Corona Virus

[Middy]

If Chris @The Computer Audiophile feel's this is appropriate to post here for members to talk specifically about issues, concerns, thoughts, well wishes or anything people wish to discuss.

 

We are all going to be affected as human beings with this virus, as a distant concern to hard reality for our world wide community.

Our friends, family, comunities, job's and the least of it all our hobby that makes up this little community. 

 

Whatever the future landscape, a little moral support from like minded people doesnt go a miss.

 

There are kind and knowledgeable people on AS.

 

For my part i hope you and those who matter stay safe and good luck over the coming year..

 

Sincere regards

 

David

 

 

 

[The Computer Audiophile]

Hi David, thanks for the post. It’s a crazy time and it’s nice to have a global community of friends to lean on about now. 
 

Stay healthy. 

[Allan F]

Hopefully, it should not be necessary to remind everyone that the only way to achieve the desired flattening curve essential for our health care systems to be able to cope with the virus is for all of us to co-operate and follow the directions of our health and governmental authorities, including and especially the practice of social distancing at all possible times. 

[The Computer Audiophile]

33 minutes ago, Allan F said:

Hopefully, it should not be necessary to remind everyone that the only way to achieve the desired flattening curve essential for our health care systems to be able to cope with the virus is for all of us to co-operate and follow the directions of our health and governmental authorities, including and especially the practice of social distancing at all possible times. 

Time to sit back, relax, and turn up the volume for a bit. 

[AudioDoctor]

The volume that has been turned up here belongs to two girls aged 6 and 8...

 

haha

[The Computer Audiophile]

1 minute ago, AudioDoctor said:

The volume that has been turned up here belongs to two girls aged 6 and 8...

 

haha

Tomorrow I resume my temporary, at home, Google Classroom, second grade teaching gig. I forgot how good I had it during the day :~)

[Allan F]

35 minutes ago, The Computer Audiophile said:

Time to sit back, relax, and turn up the volume for a bit. 

 

Relax, mellow out and not worry to be sure. But never to relax our vigilance. 🙂

[AudioDoctor]

56 minutes ago, The Computer Audiophile said:

Tomorrow I resume my temporary, at home, Google Classroom, second grade teaching gig. I forgot how good I had it during the day :~)

 

Ha, same!

 

[fas42]

Personally, I'm going fanatical about knocking off the bugs if there is a possibility that I've touched a surface that was previously touched by someone who may have the virus. That means, strictly following the guidelines for how long the virus is viable on particular surfaces, and always decontaminating anything that we need to touch earlier than that, for more immediate use; using soap and water, or an alcohol product.

 

That means, for example, taking the whole shopping thing extremely seriously - every item brought home is considered to be coated with 'wet paint', so to speak.

[Middy]

My wife is a manager in a supermarket, no such thing as social distancing when grabbing loo roll in the UK,  i did barrier nursing and worked on the infectious diseases ward in a past life as a student.. Governments to your own home is a balancing act of keeping things going verse risk (infrastructure). For us its a 'when' as she is in public contact but in general we are fit and healthy. My company its half home half in, making aerospace parts. 

Epidemiologists must be pulling thier hair out ATM.  Too much to mention.. 

 

But feel free to say hi or ask questions, let concerns out here or something to smile about. 

 

[Solstice380]

8 hours ago, AudioDoctor said:

The volume that has been turned up here belongs to two girls aged 6 and 8...

 

haha

 

Welcome to the family!

 

Heard a good one...

 

"With all of the sporting events cancelled I was wandering around the house and found a woman on my couch.  She seems nice." 🤪

[sphinxsix]

51 minutes ago, Solstice380 said:

 

Welcome to the family!

 

Heard a good one...

 

"With all of the sporting events cancelled I was wandering around the house and found a woman on my couch.  She seems nice." 🤪

 

Like they say - many future quaranteens are or may soon be on their way..

[DuckToller]

2 hours ago, Middy said:

My wife is a manager in a supermarket, no such thing as social distancing when grabbing loo roll in the UK,  i did barrier nursing and worked on the infectious diseases ward in a past life as a student.. Governments to your own home is a balancing act of keeping things going verse risk (infrastructure). For us its a 'when' as she is in public contact but in general we are fit and healthy. My company its half home half in, making aerospace parts. 

Epidemiologists must be pulling thier hair out ATM.  Too much to mention.. 

 

But feel free to say hi or ask questions, let concerns out here or something to smile about. 

 

Middy,

I assume you are on British side of Europe. I have made my experience with NHS service when attending Newcastle Business School a quarter of a century ago. As an effect from a lack of expertise and service by a med,  I found myself with 41°c fever on the floor of my gf's appartment, receiving a full body Vodka massage to lower he temperature,by her and our Estonian girl friend, who had suggested this old recipe from her grandma. 

The next doc I saw some hours later had a good laugh on the story (to explain my "personal" smell) and gave me the correct dosed antibiotics I needed with that terrible angina, which was correctly diagnosed but wrongly treated by his collegue a week before.

My thoughts are with you and your family as I think that UK should asap request help from the EU as a manouvre to as an attempt to counter engine  the health service catastrophe the experts expect to come. However, I fear the strategists in No.10  won't do that and it will need much more time to administer British engineering skills efficently into the healthcare industry than is left to let this move have an deceicive impact on the situation. I hope very much that I am wrong with that assumption.

Stay Safe and Sound, DT

[DuckToller]

I interrupt the COVID-19 pandemic to bring you my latest episode.......
So I’ve just been to the supermarket to buy a bag of food for my dog.(see avatar)
Already in line, a woman behind me asked me if I had a dog.
I stared at her (those who know me will imagine my gaze ) ...but then why would I be buying dog food...right?
So on impulse I told her no, that I didn’t have a dog, that I was starting the dog food diet again, and that I probably shouldn't because I ended up in the hospital the last time, but i did weigh 4 kilos less!
I told her that it was the perfect diet and that all you had to do is carry a few biscuits in your pocket and eat one or two every time you feel hungry (I have to mention that practically everyone in line was interested in my story).
Frightened, the woman asks me if I ended up in the hospital because the dog food had poisoned me. I answered...of course not!
I was admitted because I bent down to sniff the bum of a German Shepherd and I was hit by a truck
I thought the man behind her was going to have a heart attack...he was laughing so hard!
...Let’s continue promoting reading!

[sphinxsix]

I must admit that as far as COVID-19 is regarded, I'm mostly an objectivist 

Some statistics updated daily and the curves we must flatten:

 

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/

 

 

[Allan F]

Gable of the Globe & Mail

 

[sandyk]

10 hours ago, Solstice380 said:

"With all of the sporting events cancelled I was wandering around the house and found a woman on my couch.  She seems nice." 🤪

 Seems that many are destined to find out the same, as even the Sporting Events Downunder that many from the USA were apparently watching in the absence of local sports, have now been cancelled too, with even Sydney pretty well quarantined now as well, although with schools still open, but parents advised to keep their kids at home if they are able to do so safely.

 It has also been suggested that our Internet speeds will soon drop back to 1990 speeds due to massive congestion with many now isolated at home.

[sandyk]

A little light relief.

[Middy]

Stay safe Sandy, if the internet breaks we have the shed, garage or just good old fashioned glaring at family members.

 

Please stay safe all, thanks for the replies. Its keeping me going..

 

Dave

 

 

 

 

[sandyk]

18 hours ago, fas42 said:

That means, for example, taking the whole shopping thing extremely seriously - every item brought home is considered to be coated with 'wet paint', so to speak.

 

 That should also include the bags used for deliveries from the Supermarket,  even when they are left at the front door .

You should wash your hands after unpacking,  and putting away the bags for return with the next delivery. 

[fas42]

10 hours ago, DuckToller said:

I interrupt the COVID-19 pandemic to bring you my latest episode.......
So I’ve just been to the supermarket to buy a bag of food for my dog.(see avatar)
Already in line, a woman behind me asked me if I had a dog.

 

Which sorta reminded me,

 

 

[sphinxsix]

[Bob Stern]

2 hours ago, sandyk said:

 That should also include the bags used for deliveries from the Supermarket,  even when they are left at the front door .

You should wash your hands after unpacking,  and putting away the bags for return with the next delivery. 

 

Paper bags may be preferable to plastic bags because the virus population declines twice as fast on the former.

[sandyk]

14 minutes ago, Bob Stern said:

 

Paper bags may be preferable to plastic bags because the virus population declines twice as fast on the former.

 

Agreed. They should never phased out paper bags which were often quite strong. Perhaps they did that originally due to environmental groups complaining about the cutting down of trees ?

However, we didn't have as much packaged frozen food back then.

The " string bags" used years ago were also quite cheap and ideal for most fruit and Vegetables.

[Allan F]

18 hours ago, Bob Stern said:

Paper bags may be preferable to plastic bags because the virus population declines twice as fast on the former.