more than 30 were almost twice as likely to be admitted to the hospital for acute and critical care. 'Unfortunately, obesity in people [under 60] is a newly identified epidemiologic risk factor, which may contribute to increased morbidity rates experienced in the US,' the researchers wrote in the study. https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.08.20057794v1

Love this and been counting the days down until it's released. Will be carefully rationing myself to one episode a night, although that's going to be difficult to do.

Barry Cryer won't be happy, he's not dead!

The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, 8/10. I'm not a big fan of the Coen brothers, except Fargo of course. Enjoyed the stories a lot.

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Fixed that.

Looking at the government response to this virus, I'd say it's just beginning.

Comedian Tim Brooke-Taylor has died at the age of 79 with coronavirus, his agent has confirmed to the BBC. The entertainer, best known for The Goodies and I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue, died on Sunday. Fellow Goodie star Graeme Garden said he was "terribly saddened by the loss of a dear colleague and close friend of over 50 years". "He was a funny, sociable, generous man who was a delight to work with," Garden said.

Coronavirus could attack immune system like HIV by targeting protective cells, warn scientists Researchers in China and the US find that the virus that causes Covid-19 can destroy the T cells that are supposed to protect the body from harmful invaders One doctor said concern is growing in medical circles that effect could be similar to HIV But there was one major difference between Sars-CoV-2 and HIV, according to the new study. HIV can replicate in the T cells and turn them into factories to generate more copies to infect other cells. But Lu and Jiang did not observe any growth of the coronavirus after it entered the T-cells, suggesting that the virus and T-cells might end up dying together. The study gives rise to some new questions. For instance, the coronavirus can exist for weeks on some patients without causing any symptoms. How it interacted with the T cells in these patients remained unclear. Some critically ill patients also experienced cytokine storms, where the immune system overreacts and attacks healthy cells. But why and how the coronavirus triggers that remains poorly understood. https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/3079443/coronavirus-could-target-immune-system-targeting-protective https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32231345