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Re: Coronavirus
« Reply #1725 on: April 25, 2020, 08:17:53 AM »
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« Reply #1726 on: April 25, 2020, 09:38:24 PM »

https://unherd.com/thepost/imperials-prof-neil-ferguson-responds-to-the-swedish-critique/

Unherd interview with Prof Neil Ferguson - partly as a follow up to the interview with  Johan Giesecke posted a couple of days ago.
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Re: Coronavirus
« Reply #1727 on: April 26, 2020, 01:59:30 PM »
If you want to assess your personal mortality risk based on age and other health conditions :

https://www.coronavirusrisk.org/risk-calculator/

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Re: Coronavirus
« Reply #1728 on: April 26, 2020, 02:39:27 PM »
My friend is being moved to the High Dependency Unit this afternoon.

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Re: Coronavirus
« Reply #1729 on: April 26, 2020, 04:30:23 PM »
On my daily walks, seeing as you can't do much else apart from go to work and stay at home I've started Geocaching. Maybe a rucksack with a few sneeky beers. Quite fun but a lot of them are quite hard to find, but that's the point I suppose.
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Re: Coronavirus
« Reply #1730 on: April 26, 2020, 08:24:11 PM »
On my daily walks, seeing as you can't do much else apart from go to work and stay at home I've started Geocaching. Maybe a rucksack with a few sneeky beers. Quite fun but a lot of them are quite hard to find, but that's the point I suppose.
I used to do a lot of geocaching. Maybe I’ll take it up again during lockdown.
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Re: Coronavirus
« Reply #1731 on: April 27, 2020, 12:45:10 PM »
 My quarantine hair clippers have arrived in the post (at last). Oddly they have introduced me to a new word as part of its contents

Lecythus: a cylindrical or round and squat vase used by the ancient Greeks for oils and ointments.


It doesn't actually contain such a thing but a modernised idea of it.


ETA: I can't swear that I didn't come across it in ancient Greek at some time but never seen it used in English.
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Re: Coronavirus
« Reply #1732 on: April 27, 2020, 01:36:34 PM »
I have been using hair clippers on our hair for a good number of years, it saves us having to go to the hairdresser/barber. I like my hair very short. Our middle girl has bought clippers too since the lockdown, her husband tried them out on her hair rather unsuccessfully, so I gather, she is now wearing a hat until her hair grows back again. WHOOPS!
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Re: Coronavirus
« Reply #1733 on: April 27, 2020, 11:41:54 PM »
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/apr/27/gaps-sage-scientific-body-scientists-medical?CM

Yet more proof, if proof were needed, of the complete and utter bollocks that the government is making of this crisis.
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Re: Coronavirus
« Reply #1734 on: April 28, 2020, 03:20:45 PM »
We're all in this together. But it's a lot easier to be in this together, if you've got a nice house, a couple of acres of land and plenty of money.

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Re: Coronavirus
« Reply #1735 on: April 28, 2020, 04:55:18 PM »
The hair clippers on sale in Boots the Chemist and other electrical goods shops sell these hair clippers along with combs set at various lengths 12mm, 18mm, 25mm and other measurements that can be affixed to the clippers very easily and they take virtually no skill to attach or use.

Once you have chosen the length comb you're happy with start clipping away all over your head from every angle you can think of with that comb, of the appropriate length, you've chosen attached to your clippers until you can hear and see the clippers are no longer cutting any more hair from your head you're done.

All you need now is to take the comb off of the clippers and then sit down on a convenient chair and get a trusted friend to trim all around the back of your head for you with the now, combless clippers, all the bits you can't get to.

These clippers my ones are Remington's clippers from Boots and the combs I've been referring to come with the clippers and when you see them it becomes obvious how to attach them, they're quiet simple to use, I've cut my own hair for years and have obviously set the trend in hair style around here for years too, my wife does all of the trimming for me after I've done my top knot.

I must check where my shares in Remington are at the moment.

Seriously I go for a short all over nice and tidy and doesn't dangle in the eyes haircut, why pay, I don't know know, say £20 when you can buy a pair of these clippers for somewhere around £10 to £15 and after two or three haircuts you've got your money back, no sitting around waiting your turn.

Hope this is a help for some of you and all the best, ippy.     

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Re: Coronavirus
« Reply #1736 on: April 28, 2020, 04:57:38 PM »
I find the Wahl clippers are the best ones.
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« Reply #1737 on: April 28, 2020, 05:17:55 PM »
I cut my own barnet and facial hair using clippers. Easy peasy. Just set it to the shortest setting and Bob's your uncle. 15 minute job. I think it's a Remington, can't remember now, but it's got titanium teeth and you don't need to sharpen them or oil them.
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« Reply #1738 on: April 28, 2020, 09:34:26 PM »
My friend has had the tracheostomy removed  and had first solid food in 3 and a half weeks. Plan is to move her from the High Dependency Unit to normal ward in 2 days. Dancing round the room.

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Re: Coronavirus
« Reply #1739 on: April 29, 2020, 08:19:47 AM »
Yay  :)  :)

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« Reply #1740 on: April 29, 2020, 08:40:52 AM »
The hair clippers on sale in Boots the Chemist and other electrical goods shops sell these hair clippers along with combs...
Seriously I go for a short all over nice and tidy and doesn't dangle in the eyes haircut, why pay, I don't know know, say £20 when you can buy a pair of these clippers for somewhere around £10 to £15 and after two or three haircuts you've got your money back, no sitting around waiting your turn.
Exactly. You can also get a 1.5" comb, I even got a 2" one shipped from the US.

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Re: Coronavirus
« Reply #1741 on: April 30, 2020, 01:38:12 PM »
And my friend is being moved to normal respiratory ward this afternoon


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« Reply #1743 on: May 01, 2020, 03:21:24 PM »
I see that idiot, David Icke, has been removed from Facebook, for making false statements about Covid-19.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-52501453
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Before we work on Artificial Intelligence shouldn't we address the problem of natural stupidity.

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« Reply #1745 on: May 01, 2020, 04:30:54 PM »
I see that idiot, David Icke, has been removed from Facebook, for making false statements about Covid-19.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-52501453
Mentally ill, I think, rather than idiotic.
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« Reply #1746 on: May 01, 2020, 05:02:15 PM »
Mentally ill, I think, rather than idiotic.

That is possible. It is even sadder some people actually believe the garbage he spouts!  :o
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« Reply #1747 on: May 01, 2020, 05:13:25 PM »
Mentally ill, I think, rather than idiotic.
He makes a living out it.

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Re: Coronavirus
« Reply #1749 on: May 02, 2020, 10:05:30 AM »
.....and another one .....  https://tinyurl.com/ya2g98lu