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| paulca:
--- Quote from: tom66 on June 29, 2020, 12:37:04 pm ---Tests already exist that can give a positive result within 10 minutes, so it is believably practical to do that at the airport and allow tourists back into the country cautiously. --- End quote --- I think the downside with those 10 minute tests is they are single test machines. So to test a single 747 with 350 passengers... unless you have dozens of machines, it might take some time. Expanding those numbers out hypothetically. If you had 100 machines, it would take roughly 35-40 minutes to test a flight. More like an hour. Large airports land 747s every 5 minutes. |
| paulca:
I believe we need to move to localising restrictions. Each borough or area has it's own status level. From LOW with 1m distancing, pubs and clubs open to HIGH, total lockdown. These can be broadcast on local radio stations during the news. Reports like: "West Cumbria has issued a Covid-19 warning and status of MEDIUM today after a surge of 112 cases in the last 2 days. People are advised not to travel to or from West Cumbria and full 2m social distancing is in effect. Hospitality is closed. " etc. etc. We can also stop saying "The UK has lost control". It's quite clear it is only England (and possibly Wales) who have lost control. Scotland, Northern Ireland and most of the isles have it under control, currently. |
| Nusa:
--- Quote from: paulca on June 29, 2020, 01:19:36 pm ---Large airports land 747s every 5 minutes. --- End quote --- That's all in the past, at least in passenger service. Most of the 747's still flying today only carry cargo, not passengers. The rest are mostly parked, and many will never see passenger service again. Most of the much newer and more efficient wide-body jets (like B777 or A380) are also parked. Expect narrow-body jets to carry passenger load between most points. It will take years, no joke, for the demand to return to previous levels. |
| paulca:
It's sort of depressing. With so much confusion going on in the Western world right now, particularly in the states and with the US and UK easing lock downs etc. It is easy to become complacent and think this is over. I haven't been looking at any of the data for a few weeks, but checking John Hopkins data this morning it looks like it's increasing again in daily cases. It could even go properly exponential again. The world daily new cases is accelerating as is the US and probably the UK/England. On vaccines. I have two competing thoughts. Coronaviruses are not new, most of the ones we know of cause a mild cold. Nobody has managed to cure or vacinate against the common cold yet. What are their chances of doing so now? The competing thoughts are that there is less incentive to cure the common cold that a coronavirus that kills 1%+ of people. So maybe with enough funding they will find one. The other two SARS/MERS outbreaks didn't produce a vaccine that I'm aware of, once they outbreaks went away funding was probably pulled. |
| GeorgeOfTheJungle:
--- Quote from: Nusa on June 29, 2020, 01:42:29 pm ---It will take years, no joke, for the demand to return to previous levels. --- End quote --- https://www.flightradar24.com/data/statistics |
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