Todays - What grinds my gears *ARCHIVE*

[wr6133]

[Riejufixing]

How the hell am I supposed to find a job (any job) in all this lot!

[Howling Terror]

NHS are hiring.
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[bhinso]

Andrex has been overrun with demand too

[Riejufixing]

[wr6133]

[The Shaggy D.A.]

A lot of my mates are (a) not key workers or (b) retired, so don't or can't work from home. They post about doing all the odd jobs they never got around to doing, cleaning/reorganising their workshops and garages, sitting in the sun with a beer in one hand an Autosol in the other.

I'm a key worker and can work from home, with the odd jaunt into the office for hardware poking, so am still full time. And the weather's finally nice.

Bet it rains at the weekend.
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[bhinso]

Prison is starting to look like a viable option.

Free board and lodging, plus all the bog roll you can wipe with.

Wonder if I can get locked up for something mild, like a hate non crime.

[Islander]

[Riejufixing]

[recman]

How the fud can Asda only charge £1.02 for a litre of unleaded but Tesco want £1.18?
Robbing bastids.

[Tankie]

You want to live where I am on an island, here prices are always much higher, drive off onto the mainland for eight minutes,Sittingbourne, super rock bottom prices. Nuts!
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[hellkat]

My rant wasn't ironic, TSK
Any hilarity ended last night.
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[Kawasaki Jimbo]

[Bhud]

The anger is understandable due to the fact that the govt hasn't been explaining anything at all (they think we're idiots so they don't bother even trying).

I've been trying to make head or tail out of this business, and I've come to certain conclusions. First, medical science doesn't help to explain the risk and spread of the virus, because it doesn't have specific knowledge about the virus. Second, the govt used first one strategic model, and then (recently) switched to another. The one we have currently is the one that should have been adopted from the start. The switch from one strategic model to another is a valid and understandable cause for distrust and confusion, because the govt has yet to admit it made a mistake in its initial response.

Without blathering on in a thousand words, the model Boris is now using (which is behind this lockdown) is based on statistics and an understanding of the kurtosis behaviour of multiplicative virus epidemics. There's no reason it shouldn't work if the lockdown is actually observed for 1 month. With unknown infectious virus pandemics, mean sample data is completely useless (other than in a journalistic sense) because sample data is never the true data. One guy could infect 3 people, who show no symptoms, who each infect 20 others, 35% of whom show symptoms, etc. Plotting the curve is way too complex (requires massive data sets - 10 log 13 has been bandied around) which is why upper infection limits are being quoted by Boris, as well as the specific timeframe for review. The Gaussian curve over time doesn't resemble normal distribution but is a sort of recurve - and most activity will spike around a peak virus point. Most cases will occur on either side of that peak, in a very short period of time, like a 3-sigma within a 3-sigma. This could easily become a completely unmanageable situation, so the strategy with the lockdown is to spread it out a bit. It's a peak, we all know it's coming, but we don't want to be peaky lol.

In short, the virus can come and do its damage to public health, but if the damage can be spread out over time, the effect of the virus will not be as damaging to public health (and all the social, economic, administrative, logistical supplies systems) as it would otherwise be.

[Tankie]

I would like to say i don't think the whole truth is being told ,but i think we are now been told to go in the right direction,be patent ,especially if your in one of the hot spots.
I'm just going to sit it out
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[recman]

[hellkat]

[The Shaggy D.A.]

[Freddyfruitba...]

[Tankie]

Super , what a good result.
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[bhinso]

Sort of puts the Corona panic into perspective.

[hellkat]

[Clanger]

[Riejufixing]

I have been picking stinging-nettle tops.

It seems that nitrile gloves are not thick enough to stop the stings

The pads on the tips of my fingers are giving very strange sensations.