This was your reply to my asking Malcolm the question of what being of the Muslim faith had to do with Covid-19, to me it reads as a direct reply stating that being Muslim means multi age generations all under one roof, being socially ignorant and being unable to adhere to basic hygiene.
The risk to this group is the same as the risk to our very own Filipina’s which is vitamin D deficiency - more likely in the black, Asian and minority ethnic peoples. “Coronavirus: the evidence is mounting that Vitamin D makes a difference – and contributes to the Bame community’s vulnerability“ https://inews.co.uk/news/health/coronavirus-vitamin-d-bame-community-supplements-451140
Just back from visiting one of the local Wetherspoons to take Uncle Boris up on the governments offer to pay for half of all meals eaten out, as i understood it the Pub were supposed to ask for my contact details to enable track and trace to be carried out if required, Im sorry to say no such request was made to my wife or myself, how the heck are we supposed to overcome Covid 19 if guidelines are being ignored ?.
9pm. Lose a stone in 21 Days - Channel 4 Michael Moseley. Repeated on 4+1. Coronovirus busting programme.
It looks like Preston might implement some form of remedial lockdown. My postcode is a PR one despite being a fair distance from the city...
because deaths are now not all being called covid deaths. if someone is unlucky enough to be flattened under a bus--and the PM shows that covid was detected in the body--the person didnt die of covid. in other words--what most people have said all along.
Oh damn. I was hoping we were all getting super resilient to the effects of the virus. Or track and trace had become super efficient.
No it's if they didn't die quick enough, so if you got put on a ventilator at day 10 after being confirmed positive through a test, were on a ventilator for 40 days and you end up dying without ever waking up, now you didn't die of SARS-CoV-2. Yeah a few bus victims will get removed from the toll but a hell of a lot of people unlucky enough to suffer for a prolonged period of time before they passed away will also get removed. In all cases people died because their heart stopped, so we could say nobody dies of Covid. I think I would grant that someone who dies say 50 days after a positive test, without current Covid symptoms or complications probably died of something else, but if they died at 50 days after a test while still on oxygen support of any form then I pretty much think SARS-CoV-2 had a big role in their demise. (some acronyms are unfortunate I didn't realise Johnson took such a personal interest in Covid detection )
Well I've been feeling ill again over the weekend, had cold sweats, high temperature again, diarrhoea, sore stomach, can still taste everything but mouth tastes horrible, rapid pulse at odd times of day and this time my tonsils are swollen and sore, no cough 'yet' but it feels like one is coming and this time I have a rash quite bad that started on my arms and is now on my back and a little on my chest. So I felt bad enough last night to order a home test, I thought about the drive through but the way they word it has a tiny implication that there is a possibility of picking up the virus at a drive through test centre, so I thought no let's try the home test. Test was ordered at 19:52 last night and arrived this afternoon, washed my hands and opened the kit washed them again but probably not for 20 full seconds then opened up all the bits. First page of the manual says read these instructions before you open the test kit (I know they mean the swab) the second instruction is Wash your hands for 20 seconds before handling the test kit, which by the time you open the envelope is impossible. Then you have to register because they need the time you took the test and you have to get it back to a priority post box an hour before last post, the cross checking is good but one bit asks for a royal mail barcode but does not explain that is is on the return box so I'm looking everywhere for it and nothing is working, call 119 who ask me where I got the number, and then I realise the problem and find the barcode I need to use. So it is posted off, I don't feel too bad but lets see and just for fun they had not printed the flat number on my address Amazon Logistics delivered it and they had to call me to find out the flat number, so I said look I will open the external door for you so you can leave it at the door of the flat I am one floor up and the lassie says oh can we do number 14 as well, great just great, now I know that someone else in this building at the same time is alarmed enough about their symptoms to order a home Covid-19 test. One of the lads living in this building works in Morrisons and he's worked all through the lockdown adn I think he might be number 14 but luckily his windows are on the other side of the building from me and he is on the same floor so the likelihood of convection from a lower flat is low. Convection in a block of flats has been an issue in my mind as with the hot fairly still weather and windows open hot air could rise cling to the outside wall a bit and get caught in the angled open window (mine) above it, it's not beyond the bounds of possibility as a vector for the virus. So a 2 two day wait maybe for the result, the address it got posted to was in Scotland and they will notify me by email and SMS I expect.
No it's two floors about 20 flats long corridors but the one I come in and out of has had the windows open for months, the corridor I mean. My windows only open at the top on a swing out basis the opening is only about 1 foot high maybe a fraction more. The issue for me is that when the air is still outside the air is going to vent from the downstairs neighbour and and likely form vortices that hug the outside wall of the building so there is a fair chance of some air from downstairs migrating from the neighbour below because my open windows will catch it suck it in while my hot air vents from the top. There are vents in the ceiling in the kitchen and bathroom that probably vent into the roof space so backflow through those, maybe, wouldn't that be great I'm not sure the roof space is well vented.
