General Coronavirus chit chat thread - non-travel specific

[Quickstatus]

Agranulocytosis, aplastic anaemia.

 

[Pushka]

Agranulocytosis

Ah. So that's why I have blood tests every 6 months and another batch just recently. Passed with flying colours as of last Monday. The blood test was the week before and I still have a 3cm bruise to show for it. I sometimes look like a druggie.

 

[Quickstatus]

Ah. So that's why I have blood tests every 6 months and another batch just recently.

Coooooorect

 

[I love to travel]

Quinine can also be very damaging to your ears. I personally won't take it unless I am going to die.

 

[tgh]

I personally won't take it unless I am going to die.

sorry….just can't see the point in that situation….

 

[VPS]

Who remembers the Two Fat Ladies - I think the quinine damaged more than her ears

The daughter of a surgeon to the royal family, Dickson-Wright spoke unflinchingly about her past. She famously blew a £2million inheritance, drank so much gin and tonic so gave herself quinine poisoning from the tonic, and was so drunk in the early Eighties that she missed the Falklands War

 

[VPS]

How did it turn out?

So went to two shops today and no flour let alone brown flour FFS. I couldn't be bothered going to a third shop so the soda bread will have to wait.

 

[I love to travel]

I personally won't take it unless I am going to die.

sorry….just can't see the point in that situation….

You know what I meant

 

[Pushka]

Quinine can also be very damaging to your ears. I personally won't take it unless I am going to die.

If you are taking it for lupus then likely you'd take it then.

 

[Flashback]

It seems some countries have moved to close schools, except for children of essential workers - health care, fire, police, etc. That seems like a potential solution to the current debate around the issue in Australia.

I've found that the kids still going to school here, are not so much for learning, but more so like a managed childcare type situation.

Quinine can also be very damaging to your ears. I personally won't take it unless I am going to die.

Who remembers the Two Fat Ladies - I think the quinine damaged more than her ears

The daughter of a surgeon to the royal family, Dickson-Wright spoke unflinchingly about her past. She famously blew a £2million inheritance, drank so much gin and tonic so gave herself quinine poisoning from the tonic, and was so drunk in the early Eighties that she missed the Falklands War

Ah..... beat me to it, was going to say I thought it was part of a good G&T. Don't drink up, people!

 

[SOPOOR]

i was at my local gym yesterday and got me thinking, and a genuinely concerend

- been reading about the half life of the virus on plastics/metals/etc, its anythign between 1-3 days, i see some people disinfecting suprmarket trolleys, eftpos machines, but surely if there was an infected person around, everything they touch has the virus on it, people touch door handles, hand rails, car doors, tables, supermarket shelves, etc, there is no way you can disinfect every surface that is touched, how have we not had 100,000 infections already?

- if im continuously wiping stuff with teh same cloth, arent I just moving the virus germs around from one surface to another?

-if someone infected is walking around in an enclosed area, does everyone who comes near the person get the virus and essentially "infected" but the bodys immune system kills it or only the infected" people get sick

- im reading articles about the governement saying hair dressers etc. if they follow health procedure is fine, since the virus is airborne wouldnt being face to face with a hairdresser be as dangerous as can be if there is an infected person?

- a lot of people are saying we have doubled infections in 3 days, at the same rate, we will have 5 million infected in a month (or there abouts), is this really possible?

 

[Quickstatus]

No bexause biological systems don’t follow exponential curves.

While it looks like exponential growth, it’s not.

Look up S curves or logistic function curves

 

[MEL_Traveller]

...but surely if there was an infected person around, everything they touch has the virus on it, people touch door handles, hand rails, car doors, tables, supermarket shelves, etc, there is no way you can disinfect every surface that is touched, how have we not had 100,000 infections already?

This is why you wash hands regularly - after touching any of the surfaces you mention, and you use sanitizer, and you don't touch your face.

Yes - you may come into contact with germs, but they also have to enter your body. You try and get rid of them before that.

 

[SOPOOR]

This is why you wash hands regularly - after touching any of the surfaces you mention, and you use sanitizer, and you don't touch your face.

Yes - you may come into contact with germs, but they also have to enter your body. You try and get rid of them before that.

Avoid touching eyes, nose and mouth
Why? Hands touch many surfaces and can pick up viruses. Once contaminated, hands can transfer the virus to your eyes, nose or mouth. From there, the virus can enter your body and can make you sick.

from WHO website
i just half answered my question

 

[Quickstatus]

Or:

 

[MEL_Traveller]

- im reading articles about the governement saying hair dressers etc. if they follow health procedure is fine, since the virus is airborne wouldnt being face to face with a hairdresser be as dangerous as can be if there is an infected person?

I didn't read this initially - but the virus is not airborne. Well - they have managed to make the virus airborne in a laboratory under strict conditions, but those conditions are likely to be extremely difficult to replicate in the 'real' world.

if it was airborne we'd be in far worse shape

 

[SOPOOR]

No bexause biological systems don’t follow exponential curves.

While it looks like exponential growth, it’s not.

Look up S curves or logistic function curves

have you got any links to S-Curve,
been googling and can only find S-Curve for economics and HIV and population growth, but nothing on viral infecion

 

[SOPOOR]

so vic and nsw are now on or about to be on lockdown for non essnetial services,,

- is the local grocery store or chinese grocery or conveience store considered as a super market?

- i assume that even if non essnetial services are closed, for example, having a tradie over to fix a tap, or going to a park to walk your dog, having a bbq as long as you keep social distance, or going to a friends house is still legal???

 

[drron]

Quite a few parody songs out there a lot titled We Didn't Start the virus.most pathetic but this one at leasts has a message and maybe could do with some air time.

 

[Denali]

And this one

https://www.facebook.com/1170307438/posts/10221670220122696